Badly Drawn Boy's cover version
The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances 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 myself alone again
Don't you run back inside, you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's 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 summers praying in vain for a saviour to rise from these streets
Now I'm no hero, that's 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 night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere
We've got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
And it's oh oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh-oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
It's lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late but we can make it if we run
Oh-oh-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 car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely, those words that I ain't spoken
Tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes of all your boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton remains 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 they're gone, lost on the wind, so Mary climb in
This is a town full of losers, we're pulling out of here to win
The above lyrics are for Badly Drawn Boy's cover version of THUNDER ROAD. The song was released in 2003 on the Bruce Springsteen tribute album Born To Run 2003 Volume One.
List of available versions of THUNDER ROAD on this website:
THUNDER ROAD [Album version]