Johnny works in a factory 约翰尼在一家工厂

Billy works downtown 比利市中心工作

Terry works in a rock and roll band 特里在一家摇滚乐队

Looking for that million dollar sound 寻找一个数百万美元的声音

   

I got a job down in Darlington 我达林顿找到了一份工作下来

Some nights I don't go 有些晚上我不走

Some nights I go to the drive-in 有些晚上我去驱动中

Some nights I stay home 有些晚上我呆在家里

   

I followed that dream 我跟着那个梦

Just like those guys do way up on the screen 就像那些家伙做的方式在屏幕上

Drove my Challenger down Route 9 开着我的挑战者下来的九号

Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes 通过死角，所有的坏场景

The promise was broken 承诺被打破

Cashed in a few of my dreams 兑现了我的一些梦想

   

Well I built that Challenger by myself 嗯，我建了挑战者由我自己

But I needed money and so I sold it 但我需要钱，所以我把它卖了

Lived a secret I should've kept to myself 住一个秘密，我应该已经把我自己

But I got drunk one night and I told it 不过，我喝醉了一个晚上，我告诉了

   

All my life, I fought that fight 我的一生，我打这场斗争

The fight that you can't win 你不能赢得胜利

Every day it just gets harder to live 每天只会越来越难生存

The dream you're believing in 你认为在梦中

   

Thunder Road, baby, you were so right 雷霆路，宝贝，你是如此的权利

Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight 雷霆路，今晚的东西在高速公路尾声

   

Well I won big once and I hit the coast 嗯，我赢得了很大的一次，我打海岸

Yeah, but I paid the cost 是啊，但我付出的代价

Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits 在内心里，我觉得我是背着破灵

Of all the other ones who lost 所有其他的人谁输了

   

The promise is broken, you go on living 许是坏了，你好好生活下去

It steals something from down in your soul 它偷的东西从你的灵魂下降

When the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference 当真相被说出时，不作无差异

Something in your heart goes cold 东西在你的心脏去寒

   

I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks 我跟着这个梦想通过西南曲目

That dead ends in the two-bit bars 在这两个位杆该死角

The promise was broken, I was far away from home 承诺被打破，我远离家乡

Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car 睡在一个借来的车的后座

   

Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games 雷霆路是失去的恋人，所有的固定游戏

Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain 雷霆路是在雨中奔波的轮胎

Thunder Road me and Billy we'd always sing 雷霆路我和比利我们总是唱

Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away 雷霆路，采取了一切，放弃一切