Telegraph Road
Dire Straits
A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back And he put down his load where he thought it was the best And he made a home in the wilderness He built a cabin and a winter store And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore And the other travellers came walking down the track And they never went further, no they never went back Then came the churches; then came the schools Then came the lawyers and then came the rules Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads And the dirty old track was the telegraph road Then came the mines, then came the ore Then there was the hard times then there was a war Telegraph sang a song about the world outside Telegraph road got so deep and so wide like a rolling river... And my radio says "tonight it's gonna freeze" People driving home from the factories There's six lanes of traffic, three lanes moving slow... I used to like to go to work but they shut it down I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found Yes, and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out the telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights When life was just a bet on a race between the lights You had your hand on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care... But believe in me baby and I'll take you away From out of this darkness and into the day From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain From the anger that lives on these streets with these names 'Cos I've run every red light on memory lane I've seen desperation explode into flames and I don't wanna see it again... From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed All the way...down the telegraph road1980s 1982 80s 80s rock ailenroc80s ailenrocsongs all time faves amazing Armageddon art Awesome Awesome Guitar Jams Ballad beautiful best ever best music best song ever blues blues rock british Byron cathartic classic rock classics country rock cyril selection rock cyril selection souvenirs dire straits easy listening englischunterricht epic excellent Favorite Bands favorite song favorite tracks favorites Favourite Songs Favourites folk golden oldies goldies good shit great great guitar great guitar solo great riff great solo guitar Guitar Gods guitar masters guitar rock herzzerreissend hippie I love them inspiration for the generation ioshi Kloron - Top 500 van 2006 knopfler la compil a fafa lazy legend live Love love over gold m-really good Makes me happy in pants Mark Knopfler me70s Mellow Memories of the 90s mobydoc morning motivating moving music to fall asleep to my music nice to hear No 1 Old Good Music old rock orgasmic rock Other Great Tracks piano piosenki na dola premium prog prog rock Progressive Progressive rock radio01 rock Rock and Roll Simply good songs over 6 minutes souvenirs du temps jadis ten minute rock songs tojemoje top 2000 Top-Hits void
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