Watch video for unreleased Tom Petty song You Saw Me Comin'

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You Saw Me Comin' is from Finding Wildflowers, a collection of Tom Petty rarities included in the deluxe edition of last year's Wildflowers & All The Rest and now getting its own release

Tom Petty
Tom Petty in 1992 (Image credit: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images)

A video has been launched for You Saw Me Comin', a previously unreleased song from Tom Petty's Wildflower sessions. 

The track is a new addition to Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions), originally included in the deluxe edition release of last year's Wildflowers & All The Rest. Finding Wildflowers is now being released on its own on April 16 via Warner Records on CD and gold vinyl (official webstore and indie retailers only), with a black vinyl edition due on May 7. Pre-orders are available now. 

“There’s this kind of longing in the song, in the way that he wrote the chord structure, the melody and the lyrics," says Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench. "It’s wistful, and it would have been the perfect way to end the disc.”

The new video was directed by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild and Katie Malia, who match Petty's rather contemplative melody with some spectacular – and occasionally discombobulating – landscape footage.  

Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions) features 16 alternate takes, long cuts and jam versions of songs Petty worked on with band members and co-producer Rick Rubin in 1994. Full tracklist below.

Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions) tracklist:

1. A Higher Place
2. Hard on Me
3. Cabin Down Below
4. Crawling Back to You
5. Only a Broken Heart
6. Drivin' Down to Georgia
7. You Wreck Me
8. Its Good to Be King
9. House in the Woods
10. Honey Bee
11. Girl on LSD
12. Cabin Down Below (Acoustic Version)
13. Wildflowers
14. Don't Fade on Me
15. Wake Up Time
16. You Saw Me Comin'

Fraser Lewry
Fraser Lewry
Online Editor, Classic Rock

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 40 years in music industry, online for 27. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. Once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.