DIRE STRAITS

DIRE STRAITS - Telegraph Road (Live Remix) lyrics

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A long time ago came a man on a track<br />

walking thirty miles with a pack on his back<br />

and he put down his load where he thought it was the best<br />

made a home in the wilderness<br />

he built a cabin and a winter store<br />

and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore<br />

and the other travellers came riding down the track<br />

and they never went further, no, they never went back<br />

then came the churches then came the schools<br />

then came the lawyers then came the rules<br />

then came the trains and the trucks with their loads<br />

and the dirty old track was the telegraph road<br />

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Then came the mines - then came the ore<br />

then there was the hard times then there was a war<br />

telegraph sang a song about the world outside<br />

telegraph road got so deep and so wide<br />

like a rolling river. . .<br />

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And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze<br />

people driving home from the factories<br />

there's six lanes of traffic<br />

three lanes moving slow. . .<br />

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I used to like to go to work but they shut it down<br />

I got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found<br />

yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed<br />

we're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed<br />

and the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles<br />

they can always fly away from this rain and this cold<br />

you can hear them singing out their telegraph code<br />

all the way down the telegraph road<br />

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You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights<br />

when life was just a bet on a race between the lights<br />

you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair<br />

now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care<br />

but believe in me baby and I'll take you away<br />

from out of this darkness and into the day<br />

from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain<br />

from the anger that lives on the streets with these names<br />

'cos I've run every red light on memory lane<br />

I've seen desperation explode into flames<br />

and I don't want to see it again. . .<br />

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>From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed<br />

all the way down the telegraph road

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