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Dm _ _ _ _
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The
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Fm _
C F screen door
Bb slams,
F Mary's dress
C waves.
F _ Like a vision she dances
C across the porch
Bb as the radio plays.
Roy Orbison singing
C for the lonely,
F hey that's me and I want
Bb you only.
Don't turn me
F home again,
F I just
C can't face
C myself
D alone
C again.
F Don't run
Bb back
Bb inside, darling you know
F just what I'm here
C for.
F _
C F So you're
C scared and you're
C thinking that maybe we
Bb ain't that young anymore.
Show a little
C faith, there's
C magic in the
Bb night.
F You ain't a
Cm beauty, but hey
Bb you're alright.
F Oh,
F and that's
C alright with me.
_
F You hide under
Dm covers and study your pain.
F Make crosses when your
Bb lover still
Gm roses in
F the rain.
Waste
Am your summer praying in vain
Bb for a savior to rise from these dreams.
F Well, now I know you're
Dm all that's understood.
F All the girls and I can offer
Bb girls beneath this
F dirty hood.
With a chance
Am I'll make it somehow.
Bb Hey, what else can
D we do
C now.
Except
F throw down the
Bb window and let the
F wind blow back your hair.
_ Well, the nights busted open
Am these two lanes will take
Bb us anywhere.
We got one last chance to
C make it real.
C F The train and these wings on
Bb some wheels.
F Bb Climbing back
C in a bus,
F we down
Bb on the
C tracks.
Gm _
F _
Dm Come take my
F hand.
We're riding out
Bb tonight to face the
F promised land.
Oh,
Am.
Thunder
Bb Road.
Oh, Thunder
C Road.
Oh, Thunder Road.
F Flying out there
Dm like a killer in the sun.
F Hey, I know it's late,
Bb we can make it.
We're
F on.
Oh,
Am.
Thunder Road.
Bb Stand tight.
C Take hold.
F Thunder Road.
_ .
Bb Well, I got this
C guitar and I
Bb learned how to
F make it talk.
_ .
Dm And my car's out back if you're ready to take
Bb that long
C walk.
Bb From the front porch to
C Maple Street.
The
Am doors open with the rat
Dm-a-tat feet.
Bb And I know
Dm you're lonely for
Gm words that I ain't
Bb spoke.
C Tonight we'll be free.
One of us is gonna be
F broke.
I shall lower a ghost in
Bb the eyes of all the
F boys that set away.
They hunt this dusty beach
Am road in the skeleton
Bb frames of burned-out chalets.
They scream your name at night
C in the street.
C Your
F graduation gown lies in rags
Bb at their feet.
And
Am the lonely groove before dawn.
You hear
Bb their engines roaring on.
Gm When you
Em get to the
C porch, they're
Bb gone on their way.
To
Gm America.
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_
Bb It's a town full of losers.
C One of them.
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