Lyrics to Thunder Road

Bruce Springsteen



The screen door slams

Marys dress sways

Like a vision she dances across the porch

As the radio plays

Roy orbison singing for the lonely

Hey thats me and I want you only

Dont turn me home again

I just cant face myself alone again

Dont run back inside

Darling you know just what Im here for

So youre scared and youre thinking

That maybe we aint that young anymore

Show a little faith, theres magic in the night

You aint a beauty, but hey youre alright

Oh and thats 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 Im no hero

Thats understood

All the redemption I can offer, girl

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 nights 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

Heavens waiting on down the tracks

Oh-oh come take my hand

Riding out tonight to case the promised land

Oh-oh thunder road, oh thunder road oh thunder road

Lying out there like a killer in the sun

Hey I know its late we can make it if we run

Oh thunder road, sit tight take hold

Thunder road



Well I got this guitar

And I learned how to make it talk

And my cars out back

If youre ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

The doors open but the ride it aint free

And I know youre lonely

For words that I aint spoken

But tonight well be free

All the promisesll 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

But when you get to the porch theyre gone

On the wind, so mary climb in

Its a town full of losers

And Im pulling out of here to win.