[02:13.54]A long time ago came a man on a track
[02:17.85]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
[02:21.89]And he put down his load
[02:23.96]Where he thought it was the best
[02:26.46]He made a home in the wilderness
[02:30.19]
[02:32.46]He built a cabin and a winter store
[02:36.07]And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore
[02:40.65]And the other travellers came walking down the track
[02:44.23]And they never went further, no
[02:46.26]They never went back
[02:48.38]
[02:50.34]Then came the churches
[02:52.44]Then came the schools
[02:54.52]Then came the lawyers
[02:56.59]Then came the rules
[02:58.55]Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
[03:02.57]And the dirty old track
[03:05.40]Was the telegraph road
[03:08.24]
[03:31.76]Then came the mines
[03:33.79]Then came the ore
[03:35.68]Then there was the hard times
[03:37.85]Then there was a war
[03:39.83]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
[03:43.86]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
[03:49.18]Like a rolling river...
[03:51.47]
[04:57.62]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
[05:02.11]People driving home from the factories
[05:06.25]Six lanes of traffic
[05:09.10]Three lanes moving slow...
[05:14.11]
[07:14.01]I used to like to go to work
[07:16.02]But they shut it down
[07:17.58]I've got a right to go to work
[07:19.51]But there's no work here to be found
[07:21.63]Yes and they say
[07:23.03]We're gonna have to pay what's owed
[07:26.09]We're gonna have to reap
[07:27.61]From some seed that's been sowed
[07:30.31]
[07:31.95]And the birds up on the wires
[07:34.17]And the telegraph poles
[07:36.09]They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
[07:40.23]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
[07:43.70]All the way
[07:46.63]Down the telegraph road
[07:50.15]
[08:21.20]You know I'd sooner forget
[08:23.08]But I remember those nights
[08:25.24]When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
[08:29.05]You had your head on my shoulder
[08:31.25]You had your hand in my hair
[08:33.21]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care...
[08:37.81]
[08:38.87]But just believe in me baby and I'll take you away
[08:43.18]From out of this darkness and into the day
[08:46.77]From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
[08:51.12]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
[08:55.05]'cos I've run every red light on memory lane
[08:58.86]I've seen desperation explode into flames
[09:03.98]And I don't wanna see it again...
[09:07.68]
[09:09.99]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
[09:15.90]All the way...
[09:17.69]
[09:30.51]Down the telegraph road
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