Telegraph Road - Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/1983

And a long time ago come 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

Built a cabin and a winter store

He ploughed the ground by the cold lake shore

The other travellers came walking down the track

They never went further, no they never went back

Then came the churches, then came the schools

Came the lawyers, then came the rules

Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads

And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

Yeah then came the mines, then came the ore

Then there was a-hard times, then there was war

Telegraph sang a song about the world outside

And the Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide

Like a rolling river, yeah

My radio says tonight it's gonna freeze

People driving home from the factories

And you got six lanes of traffic

Three lanes moving slow

Used to like to go to work but they shut it all down

I gotta 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 the seed that's sowed"

When all the birds up on the wires and up on the poles

They can always get out of this rain and this cold

And you can hear them singing out their telegraph code

All the way down the Telegraph Road

And I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights

Yeah, life was just a bet on a race 'tween the lights

You had your head on my shoulder and your hand in my hair

Now you're actin' a little colder like you don't seem to care

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 rivers of rain

From the anger that lives on the streets with these names

'Cause I've run every red light on memory lane

From sheer desperation explode into flames

And I don't wanna see it again

From all of these signs just saying "Sorry, but we're closed"

All the way...

Down the Telegraph Road

Thank you!

Goodnight!

Thank you very much, take care