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Mark Knopfler - Telegraph Road Lyrics

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  • A long time ago came a man on a track
  • Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
  • And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
  • He made a home in the wilderness
  • He built a cabin and a winter store
  • And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
  • And the other travellers came riding down the track
  • And they never went further and they never went back
  • Then came the churches then came the schools
  • Then came the lawyers then came the rules
  • Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
  • And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
  • Then came the mines - then came the ore
  • Then there was the hard times then there was a war
  • Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
  • Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
  • Like a rolling river
  • And my radio says tonight its gonna freeze
  • People driving home from the factories
  • Theres six lanes of traffic
  • Three lanes moving slow
  • I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
  • Ive got a right to go to work but theres no work here to be found
  • Yes and they say were gonna have to pay whats owed
  • Were gonna have to reap from some seed thats been sowed
  • And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
  • They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
  • You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
  • All the way down the telegraph road
  • You know Id sooner forget but I remember those nights
  • When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
  • You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
  • Now you act a little colder like you dont seem to care
  • But believe in me baby and Ill take you away
  • From out of this darkness and into the day
  • From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
  • From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
  • cos Ive run every red light on memory lane
  • Ive seen desperation explode into flames
  • And I dont wanna see it again
  • From all of these signs saying sorry but were closed
  • All the way down the telegraph road

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