Uploaded by NMSD on Sep 29, 2011
Lyrics - The Promise:
Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown
Terry works in a rock and roll band
Lookin' for that million-dollar sound
I got a little job down in Darlington
But some nights I don't go
Some nights I go to the drive-in, or some nights I stay home
I followed that dream just like those guys do up on the screen
And I drive a 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 dream
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 this fight
The fight that no man can never win
Every day it just gets harder to live
This dream I'm believing in
Thunder Road, oh baby you were so right
Thunder Road there's something dyin' on the highway tonight
I won big once and I hit the coast
But somehow I paid the big cost
Inside I felt like I was carryin' the 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 goes cold
Thunder Road, for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
Thunder Road, for the tires rushing by in the rain
Thunder Road, Billy and me we'd always say
Thunder Road, we were gonna take it all and throw it all away
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I always played this since 2008 when I had the original 7 minute version of this in Buffalo, NY on the way to gigs.
nittyranks 3 weeks ago
This is the studio version of this song after it was fixed with software. Some of the tempo was fixed as well as the background parts. The end get's cut off compared the bootleg studio cut. This is the definitive Springsteen song. The keyboard parts are excellent. I hope it get's played on the upcoming tour.
nittyranks 3 weeks ago
Thank you Bruce for this song :')
Brave1623 2 months ago 2