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Telegraph Road (Live) - Mark Knopfler |
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A long time ago came a man on a track |
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Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back |
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And he put down his load where he thought it was the best |
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He made a home in the wilderness |
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He built a cabin and a winter store |
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And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore |
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And the other travellers came walking down the track |
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And they never went further and they never went back |
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Then came the churches then came the schools |
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Then came the lawyers then came the rules |
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Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads |
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And the dirty old track was the telegraph road |
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Then came the mines then came the ore |
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Then there was the hard times then there was a war |
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Telegraph sang a song about the world outside |
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Telegraph road got so deep and so wide |
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Like a rolling river |
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And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze |
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People driving home from the factories |
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There's six lanes of traffic |
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Three lanes moving slow |
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I used to like to go to work but they shut it down |
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I've got a right to go to work but |
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There's no work here to be found |
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Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed |
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We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed |
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And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles |
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They can always fly away from this rain and this cold |
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You can hear them singing out their telegraph code |
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All the way down the telegraph road |
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You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights |
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When life was just a bet on a race between the lights |
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You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair |
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Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care |
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But believe in me baby and I'll take you away |
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From out of this darkness and into the day |
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From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain |
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From the anger that lives on the streets with these names |
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Cause I've run every red light on memory lane |
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I've seen desperation explode into flames |
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And I don't wanna see it again |
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From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed |
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All the way down the telegraph road |