BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN lyrics - The Promise

Johnny works in a factory, Billy works downtown

Terry works in a rock and roll band lookin' for that million-dollar sound

I got a job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go

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

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

I drove my Challenger down Route 9 through the dead ends and all the bad scenes

And the promise was broken, I cashed in a few of my own dreams



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 that fight, a fight that you can never win

Every day it just gets harder to live a dream you're believing in

Thunder Road, oh baby you were so right

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



Well I won big once and I hit the coast, hey but I paid the big cost

Inside I felt like I was carryin' 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 runs cold

I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks, that dead ends in two-bit bars

When the promise was broken I was far away from home sleepin' in the backseat of a borrowed car

Thunder Road, here's for the lost lovers and all the fixed games

Thunder Road, here's for the tires rushing by in the rain

Thunder Road, remember Billy what we'd always say

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