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[ar:Mark Knopfler]
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[00:01.76]Telegraph Road (Live) - Mark Knopfler
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[01:47.68]A long time ago came a man on a track
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[03:25.38]Like a rolling river
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[04:17.59]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
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[04:22.50]People driving home from the factories
[04:25.95]There's six lanes of traffic
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[04:30.38]Three lanes moving slow
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[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
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[06:57.50]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
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[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
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[07:47.75]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
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[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
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[08:06.13]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away
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[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
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[08:32.49]And I don't wanna see it again
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[08:38.73]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
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[08:45.60]All the way down the telegraph road