[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [01:47.68]A long time ago came a man on a track [01:52.08]Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back [01:56.10]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best [02:00.97]He made a home in the wilderness [02:07.13]He built a cabin and a winter store [02:10.61]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore [02:15.48]And the other travellers came walking down the track [02:19.03]And they never went further and they never went back [02:26.00]Then came the churches then came the schools [02:29.77]Then came the lawyers then came the rules [02:33.89]Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads [02:37.96]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road [03:07.67]Then came the mines then came the ore [03:11.25]Then there was the hard times then there was a war [03:15.43]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:19.61]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [03:25.38]Like a rolling river [04:17.59]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [04:22.50]People driving home from the factories [04:25.95]There's six lanes of traffic [04:30.38]Three lanes moving slow [06:39.07]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down [06:43.32]I've got a right to go to work but [06:45.33]There's no work here to be found [06:47.17]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed [06:52.38]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed [06:57.50]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles [07:02.18]They can always fly away from this rain and this cold [07:06.21]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [07:09.75]All the way down the telegraph road [07:47.75]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights [07:52.16]When life was just a bet on a race between the lights [07:55.98]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair [08:00.18]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care [08:06.13]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away [08:10.43]From out of this darkness and into the day [08:14.05]From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain [08:18.56]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [08:23.18]Cause I've run every red light on memory lane [08:27.17]I've seen desperation explode into flames [08:32.49]And I don't wanna see it again [08:38.73]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed [08:45.60]All the way down the telegraph road