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Make It Better (Forget About Me)
"Make It Better (Forget About Me)" is a song written by Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David A. Stewart of the Eurythmics. It was released in June 1985 as the third single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album "Southern Accents".
Musically it is an uptempo number that pays tribute to the Memphis Soul style, with heavy emphasis on horns and funk-inspired rhythm guitar. The music video continues in the "Alice
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Lyrically, the song appears to be about a dominant female who nurses a broken heart of her lover as she sings "Let me kiss it and make it better/After tonight you will forget her". However, Lords later stated she initially wrote it about a drug addiction: "You will forget her" was always about "Forget your heroin." It was never about a person. When I wrote it, it didn't even cross my mind. But then, yeah, sure,