[00:46.491]The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways[00:53.587]Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays[01:01.019]Roy Orbison singing for the lonely[01:04.838]Hey, that's me, and I want you only[01:08.784]Don't turn me home again[01:11.160]I just can't face myself alone again[01:16.479]Don't run back inside[01:18.569]Darling, you know just what I'm here for[01:23.923]So you're scared, and you're thinking[01:26.656]That maybe we ain't that young anymore[01:31.235]Show a little faith, there's magic in the night[01:35.671]You ain't a beauty, but, hey, you're alright[01:40.927]Oh, and that's alright with me[01:47.412]You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain[01:51.974]Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain[01:56.424]Waste your summer praying in vain[01:59.273]For a saviour to rise from these streets[02:02.582]Well now, I'm no hero, that's understood[02:06.446]All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood[02:12.018]With a chance to make it good somehow[02:14.752]Hey what else can we do now?[02:17.874]Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair[02:26.143]Well the night's busting open[02:27.928]These two lanes will take us anywhere[02:33.474]We got one last chance to make it real[02:37.616]To trade in these wings on some wheels[02:42.107]Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks[02:49.194]Oh-oh come take my hand[02:52.945]We're riding out tonight to case the promised land[02:57.665]Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road[03:03.988]Lying out there like a killer in the sun[03:07.389]Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run[03:12.683]Oh, Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold[03:18.931]Thunder Road[03:23.058]Well I got this guitar, and I learned how to make it talk[03:30.659]And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk[03:38.480]From your front porch to my front seat[03:42.231]The door's open but the ride it ain't free[03:46.284]And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken[03:51.414]But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken[03:58.333]There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away[04:05.753]They haunt this dusty beach road[04:08.916]In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets[04:13.758]They scream your name at night in the street[04:17.198]Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet[04:21.338]And in the lonely cool before dawn[04:24.676]You hear their engines roaring on[04:29.088]But when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind[04:36.339]So Mary, climb in[04:41.160]It's a town full of losers[04:43.782]And I'm pulling out of here to win