DIRE STRAITS - Telegraph Road (Live Remix) lyrics
rate meA 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
>From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed<br />
all the way down the telegraph road
