Bruce Springsteen Lyrics

Album: 18 Tracks

THE PROMISE Lyrics

Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown 

Terry works in a rock and roll band 

Lookin' for that million-dollar sound 

I got a little job down in Darlington 

But some nights I don't go 

Some nights I go to the drive-in, or some nights I stay home 

I followed that dream just like those guys do up on the screen 

And I drive a Challenger down Route 9 through the dead ends and all the bad scenes 

And when the promise was broken, I cashed in a few of my dream 

Well now I built that Challenger by myself 

But I needed money and so I sold it 

I lived a secret I should'a kept to myself 

But I got drunk one night and I told it 

All my life I fought this fight 

The fight that no man can never win 

Every day it just gets harder to live 

This dream I'm believing in 

Thunder Road, oh baby you were so right 

Thunder Road there's something dyin' on the highway tonight 

I won big once and I hit the coast 

But somehow I paid the big cost 

Inside I felt like I was carryin' the broken spirits 

Of all the other ones who lost 

When the promise is broken you go on living 

But it steals something from down in your soul 

Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference 

Something in your heart goes cold 

I followed that dream through the southwestern flats 

That dead ends in two-bit bars 

And when the promise was broken I was far away from home 

Sleepin' in the back seat of a borrowed car 

Thunder Road, for the lost lovers and all the fixed games 

Thunder Road, for the tires rushing by in the rain 

Thunder Road, Billy and me we'd always say 

Thunder Road, we were gonna take it all and throw it all away