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The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
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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 and I want you only
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Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again

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

So you're scared and you're thinking
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That maybe we ain't that young anymore
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Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
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You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
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Oh and that's alright with me

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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
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For a saviour to rise from these streets
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Well now I'm no hero, that's understood
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All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
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With a chance to make it good somehow
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Hey what else can we do now?
 
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Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair

Well the night's busting open
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These two lanes will take us anywhere
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We got one last chance to make it real
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To trade in these wings on some wheels
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Climb in back heaven's waiting down on the tracks

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Oh oh come take my hand
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We re riding out tonight to case the promised land
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Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road,
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Lying out there like a killer in the sun
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Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
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Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road

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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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The door's open but the ride it ain't free
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And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
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But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken
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There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road
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In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
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They scream your name at night in the street
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Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet and in the
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Lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on but when you
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Get to the porch they're gone on the wind so Mary climb in
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It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win

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