[ti:telegraph road live]
[ar:Dire Straits]
[al:money for nothing]
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[00:38.69]Telegraph Road -  Dire Straits
[02:03.01]A long time ago came a man on a track
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[02:07.05]Walking thirty miles with a sac on his back
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[02:10.84]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
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[02:15.73]And he made a home in the wilderness
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[02:21.99]He built a cabin and a winter store
[02:23.64]
[02:24.82]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
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[02:29.33]And the other travellers came riding down the track
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[02:32.27]And they never went further and they never went back
[02:35.65]
[02:38.11]Then came the churches then came the schools
[02:40.99]
[02:41.69]Then came the lawyers then came the rules
[02:45.49]Then came the trains and trucks with their loads
[02:49.19]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
[02:53.08]
[03:17.08]Then came the mines  then came the ore
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[03:20.47]Then there was the hard times then there was a war
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[03:23.98]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
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[03:27.57]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
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[03:32.82]Like a rolling river
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[04:35.86]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
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[04:40.33]People driving from the factories
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[04:43.24]There's six lanes of traffic
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[04:47.75]Three lanes moving slow
[04:51.42]
[06:51.03]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
[06:54.34]
[06:54.90]I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
[06:58.06]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
[07:01.21]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
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[07:07.50]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
[07:10.53]
[07:11.13]They can always run away from this rain and this cold
[07:14.90]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
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[07:18.24]All the way down the telegraph road
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[07:53.36]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
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[07:57.05]When life was just a bet on race between the light
[08:00.92]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
[08:05.12]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem care
[08:09.32]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
[08:13.59]From out of this darkness and into the day
[08:17.19]From these rivers of headlights these river of rain
[08:21.31]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
[08:25.09]Cause I've run every rod light on memory lane
[08:28.69]I've seen desperation explode into flames
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[08:33.33]And I don't want to see it again
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[08:39.68]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
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[08:46.03]All the way
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[08:59.03]Down the telegraph road
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