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
Made a home in the wilderness

He built a cabin and a winter store
He ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
The other travellers came riding down the track
They never went further, no,
they never went back

Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then 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

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 its gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
Now you've got six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow...

I used to like to go to work
but they shut it all down
I got a right to go to work
but no work here to be found
Yes and they say were gonna have to pay whats owed
Were gonna have to reap from some seed thats been sowed

When the birds up on the wires
and up the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
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
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder
you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder
like you don't seem to care

Why just believe in me baby
and I'll get you away
From out of this darkness
and into the day
From 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
I've seen desperation
explode into flames
And I don't want to see it again...

From all of these signs just saying
sorry but were closed

All the way...
down the telegraph road...

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