text: Johnny works in a factory
  Billy works downtown
  Terry works in a rock and roll band
  Looking for that million dollar sound
  I got a job down in Darlington
  Some nights I dont go
  Some nights I go to the drive-in
  Some nights I stay home
  I followed that dream
  Just like those guys do way up on the screen
  Drove my Challenger down Route 9
  Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
  The promise was broken
  Cashed in a few of my dreams
  Well I built that Challenger by myself
  But I needed money and so I sold it
  Lived a secret I shouldve kept to myself
  But I got drunk one night and I told it
  All my life, I fought that fight
  The fight that you cant win
  Every day it just gets harder to live
  The dream youre believing in
  Thunder Road, baby, you were so right
  Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight
  Well I won big once and I hit the coast
  Yeah, but I paid the cost
  Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits
  Of all the other ones who lost
  The promise is broken, you go on living
  It steals something from down in your soul
  When the truth is spoken, it dont make no difference
  Something in your heart goes cold
  I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks
  That dead ends in the two-bit bars
  The promise was broken, I was far away from home
  Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car
  Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
  Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain
  Thunder Road me and Billy wed always sing
  Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away