The screen door slams
Mary\'s dress sways
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 your\'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 all right
Oh and that\'s all right with me

You can hide \'neath your covers
And stuy your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I\'m no hero
That\'s 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 night\'s busting opne
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-oh come take my hand
We\'re riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it\'s late we cn make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight tkae hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And 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\'s open bu the ride it ain\'t free
And I know you\'re lonely
And there\'s words that I ain\'t spoken
But tonight we\'ll be free
All the promises will be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys your 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 ther feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they\'re gone
On the wind so Mary climb in
It\'s a town full of losers
And I\'m pulling out of here to win.