The door slams, Mary's dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio Roy Orbison for the lonely Hey, that's me and I want you Don't turn me home again, I just face myself alone again Don't run inside, darling, you know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking that we ain't that young anymore Show a little faith, magic in the night You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're Oh, and that's with me
You can hide 'neath covers and study your pain Make crosses from lovers, throw roses in the rain your summer praying in vain For a to rise from these streets Well now, I ain't no hero, that's All the redemption I can offer, girl, is this dirty hood With a chance to make it good Hey, else can we do now? Except roll down the window and let the wind back your hair Well, the night's open, these two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it To trade in these on some wheels in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh, come take my riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Oh, Road, oh, Thunder Road Lying out like a killer in the sun Hey, I know late, we can make it if we run Oh oh oh oh, Road Sit tight, hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long From your front porch to my front The door's open but the ride ain't And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be
were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away They haunt this dusty beach in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets They scream your name at night in the Your graduation gown lies in at their feet And in the lonely cool before You hear their rolling on But you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind So Mary, in It's a town of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win