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Lyrics: Telegraph Road

Artist: Dire Straits
Song: Telegraph Road
Released: 1982
Rating: 60.0 out of 100Please log in to rate this song.
Telegraph Road lyrics
A long time ago came a man on a track
walking thirty miles with a pack on his back
and he put down his load where he thought it was the best
he made a home in the west
he built a cabin and a winter store
and he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
and the other travellers came riding down the track
and they never went further and they never went back
then came the churches then came the schools
then came the lawyers then came the rules
then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
and the dirty old track was the telegraph road

Then came the mines - then came the ore
then there was the hard times then there was a war
telegraph sang a song about the world outside
telegraph road got so deep and so wide
like a rolling river. . .

And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
people driving home from the factories
there's six lanes of traffic
three lanes moving slow. . .

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
we're gonna have to reap from seed that's been sowed
and the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
they can always fly away from this rain and this cold
you can here them singing out their telegraph code
all the way down the telegraph road

You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
when life was just a bet on a race between the lights
you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
but believe in me baby and I'll take you away
from out of this darkness and into the day
from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
from the anger that lives on the streets with these names
'cos I've run every red light on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode into flames
and I don't want to see it again. . .

From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
all the way down the telegraph road

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dummy Guest wrote on 29th Mar 2007, 7:22h:
Great song!

Knopfler shows why Dire Straits is a gift to the World of Music!

Dire Straits is only second to Pink Floyd when it comes to lyrics.
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dummy Guest wrote on 5th Dec 2006, 2:58h:
One of a few songs in which music and lyrics are living a symbiotic interaction. Only seen in a handfull of other songs.
Can I suggest you listen to the music after the lines 'like a rolling river' and 'three lanes moving slow'?
Then you know better
what I'm talking about. Or maybe you agree with me and listen to this song every week, because you want to...
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