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martyn joseph - the promise lyrics

[verse 1]
johnny works in a factory
billy works downtown
terry works in a rock and roll band
looking for that million+dollar sound
i got a job down in darlington
some nights i don’t go
some nights i go to the drive+in
some nights i stay home

[bridge]
i followed that dream
just like those guys do up on the screen
drove my challenger down route 9
through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
when the promise was broken
i cashed in a few of my own dreams

[verse 2]
well, i built that challenger by myself
but i needed money and so i sold it
i lived a secret i should have kept to myself
but i got drunk one night and i told it
all of my life i fought that fight
the fight that you can ever win
and every day it just gets harder to live
this dream you’re believing in
[chorus]
thunder road
hey babe, you were so right
thunder road
something dying down on the highway tonight

[verse 3]
i won big once and i hit the coast
yeah, but i paid the cost
inside i felt like i was carrying the broken spirits
of all the other ones who’d lost
and 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
well, something in your heart turns cold

[bridge]
i followed that dream through the southwestern tracks
that dead ends in the two+bit bars
when the promise was broken, i was far away from home
sleeping in the backseat of a borrowed car

[chorus]
thunder road
is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
thunder road
is for the tires rushing by in the rain
thunder road
billy, what we’d always say
thunder road
we were gonna take it all and throw it all away

- martyn joseph lyrics

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