When all the birds up on the wires and up on the poles
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
And the telegraph road got so deep and so wide like a rolling river
From all of these signs, just sayin', 'Sorry but we're closed'
They never went further, no, they never went back
Three lanes moving slow
People drivin' home from the factories
Made a home in the wilderness
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
Yeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights
We're gonna have to reap from the seed that's sowed
Yeah, and then came the mines, then came the ore
The other travellers came walking down the track
Then came the churches, then came the schools
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Yeah and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
All the way down the telegraph road
You had your head on my shoulder, had your hand in my hair
Now here comes six lanes of traffic
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
I've seen desperation explode into flames
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Built a cabin and a winter store
He ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
Then you can hear them singin' out their telegraph code
My radio says, tonight it's gonna freeze
Now you actin' little colder like you don't seem care
Then came the trains and the trucks with their load
They can always get outta this rain and this cold
'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane
Then there was the hard times, then there was a war
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
And I don't wanna see it again
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 all these rivers of headlights, from these river of rain
And I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
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