Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Promise, artist - Bruce Springsteen. Date of issue: 15.11.2010
Song language: English
The Promise |
| Johnny works in a factory |
| And Billy works downtown |
| Terry works in a rock 'n' roll band |
| Looking for that million dollar sound |
| Me, sometimes I don’t do nothing |
| Spend a lot of time alone |
| Some nights I go to the drive-in |
| And some nights I stay home |
| I followed that dream |
| Just like those guys do way up on the screen |
| And I drove 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 dreams |
| Well now, I built that Challenger by myself |
| But I needed money and so I sold it |
| I lived a secret I should’ve kept to myself |
| But I got drunk one night and I told it |
| All my life, I fought this fight |
| The one that no man can ever win |
| And every day just gets harder to live |
| The dream I’m believing in |
| Thunder Road, oh baby, you were so right |
| Thunder Road, there’s something dying down 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 |
| And when the promise is broken, you go on living |
| But man, 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 |
| Well, I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks |
| That dead ends in two-bit bars |
| And when the promise was broken, I was far away from home |
| Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car |
| Thunder Road, for the lost lovers and all the fixed games |
| Thunder Road, for the tires rushing by in the rain |
| Thunder Road, oh, Billy and me, we’d always sing |
| Thunder Road, we were gonna take it all and throw it all away |