"The screen door slams   Mary's dress waves  like a vision she walks

across the porch as the radio plays

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely  hey that's me and I want you only

Don't turn me home again  I just can't face my self alone again.

Don't run back inside darling you know just what I am here for

And you say your scared and your thinking that

maybe we ain't that young anymore

Show a little faith there's magic in the night  your a beauty and hey your alright

And thats alright   tonight   Oh oh come take my hand

we're riding out tongiht to chase the promised land

Oh, 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 your ready

to take that long long walk   from your front porch to my back seat

the doors open but the ride ain't free  I know there are things you want spoken

tonight we'll be free all the  promises   will be broken...

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away

there voices  stand alone in the skeletons of burned out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the streets

your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before the dawn  you can hear their engines roar on

and you stand on the porch waiting and their gone in the wind

Whoa oh come take my hand  we're riding out tonight to chase the promise land

oh,oh whoa Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold Thunder Road!