Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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A screen door slams,
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Mary's dress sways
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Like a vision she dances across the porch
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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 on ly
Don't turn me home again
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I just can't face
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myself alone again
Verse 2
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Don't run back inside darling
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You know just what I'm here for
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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
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but, hey, you're alright
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Oh, and that's alright with me
Verse 3
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You can hide 'neath your covers
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and study your pain
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Make crosses from your lovers,
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throw roses in the rain
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Waste your summer praying in vain
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For a sa vior to rise from these streets
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Gm
Well I'm no hero, that's understood
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All the redemption I can offer, girl
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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?
Verse 4
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Except roll down the window
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And let the wind blow back your hair
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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,
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hea ven's waiting down
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on the tracks
Verse 5
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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, Thunder Road
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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, Thunder Road
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Sit tight, take hold
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Thunder Road
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Well, I got
Bridge 1
this guitar
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And I learned how to make it talk
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And my car's out back
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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 ain't free
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And I know you're lonely for words that
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I ain't spoken
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Tonight we'll be free,
all the promises'll be broken
Verse 6
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There were ghosts in the eyes
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Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
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On the skeleton frames
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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
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And in the lonely cool before dawn
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You hear their engines roaring on
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When you get to the porch
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They're gone on the wind
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So Mary, climb in
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It's a town full of losers
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I'm pulling out of here to win
Outro 1
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Cm
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[fade out]
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