[02:08.54]A long time ago came a man on a track
[02:12.85]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
[02:16.89]And he put down his load
[02:18.96]Where he thought it was the best
[02:21.46]He made a home in the wilderness
[02:25.00]
[02:27.46]He built a cabin and a winter store
[02:31.07]And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore
[02:35.65]And the other travellers came walking down the track
[02:39.23]And they never went further, no
[02:41.26]They never went back
[02:43.38]
[02:45.34]Then came the churches
[02:47.44]Then came the schools
[02:49.52]Then came the lawyers
[02:51.59]Then came the rules
[02:53.55]Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
[02:57.57]And the dirty old track
[03:00.40]Was the telegraph road
[03:07.24]
[03:26.76]Then came the mines
[03:28.79]Then came the ore
[03:30.68]Then there was the hard times
[03:32.85]Then there was a war
[03:34.83]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
[03:38.86]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
[03:44.18]Like a rolling river...
[03:46.47]
[04:52.62]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
[04:57.11]People driving home from the factories
[05:01.25]Six lanes of traffic
[05:04.10]Three lanes moving slow...
[05:08.11]
[07:09.01]I used to like to go to work
[07:11.02]But they shut it down
[07:12.58]I've got a right to go to work
[07:14.51]But there's no work here to be found
[07:16.63]Yes and they say
[07:18.03]We're gonna have to pay what's owed
[07:21.09]We're gonna have to reap
[07:22.61]From some seed that's been sowed
[07:25.31]
[07:26.95]And the birds up on the wires
[07:29.17]And the telegraph poles
[07:31.09]They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
[07:35.23]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
[07:38.70]All the way
[07:41.63]Down the telegraph road
[07:45.15]
[08:16.20]You know I'd sooner forget
[08:18.08]But I remember those nights
[08:20.24]When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
[08:24.05]You had your head on my shoulder
[08:26.25]You had your hand in my hair
[08:28.21]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care...
[08:32.81]
[08:33.87]But just believe in me baby and I'll take you away
[08:38.18]From out of this darkness and into the day
[08:41.77]From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
[08:46.12]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
[08:50.05]'cos I've run every red light on memory lane
[08:53.86]I've seen desperation explode into flames
[08:58.98]And I don't wanna see it again...
[09:02.68]
[09:04.99]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
[09:10.90]All the way...
[09:12.69]
[09:25.51]Down the telegraph road...
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