text: The screen door slams, Marys dress sways
  Like a vision she dances across the porch. As the radio plays
  Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
  Hey thats me and I want you only
  Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone again
  Dont run back inside, darling you know just what Im here for
  So youre scared and youre thinking
  That maybe we aint that young anymore
  Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
  You aint a beauty, but hey youre alright
  Oh and thats 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 now Im no hero, thats 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 nights busting open
  This 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, Heavens waiting on down the tracks
  Oh-oh come take my hand
  Were 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 its 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 cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
  From your front porch to my front seat
  The doors open but the ride it aint free
  And I know youre lonely and theres words that I aint spoken
  But tonight well be free, all the promisesll 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 theyre gone
  On the wind, so Mary climb in
  Its a town full of losers and Im pulling out of here to win