The screen door slams, Chrissie'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 babe and I want you only
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again tonight
Don't run back inside, baby you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Woman there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
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 summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well I ain't no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, babe, is beneath this old hood
With one last chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can you 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 for some wheels
Climb in back, it's waiting down on the tracks
Well I try hard Chrissie to understand
I'm riding out tonight to case the promised land
Baby if your born with nothing in your hands
Hey its your only chance
Well its lying out there like a killer in the sun
Yeah I know it's late but we can make it if we run
Oh wish you could come
So leave what you've lost, leave what's grown old
On Thunder Road
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
My car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
Hey the door's open but the ride it ain't free
Well there were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dirty beach road
In the skeleton remains of burnt out Chevrolets
They scream to you at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
From you room you hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
Lost in the wind, so Chrissie climb in
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.
