text: Johnny works in a factory
  And Billy works downtown
  Terry works in a rock and roll band
  Looking for that million dollar sound
  And I got a little job down in Darlington
  But some nights I dont go
  Some nights I go to the drive-in
  Or some nights I stay home
  I followed that dream
  Just like those guys do up on the screen
  And I drove a Challenger down Route 9
  Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
  And when the promise was broken
  I cashed in a few of my dreams
  Well now I built that Challenger by myself
  But I needed money and so I sold it
  I lived a secret I shoulda kept to myself
  But I got drunk one night and I told it
  All my life, I fought this fight
  The fight that no man can ever win
  Every day it just gets harder to live
  The dream Im believing in
  Thunder Road
  Oh baby, you were so right
  Thunder Road
  Theres something dying down on the highway tonight
  I won big once and I hit the coast
  Oh, but somehow I paid the big cost
  Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits
  Of all the other ones who lost
  When the promise is broken
  You go on living, but it steals something from down in your soul
  Like when the truth is spoken, and it dont make no difference
  Something in your heart turns cold
  Thunder Road
  Is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
  Thunder Road
  For the tires rushing by in the rain
  Thunder Road
  Me and Billy wed always sing
  Thunder Road
  We were gonna take it all and throw it all away