Telegraph Road 1977 & 2024

Lady with your dogs

Living in a doorway on Telegraph Road

What have you seen?

What happened to you?

What led you this way?

You find yourself in Berkeley

The Golden Gate Bridge extends before your feet

Well, it's a complicated place

These hills, those millions who walk on through

But nowhere for you

And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city

And you lost your life somewhere

Maybe on Broadway, maybe some other street?

And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city

And you lost your life somewhere

Maybe on Broadway, maybe some other street?

And maybe it's not this city that brought you to this day

Could have been Chicago, perhaps L.A.

What sights? What loves? What pains?

I wonder lady, what's your history?

Could have been some roses along the way or strange mysteries

That led you to this doorway

Oh, with only your dogs for company

And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city

And you lost your life somewhere

Maybe on Broadway, maybe some other street?

And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city

And you lost your life somewhere

Maybe on Broadway, maybe some other street?

So, decades flew right on by

Fast forward, now I am

Singing my father's words about you

Luck brought me through your town, it's built on big ideas and power

But the streets are still lined with those who call 'em home and maybe always will

I wonder too your name, your face, your fate

Forever in my mind sat with your dog's up there on Telegraph Road