Thunder Road

The screen door slams
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 turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
Don't 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
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're alright
Yeah 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 summers, praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now, I'm no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey, 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 and

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 on down the tracks

Oh oh, come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh, Thunder Road

Oh, Thunder Road, ohoow, Thunder Road

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 the dawn
You hear their engines rolling on
But when you get to the porch, they're gone on
On the wind
So Mary, climb in
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win