[00:15.87]Johnny works in a factory
[00:16.44]Billy works downtown
[00:18.21]Terry works in a rock and roll band
[00:19.65]Looking for that million dollar sound
[00:24.27]I got a job down in Darlington
[00:26.97]Some nights I don't go
[00:28.71]Some nights I go to the drive-in
[00:29.70]Some nights I stay home
[00:31.08]I followed that dream
[00:32.10]Just like those guys do way up on the screen
[00:40.05]Drove my Challenger down Route 9
[00:41.76]Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
[00:54.78]The promise was broken
[00:55.74]Cashed in a few of my dreams
[00:56.85]Well I built that Challenger by myself
[01:02.10]But I needed money and so I sold it
[01:04.02]Lived a secret I should've kept to myself
[01:15.24]But I got drunk one night and I told it
[01:16.92]All my life, I fought that fight
[01:18.39]The fight that you can't win
[01:21.54]Every day it just gets harder to live
[01:22.95]The dream you're believing in
[01:25.56]Thunder Road, baby, you were so right
[01:31.29]Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight
[01:34.71]Well I won big once and I hit the coast
[01:38.52]Yeah, but I paid the cost
[01:41.61]Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits
[01:44.52]Of all the other ones who lost
[01:49.44]The promise is broken, you go on living
[01:50.94]It steals something from down in your soul
[01:52.98]When the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference
[01:54.30]Something in your heart goes cold
[01:58.56]I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks
[01:59.55]That dead ends in the two-bit bars
[02:01.20]The promise was broken, I was far away from home
[02:05.49]Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car
[02:06.42]Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
[02:15.60]Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain
[02:17.79]Thunder Road me and Billy we'd always sing
[02:19.17]Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away