Telegraph Road-Mark Knopfler

[00:01.76]Telegraph Road (Live) - Mark Knopfler [00:03.27] [01:47.68]A long time ago came a man on a track [01:51.38] [01:52.08]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back [01:55.20] [01:56.10]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best [01:59.50] [02:00.97]He made a home in the wilderness [02:03.68] [02:07.13]He built a cabin and a winter store [02:09.55] [02:10.61]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore [02:14.03] [02:15.48]And the other travellers came walking down the track [02:18.29] [02:19.03]And they never went further and they never went back [02:22.44] [02:26.00]Then came the churches then came the schools [02:28.98] [02:29.77]Then came the lawyers then came the rules [02:33.04] [02:33.89]Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads [02:37.33] [02:37.96]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road [02:42.43] [03:07.67]Then came the mines then came the ore [03:11.25]Then there was the hard times then there was a war [03:14.83] [03:15.43]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:18.91] [03:19.61]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [03:24.30] [03:25.38]Like a rolling river [03:26.69] [04:17.59]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [04:21.66] [04:22.50]People driving home from the factories [04:25.95]There's six lanes of traffic [04:28.75] [04:30.38]Three lanes moving slow [04:33.88] [06:39.07]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down [06:42.48] [06:43.32]I've got a right to go to work but [06:45.33]There's no work here to be found [06:47.17]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed [06:51.09] [06:52.38]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed [06:55.30] [06:57.50]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles [07:01.53] [07:02.18]They can always fly away from this rain and this cold [07:05.60] [07:06.21]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [07:09.75]All the way down the telegraph road [07:14.93] [07:47.75]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights [07:51.08] [07:52.16]When life was just a bet on a race between the lights [07:55.44] [07:55.98]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair [08:00.18]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care [08:03.59] [08:06.13]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away [08:09.58] [08:10.43]From out of this darkness and into the day [08:14.05]From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain [08:17.98] [08:18.56]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [08:22.52] [08:23.18]Cause I've run every red light on memory lane [08:26.55] [08:27.17]I've seen desperation explode into flames [08:30.67] [08:32.49]And I don't wanna see it again [08:34.26] [08:38.73]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed [08:42.03] [08:45.60]All the way down the telegraph road