Telegraph Road [Alchemy]

Lyrics

[Verse 1] A long time ago, come a man on a track Walkin' 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 Built a cabin and a winter store And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore The other travellers came walking down the track They never went further, no, they never went back [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] Yeah, and then came the mines, and then came the ore Then there was the hard times, then there was a war Telegraph sang a song about the world outside The telegraph road got so deep and so wide, like a rolling river [Bridge] My radio says tonight it's gonna freeze People drivin' home from the factories Now you've got six lanes of traffic Three lanes moving slow [Verse 3] Used to like to go to work, but they shut it all down I got a right to go to work, no work here to be found Yeah, 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 [Chorus] When all the birds up on the wires and up on the poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singin' out in telegraph code Down the telegraph road [Verse 4] And I'd sooner forget, but I remember those nights Yeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights Yeah, you had your head on my shoulder, had your hand in my hair Now you act a little colder, like you don't seem care [Chorus] But just believe in me, baby, and I'll get you away I'm gonna get you out of this darkness and into the day From these rivers of headlights, from 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 just sayin', 'Sorry but we're closed' All the way Down the telegraph road