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 you'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 alright
Oh 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 savior 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 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
Heaven's 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 it's 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 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 but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely 
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll 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 they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And I'm pullin' outta here to win.