Mark Knopfler - Telegraph Road lyrics

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
And he ploughed up the ground
By the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came
Walking down the track
And 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 load
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 it's gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There's six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow

I used to like to go to
Work but they shut it down
I've got a right to go to work but
There's no work here to be found
Yes, and they say we're gonna
Have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to reap from
Some seed that's been sowed

And the birds up on the
Wires and 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

Well, I'd sooner forget
But I remember those nights
Yeah, life was just a bet on
A race between the lights
You had your hand on my shoulder
You had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like
You don't seem to care
But just believe in me baby
And I'll take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights
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 wanna see it again

From all of these signs saying
"Sorry but we're closed"
All the way down the Telegraph Road