[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:31.05]A long time ago came a man on a track [00:35.19]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back [00:38.07]And he put down his load [00:40.71]Where he thought it was the best [00:43.47]He made a home in the wilderness [00:45.87]He built a cabin and a winter store [00:52.02]And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore [00:56.28]And the other travellers came walking down the track [00:59.31]And they never went further no [01:01.38]They never went back [01:05.73]Then came the churches [01:07.59]Then came the schools [01:08.97]Then came the lawyers [01:10.83]Then came the rules [01:12.69]Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads [01:16.11]And the dirty old track [01:18.60]Was the telegraph road [01:42.81]Then came the mines [01:44.25]Then came the ore [01:46.23]Then there was the hard times [01:48.18]Then there was a war [01:49.89]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [01:53.61]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [02:28.98]Like a rolling river [02:44.70]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [02:48.78]People driving home from the factories [02:53.13]Six lanes of traffic [02:57.33]Three lanes moving slow [05:03.45]I used to like to go to work [05:05.16]But they shut it down [05:07.11]I've got a right to go to work [05:08.82]But there's no work here to be found [05:10.53]Yes and they say [05:12.00]We're gonna have to pay what's owed [05:14.64]We're gonna have to reap [05:16.14]From some seed that's been sowed [05:20.25]And the birds up on the wires [05:22.05]And the telegraph poles [05:23.64]They can always fly away from this rain and this cold [05:27.39]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [05:30.78]All the way [05:33.72]Down the telegraph road [06:05.04]You know I'd sooner forget [06:06.54]But I remember those nights [06:07.62]When life was just a bet on a race between the lights [06:12.42]You had your head on my shoulder [06:14.73]You had your hand in my hair [06:16.62]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care [06:23.22]But just believe in me baby and I'll take you away [06:24.39]From out of this darkness and into the day [06:28.92]From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain [06:31.26]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [06:37.02]'Cos I've run every red light on memory lane [06:38.88]I've seen desperation explode into flames [06:44.79]And I don't wanna see it again [06:50.91]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed [06:57.06]All the way [07:09.75]Down the telegraph road