thunder road

the screen door slams
Mary' dress waves
like a vision she dances across the porch
as the radio playsRoy 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 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 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

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 pulling out of here to win