[00:54.24]Johnny works in a factory
[00:59.21]Billy works downtown
[01:04.92]Terry works in a rock and roll band
[01:09.75]Looking for that million dollar sound
[01:17.79]I got a job down in Darlington
[01:22.37]Some nights I don't go
[01:28.56]Some nights I go to the drive-in
[01:34.65]Some nights I stay home
[01:40.40]I followed that dream
[01:43.77]Just like those guys do way up on the screen
[01:52.25]Drove my Challenger down Route 9
[01:57.68]Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
[02:04.50]The promise was broken
[02:07.68]Cashed in a few of my dreams
[02:15.99]Well I built that Challenger by myself
[02:21.44]But I needed money and so I sold it
[02:27.87]Lived a secret I should've kept to myself
[02:33.71]But I got drunk one night and I told it
[02:41.18]All my life, I fought that fight
[02:47.25]The fight that you can't win
[02:52.88]Every day it just gets harder to live
[02:59.40]The dream you're believing in
[03:04.88]Thunder Road, baby, you were so right
[03:12.30]Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight
[03:39.87]Well I won big once and I hit the coast
[03:45.09]Yeah, but I paid the cost
[03:52.05]Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits
[03:58.46]Of all the other ones who lost
[04:05.21]The promise is broken, you go on living
[04:10.74]It steals something from down in your soul
[04:17.04]When the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference
[04:23.75]Something in your heart goes cold
[04:29.25]I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks
[04:35.04]That dead ends in the two-bit bars
[04:41.49]The promise was broken, I was far away from home
[04:46.37]Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car
[04:52.76]Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
[05:05.43]Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain
[05:24.83]Thunder Road me and Billy we'd always sing
[05:37.29]Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away