"Room at the Top" is the first track on the album ''

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'' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and the second single from the album. It reached number 19 on the ''Billboard''

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chart. The song is about

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and the end of Petty's first marriage. Petty described it as one of the most depressing songs in

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history, and so intensely personal for him that once the Echo tour was over, he refused to play it.

Charts

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