Telegraph Road - Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/1983

Lyrics for Telegraph Road - Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/1983

And a long time ago come 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 Made a home in the wilderness Built a cabin and a winter store He ploughed the ground by the cold lake shore The other travellers came walking down the track They never went further, no they never went back Then came the churches, then came the schools Came the lawyers, then came the rules Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road Yeah then came the mines, then came the ore Then there was a-hard times, then there was war Telegraph sang a song about the world outside And the Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide Like a rolling river, yeah My radio says tonight it's gonna freeze People driving home from the factories And you got six lanes of traffic Three lanes moving slow Used to like to go to work but they shut it all down I gotta right to go to work, no work here to be found Yeah and they say, "We're gonna have to pay what's owed" "We're gonna have to reap from the seed that's sowed" When all the birds up on the wires and up on the poles They can always get out of this rain and this cold And you can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the Telegraph Road And I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights Yeah, life was just a bet on a race 'tween the lights You had your head on my shoulder and your hand in my hair Now you're actin' a little colder like you don't seem to care But just believe in me baby, and I'll get you away I'm gonna get you out of this darkness and into the day From all these rivers of headlights, from these rivers of rain From the anger that lives on the streets with these names 'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane From sheer desperation explode into flames And I don't wanna see it again From all of these signs just saying "Sorry, but we're closed" All the way... Down the Telegraph Road Thank you! Goodnight! Thank you very much, take care