Cowboy Junkies - Thunder Road

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Cowboy Junkies - Thunder Road
Cover of Bruce Springsteen's classic.
Lyrics:
The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Live a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again.

Don't run back inside
Darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, buy hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath the covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it real somehow
Hey what else can we do now?

Except roll down the windows
and let the wind blow back your hair
Well, the night busted open
and these two lane will take us anywhere
We've got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh, come take my hand
We're heading out tonight to case the promise land
Oh Thunder Road, Oh Thunder Road,
Oh Oh Thunder Road.

There are ghosts in the eyes
of all the boys you sent away
They ride this dusty beach road
in the skeleton frames of burnt out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rages at their feet
In the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when they get to the porch they're gone

On the wind,
So Mary climb in,
It's a town full of losers
and I'm pulling out of here to win.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Cowboy
• Junkies
• Thunder
• Road
• Springsteen
• blues
• rock
• soul

[wdharveyoicu]

very well said. They have a certain special sound that no one has ever been able to duplicate. Sometimes, their music is depressing, but other times, it's very uplifting and encouraging. It's simply REAL. It never condescends, it never says "things will get better"...it always says "things are what they are...take your chances, and if you play it right, it'll work out"...and never apologizes.

[AndyRiotRed]

damn, their music always makes me dream of traveling - yet always in a melencholy way - not in a superjubilantholyfuckherewego kind of way.

[lissentojaarhart]

Great! The junkies way!

[DeirenM]

Thunder Beach is, as Neil Young would say,

"there is a town in north Ontario,

With dream comfort memory to spare,

And in my mind

I still need a place to go,

All my changes were there."

Not a town though - a cottage community in a pristine part of the world

[mcs1hr]

@DeirenM - where's Thunder Beach?

[mcs1hr]

This is the most considered Springsteen cover I've heard. First-class.

[TheJayRoderick]

Superb what a voice she got

[dgb111]

Bruce on Qualudes. I´ll take a pass.

[zoot2233]

@AndyRiotRed They are Grunge. Listen they have Cobain and Veder nailed, just alot better!

[redsox348]

great bruce cover

[jpbvl]

Encore ! Love it !!!

[awesomeologyism]

This song doesn't do good going at this slow of a beat. ALthough it is ok, It will never be as Good as the Original.