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There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the's gutters lined in song, dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away, but I got debts that no honest man can pay
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied 'till he rules everything
Come on now try and understand the way I feel when I'm in your hands
You see all the romantic movies, you dream and take the boys home
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun, oh but mama that's where the fun is
I'm just calling one last time not to change your mind, but just to say I miss you baby
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Well I've tried so hard baby, but I just can't see what a woman like you is doing with me
She says baby if you wanna be wild you got a lot to learn, close your eyes let them melt, let them fire, let them burn
I pick you up with flowers when you get off from work, it's like you don't even care, it's like I'm some kind of jerk
There ain't no storybook story, there's no never-ending song
I ain't nothing but tired, man I'm just tired and bored with myself
Now I hear she's got a house up in Fairview, and a style she's trying to maintain
Cold rain running down the front of my shirt, I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. And you just better believe, boy, somebody's gonna get hurt tonight
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said 'Sit down' I stood up
You and me we were the pretenders, we let it all slip away
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul
Puerto Rican Jane, oh won't you tell me what's your name
I was the prince of the paupers crowned downtown at the beggar's bash
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Leave behind your sorrows, let this day be the last. Tomorrow there’ll be sunshine, and all this darkness past
Woke up Election Day, skies gunpowder and shades of gray
That you know flag flying over the courthouse means certain things are set in stone - who we are, what we'll do and what we won't
Out on the street your chances are zero
Now's there's tears on the pillow darlin' where we slept, and you took my heart when you left
We learned more from a three minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school
All day you've been working that hard line, now tonight you're gonna have a good time
She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot outside the 7-11 store
Now I know your mama she don't like me 'cause I play in a rock and roll band
She'll let you in her mouth, if the words you say are right
Your Mamma's yappin' in the back seat, tell her to push over and move them big feet
Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife the only thing that I got's been both'rin' me my whole life
We got married, and swore we'd never part, then little by little we drifted from each other's heart
When the change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band, from the coastline to the city all the little pretties raise their hands
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free, look in their eyes Mom you'll see me
Thunder Road, we were gonna take it all and throw it all away
I've done my best to live the right way, I get up every morning and go to work each day
I make my way through this darkness, I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
For my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
Have you ever seen a one legged dog makin' his way down the street
Hey there mister can you tell me what happened to the seeds I've sown
Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake, whoah, she's an angel from the Innerlake
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me
Without you, I'm a drummer, girl, that can't keep a beat, an ice cream truck on a deserted street
I been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone, the road of good intentions has gone dry as a bone
