"Love Is a Long Road" is a song by Tom Petty from his 1989 first solo album Full Moon Fever.
[4][5] The rock song was co-written by guitarist Mike Campbell, who was inspired by a motorcycle he owned.
"[2] "Love Is a Long Road" appears on the 2000 double-disc compilation album Anthology: Through the Years, as well as on the 1995 box set Playback.
[1] Another one of Petty's late-1980s songs which looks back at a fractured romance, AllMusic describes the song as sounding like a stripped-down version of the Who's classics "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again", and one of the most powerful rockers on the album.
[2] In 2023, the song was used in the first trailer for the video game Grand Theft Auto VI.