The song’s intro features the stanza on repeat, spoken by what sounds like a computerized voice. In reality, Anderson’s voice was altered using a vocoder machine and then looped with a harmonizer.

Written by Petty, the song was first recorded as a demo with his band Mudcrutch in 1974. Later, though, as he was more established, Petty recorded it with his band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, ...