I am typing this, while listening to this song. When I started reading your story, I couldn't help but thinking of my scariest - but kind of beautiful in a way - moment in a car ever.
I was sitting in the back of an extremely old van with my twinsister and two dogs. We had no seatbelts and were sitting on wooden benches at the side/ along the length of the car. The van was driven by my sister's boyfriend, who was a drug addict and didn't have a driver's license. Next to him was a friend of his. Both guys where drunk and possibly on speed or another similar drug.
It all happened after they returned from what was supposed to be a coffee break. We got into an argument with them as my sister and I couldn't drive a car and they weren't in a state to drive one, but they didn't listen to us and started the car anyway, put the music on as loud as possible and drove off.
One of the songs that stood out was Tom Petty's free fallin'. We were in the Algarve, Portugal's beautiful coastal area. I thought this might be the last couple of minutes of my life as the guy behind the driving wheel was out of his mind. We got off the road once and on again and later we where driving close to the cliffs. We eventually got to an abrupt stop, as the roof-rack of the car got stuck under some kind of arcade above the read. The roof-rack and the bikes that where on top of the car fell off, the car stopped, we all got out and I started swearing in Portuguese:
"Fodes Caralho!"
It's now 6 years later and I'm still alive. It was the scariest moment of my life but I still love that song by Tom Petty.
Thanks for sharing your story and this great track!