Thunder Road

The screen door slams and Mary's dress waves

Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only

Don't send me home again, I just can't face myself alone again

Well don't you run back inside darling, you know just what I'm here for

So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore

Well show a little faith there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright

Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain

Make crosses from your lovers; throw roses in the rain

Waste your summer praying in vain

For a savior to rise from these streets

Well now I'm no hero it's understood

All the redemption I've got to offer girl

Is beneath this dirty hood

With a chance to make it real somehow

Tell me what else can we do now

Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair

Well the night's busting open these two lanes will take us anywhere

We got one last chance to make it real

To trade in these wings on some wheels

Climb in back heaven's waiting down on the tracks

Oh come take my hand, we're ridin out tonight to case the promised land

Oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road

Lyin' out there like a killer in the sun

I know it's late but we can make it if we run

Oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

Oh well I got this guitar and I learned, I learned how to make it talk

And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

The door is open but the ride ain't free

I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken

Well tonight we'll be free all the promises will be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out

Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street

Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on

When you get to the porch they're gone on the wind

So Mary climb in

It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win