[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [02:03.02]A long time ago came a man on a track [02:07.05]Walking thirty miles with a sac on his back [02:10.84]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best [02:15.73]And he made a home in the wilderness [02:21.99]He built a cabin and a winter store [02:24.82]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore [02:29.33]And the other travellers came riding down the track [02:32.27]And they never went further and they never went back [02:38.11]Then came the churches then came the schools [02:41.69]Then came the lawyers then came the rules [02:45.49]Then came the trains and trucks with their loads [02:49.19]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road [03:17.08]Then came the mines  then came the ore [03:20.47]Then there was the hard times then there was a war [03:23.98]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:27.57]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [03:32.82]Like a rolling river [04:35.86]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [04:40.33]People driving from the factories [04:43.24]There's six lanes of traffic [04:47.75]Three lanes moving slow [06:51.03]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down [06:54.90]I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found [06:58.06]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed [07:01.21]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed [07:07.50]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles [07:11.13]They can always run away from this rain and this cold [07:14.90]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [07:18.24]All the way down the telegraph road [07:53.36]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights [07:57.05]When life was just a bet on race between the light [08:00.92]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair [08:05.12]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem care [08:09.32]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away [08:13.59]From out of this darkness and into the day [08:17.19]From these rivers of headlights these river of rain [08:21.31]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [08:25.09]Cause I've run every rod light on memory lane [08:28.69]I've seen desperation explode into flames [08:33.33]And I don't want to see it again [08:39.68]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed [08:46.03]All the way [08:59.03]Down the telegraph road