Johnny
works in a factory,
Billy works downtown
Terry works in a rock and roll band,
looking for that million dollar sound
I got a job down in Darlington
Some nights I don't go
Some nights I go to the drive -in
Some nights I stay home
I followed that dream
just like those guys do way
up on the screen
Drove my Challenger down Route 9
to the dead ends and all
the bad scenes
When the promise was broken
I cashed in a few of my own dreams
I built that Challenger by myself
But I needed money and so I sold it
I left a secret
I should have kept to myself,
but I got drunk one night and I told it
All of my life I've fought that fight,
the fight that you can never win
And every day just gets harder to live the
dream you're believing in
Thunder roll, hey babe
you were so right
Thunder roll,
something dying down
on the highway tonight
Well, I won big once and I hit the coast
Yeah, but I paid the cost
Inside, I felt like I was carrying
the broken spirits
Of all the other ones who'd lost
And 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
Or something in your heart turns cold
I followed that dream
through the southwestern tracks
That dead ends in the two -bit bars
When the promise was broken,
I was far away from home
Sleepin' in the backseat of a borrowed car
Thunder roll
It's for the lost lovers
and all the fix games
Thunder roll
It's for the tires rushin'
by in the rain
Thunder roll
Billy, what we'd always say,
thunder roll
I'm take it all,
throw it all away
You