Telegraph Road

[02:16.90] A long time ago came a man on a track

[02:21.16] Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back

[02:24.86] And he put down his load where he thought it was the best

[02:29.33] Made a home in the wilderness

[02:35.74] He built a cabin and a winter store

[02:39.12] And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore

[02:44.18] And the other travellers came walking down the track

[02:47.34] And they never went further, no, they never went back

[02:53.61] Then came the churches, then came the schools

[02:57.81] Then came the lawyers, then came the rules

[03:01.76] Then came the trains and the trucks with their load

[03:05.96] And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

[03:35.16] Then came the mines, then came the ore

[03:38.84] Then there was the hard times, then there was a war

[03:42.77] Telegraph sang a song about the world outside

[03:46.79] Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide

[03:52.09] Like a rolling river

[05:00.32] And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze

[05:04.87] People driving home from the factories

[05:09.17] There's six lanes of traffic

[05:11.99] Three lanes moving slow

[07:16.45] I used to like to go to work but they shut it down

[07:19.82] I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found

[07:23.76] Yes, and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed

[07:28.32] We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed

[07:33.89] And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles

[07:38.65] They can always fly away from this rain and this cold

[07:42.56] You can hear them singing out their telegraph code

[07:45.88] All the way down the Telegraph Road

[08:23.33] Well, I'd sooner forget, but I remember those nights

[08:27.30] Yeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights

[08:31.24] You had your hand on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair

[08:35.51] Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care

[08:40.80] But just believe in me baby and I'll take you away

[08:45.32] From out of this darkness and into the day

[08:49.02] From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain

[08:53.32] From the anger that lives on the streets with these names

[08:57.05] 'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane

[09:00.99] I've seen desperation explode into flames

[09:06.05] And I don't wanna see it again

[09:11.97] From all of these signs saying "sorry but we're closed"

[09:17.70] All the way down the Telegraph Road