Mary Jane's Last Dance is a 1993 song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - written by Tom Petty and produced by Rick Rubin, Mike Campbell, and Petty - released on the Greatest Hits album on November 16, 1993. The track, a heartland rock song lasting 4 minutes and 35 seconds, was recorded during the Wildflowers era and marked the last Heartbreakers session with drummer Stan Lynch before his 1994 departure. It reached No 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks, with international highs including No 2 in Portugal, No 5 in Canada, and No 7 in Iceland. Lyrically it evokes an Indiana night with an Indiana girl, andPetty and Campbell have said the chorus adds a deeper, open-ended meaning that could be read as a drug reference or a goodbye love song; the song was originally titled Indiana Girl before the chorus was changed. The music video featuring Kim Basinger as a deceased woman won MTV's Best Male Video award in 1994, and the ending shows a haunting revival as she opens her eyes. There were later plagiarism rumors connected to Dani California, which Petty chose not to pursue.
