THE PROMISE

THE PROMISE I

Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown

Terry works in a rock 'n' roll band looking for that million-dollar sound

Me I don't do nothing much, I spend a lot of time alone

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

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

With a built-up 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 old dreams

You see I built that Challenger by myself

But I needed money and so I sold it

And I lived a secret I should have kept to myself

But I got drunk one night and I told it

All my life I fought that fight

The one that I can't ever win

And everyday it just gets harder to live

The dreams I'm believing in

Thunder Road　　I stay up every morning until it turns light

Thunder Road　　There's something dying on the Highway tonight

Well now I won big once and I hit the coast

Oh but somehow I paid the big cost

Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits

Of all the other ones who lost

When the promise is broken you go on livin'

But it takes something from down in your soul

Like when the truth is spoken

And it don't make no difference

Something in your heart turns cold

You see I followed that dream, me and some guys

Through the dead ends and all the two-bit bars

When the promise was broken

I was drunk and far away from home

Sleeping with a stranger in the back seat of a borrowed car

Thunder Road　　Here's one for the lost lovers and all the fixed games

Thunder Road　　Here's one for the tyres rushin' by in the rain

Thunder Road　　I remember when me and Billy we'd always say

Thunder Road　　We were gonna take it all

And throw it all

Away

THE PROMISE II