Trouble River
There's a river runs through this valley
Cold and deep and black
Comin' like a tombstone shadow across my back
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Trouble river, six foot high and rising
Trouble river, I can't keep from cryin'
I woke up last night shakin'
Shakin' from a dream
That all I seen was smiling faces staring back at me
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Snakes crawling in the hi house
I'm stuck in muddy ground
Tonight I'm gonna shed this skin
And I'll be breathin' free air now
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The Fever
When I get home from my job I turn on my T.V.
But I can't keep my mind on the show
When I lay down at night, oh Ican't get no sleep
So I turn on my radio
But the only sound I hear is you whisperin' in my ear
The words taht you used to say
Now my days grow longer
'Cause my love grows stronger
And the fevrer gets worse
And I've got the fever for this girl
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Got the fever, oh I've got the fever
Nothing that a po' boy can do
When he's got the fever for this girl
Got the fever, oh I've got the fever
Left this little boy blue
I can remember comin' home
I see you standin' at the stove
With the dishes on the table
Dinner ready to go
We'll maybe go out to a movie show
Something that you like to see
Well now you are my sun in the morning
And my moon at night
I think about you baby
I feel all right
Now my days grow longer
'Cause my love grows stronger
And the fever gets worse
And I've got the fever for this girl
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The Promise
Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown
Terry works in a rock and roll band
Lookin' for that million-dollar sound
I got a little job down in Darlington
But some nights I don't go
Some nights I go to the the drive-in, or some nights I stay home
I followed that dream just like those guys do up on the screen
And I drive a Challenger down Route 9 through the dead ends and all
the bad scenes
When the promise was broken, I cashed in a few of my dreams
Well now I built that Challenger by myself
But I needed money and so I sold it
I lived a secret I should'a kept to myself
But I got drunk one night and I told it
All my life I fought this fight
The fight that no man can ever win
Every day it just gets harder to live
This dream I'm believing in
Thunder road, oh baby you were so right
Thunder road, there's somethin' dyin' on the highway tonight
I won big once and I hit the coast
But somehow I paid the big cost
Inside I felt like I was carryin' the broken spirits
Of all the other ones who lost
When the promise is broken you go on living
But it steals something from down in your soul
Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference
Somethin' in your heart goes cold
I followed that dream through the southwestern flats
That dead ends in two-bit bars
And when the promise was broken I was far away from home
Sleepin' in the backseat of a borrowed car
Thunder road, for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
Thunder road, for the tires rushing by in the rain
Thunder road, Billy and me we'd always say
Thunder road, we were gonna take it all and throw it all away
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