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THUNDER ROAD^©

Cowboy Junkies' version

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside, darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Yeah and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain for a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the windows and let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's bustin' open and these two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks

And oh oh come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh oh oh oh Thunder Road

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the streets
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before the dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win

Page last updated: 21 Oct 2009

Cowboy Junkies is a Canadian country music and alternative rock band, formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family: Margo Timmins on vocals, Michael Timmins on guitars, Peter Timmins on drums, and Alan Anton on bass.

Margo Timmins told Backstreets Magazine that "all of us are huge Springsteen fans. I've always loved that song [Thunder Road]; It's one of the most beautiful songs ever written." She adds that to her, "'Thunder Road' is a real woman's song. It speaks of aging and losing certain dreams that you might have as a young woman that I don't think young men have. It's just a song I always wanted to sing from my perspective, a woman's perspective." Timmins said the group actually tried to record it several years ago but wasn't satisfied with the results. "I don't think I had the skill to do what I wanted to do with it," she says. "I knew how I wanted to do it but just didn't have the talent yet. So we waited and brought it back. I'm very happy with this take on it; it has a nice balance between the sadness and the beauty I think is part of that song."

The group had also released covers of STATE TROOPER and MY FATHER'S HOUSE, and the three songs have been part of the group's live repertoire. The Cowboy Junkies' recording of THUNDER ROAD was released as part of a bonus disc of covers that accompanied their 2004 studio album One Soul Now.

Cowboy Junkies / 'Neath Your Covers, Part 1

CD EP - Zoe Records (6-01143-2005-2-6) - USA - 2004

Free 5-track EP with One Soul Now CD purchase

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Thanks Lars (L.B.) for the lyrics.

THUNDER ROAD©

Cowboy Junkies' version

Page last updated: 21 Oct 2009

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