Thunder Road

9/19/78 Passiac, NJ

It was this Robert Mitchum movie, it was about these moonshine runners down south. I
never saw the movie, I only saw the poster in the lobby in the theater, and I took the
title and I wrote this song. But I didn't think that there was ever a place that was like
what I wrote in the song, I didn't know if there was or not. And we were out in the
desert over the summertime, driving to Nevada, and we came upon this house on the
side of the road. It had a big picture of Geronimo out front, said "landlord" over the
top, and had a big sign that said "This is the land of peace, love, justice and no mercy".
And it pointed down this little dirt road that said Thunder Road. This is for Mattie.
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