text: Johnny works in a factory
  And Billy works downtown
  Terry works in a rock n roll band
  Looking for that million dollar sound
  Me, sometimes I dont do nothing
  Spend a lot of time alone
  Some nights I go to the drive-in
  And some nights I stay home
  I followed that dream
  Just like those guys do way 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 shouldve kept to myself
  But I got drunk one night and I told it
  All my life, I fought this fight
  The one that no man can ever win
  And every day 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
  Well now, 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
  And when the promise is broken, you go on living
  But man, it steals something from down in your soul
  Like when the truth is spoken, and it dont make no difference
  Something in your heart goes cold
  Well, I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks
  That dead ends in two-bit bars
  And when the promise was broken, I was far away from home
  Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car
  Thunder Road, for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
  Thunder Road, for the tires rushing by in the rain
  Thunder Road, oh, Billy and me, wed always sing
  Thunder Road, we were gonna take it all and throw it all away