[ti:Telegraph Road] [ar:Dire Straits] [al:Alchemy] [by:] [offset:0] [01:55.36]Artist: Dire Straits [01:57.80]Album: Money For Nothing [02:02.23]Title: Telegraph Road [02:15.80] Guitar Solo [02:16.36]A long time ago came a man on a track [02:19.49]Walking thirty miles with a sac on his back [02:23.74]And he put down his load where he thought it was the best [02:27.92]And he made a home in the wilderness [02:33.80]He built a cabin and a winter store [02:37.17]And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore [02:41.86]And the other travellers came riding down the track [02:45.17]And they never went further and they never went back [02:51.50]Then came the churches then came the schools [02:55.63]Then came the lawyers then came the rules [02:59.82]Then came the trains and trucks with their loads [03:03.50]And the dirty old track was the telegraph road [03:09.44] Guitar Solo [03:33.95]Then came the mines - then came the ore [03:37.02]Then there was the hard times then there was a war [03:40.71]Telegraph sang a song about the world outside [03:44.58]Telegraph road got so deep and so wide [03:50.14]Like a rolling river [03:52.77] [03:53.30] Guitar Solo [03:59.24] Guitar Solo2 [04:06.12] Guitar Solo3 [04:59.32]And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze [05:03.63] [05:04.30]People driving from the factories [05:07.29]There's six lanes of traffic [05:10.29]Three lanes moving slow [05:14.11] [05:17.40] Guitar Solo [05:33.34] Guitar Solo2 [06:36.46] Guitar Solo3 [07:16.07]I used to like to go to work but they shut it down [07:18.95]I've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found [07:22.76]Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed [07:27.33]We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed [07:32.89]And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles [07:37.07]They can always run away from this rain and this cold [07:41.13]You can hear them singing out their telegraph code [07:45.20]All the way down the telegraph road [07:52.20] Guitar Solo [08:24.54]You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights [08:28.79]When life was just a bet on race between the light [08:30.79]You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair [08:39.48]Now you act a little colder like you don't seem care [08:43.10]But believe in me baby and I'll take you away [08:44.79]From out of this darkness and into the day [08:47.98]From these rivers of headlights these river of rain [08:52.10]From the anger that lives on the streets with these names [08:56.10]'Cos I've run every rod light on memory lane [09:00.29]I've seen desperation explode into flames [09:04.79]And I don't want to see it again [09:11.10]From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed [09:16.73]All the way [09:32.29]Down the telegraph road