Telegraph Road (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/1983)-Dire Straits

[ti:Telegraph Road (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/1983)] [ar:Dire Straits] [al:Alchemy: Dire Straits Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.27]Telegraph Road (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/1983) - Dire Straits [00:01.89]Lyrics by：Mark Knopfler [00:02.54]Composed by：Mark Knopfler [00:03.20]Produced by：Mark Knopfler [02:24.16]A long time ago came a man on a track [02:28.01]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back [02:31.93]And he put down his load [02:33.95]Where he thought it was the best [02:36.69]He made a home in the wilderness [02:43.01]He built a cabin and a winter store [02:45.76]And he plowed up the ground [02:47.37]By the cold lake shore [02:50.20]Your the other travelers [02:51.27]Came walking down the track [02:53.19]They never went further no [02:55.00]They never went back [02:59.25]Then came the churches [03:00.95]Then came the schools [03:02.93]Then came the lawyers [03:04.51]And then came the rules [03:06.33]Then came the trains [03:07.47]And the trucks with their loads [03:09.94]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road [03:37.76]Then came the mines [03:39.46]Then came the ore [03:41.00]Then there was the hard times [03:42.64]Then there was a war [03:44.68]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:48.22]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [03:53.16]Like a rolling river [04:55.92]My radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [04:59.97]People driving home from the factories [05:03.04]There's here come six lanes of traffic [05:07.80]Three lanes moving slow [07:10.25]I used to like to go to work [07:12.06]But they shut it down [07:13.85]I've got a right to go to work [07:15.72]No work here to be found [07:17.14]Yes and they say we're gonna have to [07:19.52]Pay what's owed [07:21.25]We're gonna have to reap [07:23.32]From some seed that's been sowed [07:26.35]When are the birds up on the wires [07:28.62]And the telegraph poles [07:30.25]They can always fly away [07:31.69]From this rain and this cold [07:33.70]And you can hear them [07:35.22]Singing out their telegraph code [07:37.55]All the way down the telegraph road [08:12.10]You know I'd sooner forget [08:13.97]But I remember those nights [08:15.93]Yeah life was just a bet on a race [08:18.58]Between the lights [08:19.51]You had your head on my shoulder [08:21.71]Had your hand in my hair [08:23.33]Now you act a little colder [08:25.49]Like you don't seem to care [08:28.02]But it just believe in me baby [08:30.71]And I'll take you away [08:32.17]From the get you out of this darkness [08:34.56]And into the day [08:35.97]From these rivers of headlights [08:38.10]From these rivers of rain [08:39.79]From the anger that lives [08:41.47]On the streets with these names [08:43.80]'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane [08:47.35]I've seen desperation explode into flames [08:51.92]And I don't want to see it again [08:58.16]From all of these signs saying [08:59.70]Sorry but we're closed [09:03.97]All the way [09:17.23]Down the telegraph road