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Johnny works in a factory |
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Billy works downtown |
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Terry works in a rock and roll band |
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Looking for that million dollar sound |
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I got a job down in Darlington |
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Some nights I don't go |
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Some nights I go to the drive-in |
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Some nights I stay home |
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I followed that dream |
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Just like those guys do way up on the screen |
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Drove my Challenger down Route 9 |
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Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes |
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The promise was broken |
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Cashed in a few of my dreams |
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Well I built that Challenger by myself |
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But I needed money and so I sold it |
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Lived a secret I should've kept to myself |
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But I got drunk one night and I told it |
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All my life, I fought that fight |
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The fight that you can't win |
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Every day it just gets harder to live |
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The dream you're believing in |
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Thunder Road, baby, you were so right |
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Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight |
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Well I won big once and I hit the coast |
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Yeah, but I paid the cost |
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Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits |
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Of all the other ones who lost |
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The promise is broken, you go on living |
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It steals something from down in your soul |
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When the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference |
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Something in your heart goes cold |
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I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks |
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That dead ends in the two-bit bars |
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The promise was broken, I was far away from home |
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Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car |
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Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games |
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Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain |
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Thunder Road me and Billy we'd always sing |
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Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away |