專輯：Bruce Springsteen (布魯斯史普林斯汀)
歌曲：The Promise
作詞：Bruce Springsteen
作曲：Bruce Springsteen
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
I followed that dream
Just like those guys do
way up on the screen
Drove my Challenger
down Route 9
Through the dead ends
and all the bad scenes
The promise was broken
Cashed in a few of my dreams
Well I built that
Challenger by myself
But I needed money
and so I sold it
Lived a secret I should've
kept to myself
But I got drunk one night
and I told it
All my life
I fought that fight
The fight that you can't win
Every day it just gets
harder to live
The dream you're
believing in
Thunder Road baby
you were so right
Thunder Road
something dying down on
the highway tonight
Well 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 lost
The promise is broken
you go on living
It steals something
from down in your soul
When the truth is spoken
it don't make no difference
Something in your
heart goes cold
I followed that dream through
the southwestern tracks
That dead ends in the
two-bit bars
The promise was broken
I was far away from home
Sleeping in the back seat
of a borrowed car
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 me and Billy
we'd always sing
Thunder Road
take it all and throw it
all away
