| Lyric | Next Lyric | Number of Words |
| The screen door slams, | |
| Like a vision she dances | |
| Roy Orbison singing | |
| Hey that's me | |
| Don't turn me home again, | |
| Don't run back inside, darling you know | |
| So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe | |
| Show a little faith, | |
| You ain't a beauty, | |
| Oh, and that's | |
| You can hide | |
| Make crosses from your lovers | |
| Waste your summer | |
| For a savior to | |
| Well, now I'm | |
| All the redemption | |
| Is beneath | |
| With a chance | |
| Hey, | |
| Except roll down the window | |
| Well the night's busting open | |
| We got one last | |
| To trade in these | |
| Climb in back | |
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| Oh oh | |
| Riding out tonight | |
| Oh oh, Thunder road, | |
| Lying out there like | |
| Hey I know it's late | |
| Oh Thunder Road, | |
| Well I got this guitar | |
| And my car's out back | |
| From your front porch | |
| The door's open | |
| And I know you're lonely | |
| But tonight | |
| All the | |
| There were ghosts in the eyes | |
| They haunt this | |
| In the skeleton frames | |
| They scream your name | |
| Your graduation gown | |
| And in the lonely | |
| You hear their | |
| But when you get to the porch | |
| So, | |
| It's a town full of losers, and | |
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