Tom Petty was really churning out albums in the late 70s and early 80s. His next album came out just a year after Hard Promises.
1982’s Long After Dark is the fifth straight Petty album to tread the same ground — short, muscular songs in what had become the Heartbreakers’ signature sound (I’ll borrow AllMusic.com’s The Byrds-meet-The Stones description again).
Long After Dark didn’t enjoy as much commercial or critical success as its two predecessors and perhaps signaled to Petty that it was time to shake things up. His next album (which I’ll write about a week from Monday) would take his craft to another level.
If much of Long After Dark was forgettable, it at least featured a terrific first single in ‘You Got Lucky.’ The stabbing synths were a departure for the band, and apparently a controversial one, but they work well in this tongue-lashing for a lover who isn’t fully invested in the relationship.
“Girl, if you can do better than me, then go,” Petty snarls wickedly. I love how he tells her she got lucky “when I found you” as opposed to when she found him. Don’t even give her credit for starting the relationship!
You better watch what you do to me
Don’t get carried away
Girl, if you can do better than me, go
Yeah go but remember
Good love is hard to find
Good love is hard to find
You got lucky babe
Yeah, you got lucky, babe
When I found you
You put a hand on my cheek
And then you turn your eyes away
If you don’t feel complete
If I don’t take you all of the way, go
Yeah go, but remember
Good love is hard to find
You got lucky babe
Yeah you got lucky
When I found you
Meet Me In Montauk 
This was another one in heavy rotation on MTV in the early days. Somehow I never cared for the synth, but like the rest of the song better. As Amy said, as much I like Petty’s early work (particularly looking back years later as opposed to at the time in the late 70’s/early 80’s), it is the mid 80’s and 90’s work that put him on another level for me (and I suspect for you as well)
I always liked this song, though certainly not as much as the great songs he’d record later.