The screen door slams, dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch as the plays Roy Orbison singing for the Hey, that's me and I want you Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself again Don't run back inside, darling, you know just I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young Show a little faith, there's in the night You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're Oh, and alright with me
You can hide 'neath your covers and study pain crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in For a savior to rise these streets Well now, I ain't no hero, understood All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this hood With a to make it good somehow Hey, else can we do now? Except roll down the window and let the wind blow your hair Well, the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us We got one last to make it real To trade in these wings on wheels Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the
Oh oh, come my hand We're riding out tonight to case the land Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Road Lying out there a killer in the sun Hey, I know late, we can make it if we run Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Sit tight, hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got guitar and I learned how to make it talk And my car's out if you're ready to take that long walk your front porch to my front seat The door's open but the ride free And I you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be
There were ghosts in the of all the boys you sent away They haunt this beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets They scream your at night in the street Your graduation gown lies in rags at their And in the lonely before dawn You hear their rolling on But when you get to the porch, they're on the wind So Mary, in It's a full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win