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