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