“Time To Move On” by Tom Petty

"Time to Move On" comes from Wildflowers, Tom Petty's second solo album, from 1994, and it's a close cousin of that record's title track: the same easygoing folk-rock stroll, dressed up with a little orchestration. Its subject is life's long road and whatever that road throws at you, and it has drawn comparisons to Buffalo Springfield's "Go and Say Goodbye"; AllMusic rated it an overlooked high point of the album.

It was never much of a stage regular: Petty played it 60 times with the Heartbreakers and just once on his own. Streaming found it anyway. It's his seventh most-streamed solo song on Spotify, ahead of live staples such as "It's Good to Be King", and a concert take made it onto the 2020 box set Wildflowers & All the Rest.

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