Telegraph Road-Dire Straits

[ti:Telegraph Road] [ar:Dire Straits] [al:Love Over Gold] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.37]Telegraph Road - Dire Straits [00:01.44]Lyrics by：Mark Knopfler [00:02.31]Composed by：Mark Knopfler [00:03.22]Produced by：Mark Knopfler [02:17.25]A long time ago came a man on a track [02:21.48]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back [02:25.17]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best [02:30.02]Made a home in the wilderness [02:36.22]Built a cabin and a winter store [02:39.35]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore [02:44.00]And the other travellers came walking down the track [02:47.43]And they never went further no they never went back [02:54.06]Then came the churches then came the schools [02:57.91]Then came the lawyers then came the rules [03:01.94]Then came the trains and the trucks with their load [03:05.70]And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road [03:35.38]Then came the mines then came the ore [03:39.13]Then there was the hard times then there was a war [03:42.83]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:47.09]Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide [03:52.50]Like a rolling river [05:00.82]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [05:05.28]People driving home from the factories [05:09.05]There's six lanes of traffic [05:12.33]Three lanes moving slow [07:16.93]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down [07:20.05]I've got a right to go to work [07:22.26]But there's no work here to be found [07:24.25]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed [07:28.60]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed [07:34.57]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles [07:38.69]They can always fly away from this rain and this cold [07:42.60]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [07:46.06]All the way down the Telegraph Road [08:23.71]Well I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights [08:27.54]Yeah life was just a bet on a race between the lights [08:31.46]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair [08:35.57]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care [08:41.21]But just believe in me baby and I'll take you away [08:45.38]From out of this darkness and into the day [08:49.10]From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain [08:53.35]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [08:57.31]'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane [09:01.27]I've seen desperation explode into flames [09:06.33]And I don't want to see it again [09:12.45]From all of these signs saying "Sorry but we're closed" [09:17.98]All the way [09:33.05]Down the Telegraph Road