The Promise-Earth, Wind & Fire

[00:01.35]Johnny works in a factory [00:03.95]Billy works downtown [00:06.65]Terry works in a rock and roll band [00:09.65]Looking for that million dollar sound [00:12.75]I got a job down in Darlington [00:15.55]Some nights I don't go [00:18.25]Some nights I go to the drive-in [00:21.05]Some nights I stay home [00:23.75]I followed that dream [00:26.55]Just like those guys do way up on the screen [00:29.45]Drove my Challenger down Route 9 [00:32.45]Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes [00:35.45]The promise was broken [00:38.25]Cashed in a few of my dreams [00:41.25]Well I built that Challenger by myself [00:44.25]But I needed money and so I sold it [00:47.15]Lived a secret I should've kept to myself [00:50.15]But I got drunk one night and I told it [00:52.95]All my life, I fought that fight [00:55.75]The fight that you can't win [00:58.75]Every day it just gets harder to live [01:01.65]The dream you're believing in [01:04.55]Thunder Road, baby, you were so right [01:07.45]Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight [01:13.25]Well I won big once and I hit the coast [01:16.25]Yeah, but I paid the cost [01:18.95]Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits [01:22.45]Of all the other ones who lost [01:25.05]The promise is broken, you go on living [01:28.05]It steals something from down in your soul [01:30.95]When the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference [01:34.05]Something in your heart goes cold [01:36.65]I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks [01:39.85]That dead ends in the two-bit bars [01:42.75]The promise was broken, I was far away from home [01:46.05]Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car [01:48.85]Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games [01:52.25]Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain [01:55.65]Thunder Road me and Billy we'd always sing [01:58.75]Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away