Thunder Road

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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The screen door slams, Chrissie's dress sways  
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Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays  
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Roy Orbison singing for the lonely  
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Hey that's me babe and I want you only  
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Don't turn me home again  
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I just can't face myself alone again tonight  
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Don't run back inside, baby you know just what I'm here for  
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So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that   
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young anymore  
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Woah and there's magic in the night  
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You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright  
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And that's alright with me  

[Verse 2]
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You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain  
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Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain  
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Waste your summer praying in vain for a saviour to rise from   
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these streets  
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Well I ain't no hero, that's understood  
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All the redemption I can offer, babe is beneath this old hood  
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With one last chance to make it good somehow  
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Hey what else can you do now  
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Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your   
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hair  
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Well the night's bustin' open and these two lanes will take us  
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 anywhere  
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We got one last chance to make it real  
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To trade in these wings for some wheels  
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Climb in back, it's waiting down on the tracks  

[Verse 3]
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When I try hard Chrissie to understand  
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I'm riding out tonight to case the promised land  
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Baby if you're born with nothing in your hands  
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Hey it's your only chance  
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Well it's lying out there like a killer in the sun  
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Yeah I know it's late but we can make it if we run  
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Oh I wish you could come  
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So leave what you've lost, leave what's grown old on Thunder   
Road  

[Bridge]
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Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk  
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And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk  
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From your front porch to my front seat  
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Hey the door's open but the ride it ain't free  

[Verse 4]
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Well there were ghosts in the eyes of the boys that you sent   
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away  
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They haunt this dirty beach road in the skeleton remains of   
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burnt out Chevrolets  
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They scream to you at night from the street  
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Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet  
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And in the lonely cool before dawn  
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From your room you hear their engines roar on  
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But when you get to the porch they're gone, lost in the wind,   
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so Chrissie climb in  
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It's a town full of losers and I'm pullin' outta here to win  

[Outro]
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