Thunder Road (1975)     (video)

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1. A screen door slams, Mary's dress sways

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like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays.

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

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don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again.

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

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so you're scared and you're thinking that

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maybe we ain't that young any more.

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Show a little faith, there's magic in the night,

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you ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right.

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Oh, and that's alright with me !

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2. You can hide beneath your covers and study your pain,

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make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain,

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waste your summer praying in vain

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for a savior to rise from these streets.

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Well, now I'm no hero that's understood,

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all the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood.

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With a chance to make it good somehow.

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Hey, what else can we do now except….

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3. Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair,

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well, the night's busting open these two lanes can take us anywhere.

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We got one last chance to make it real

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to trade in these wings on some wheels,

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climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks !

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4. Oh, come take my hand,

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we're ridin out tonight to case the promised land.

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

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lyin' out there like a killer in the sun.

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Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run,

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oh, oh, thunder road, sit tight, take hold, thunder road !

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5. Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk,

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

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from your front porch to my front seat,

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the door's open but the ride ain't free.

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Well, I know you're hungry for words that I ain't spoken,

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well, tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken.

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

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they haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of

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burned-out Chevrolets.

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They scream your name at night in the street,

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your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet,

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

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But when you get to the porch, they're gone

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on the wind, so, Mary, climb in,

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it's a town full of losers I'm pulling out of here to win.

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(orig. = capo 3rd) (Bruce Springsteen)