Telegraph Road

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[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 1]
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 A long time ago came a man on a track
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Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back
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And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
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  He made a home in the wilderness
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 He built a cabin and a winter store
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And he plowed up the ground by the cold lake shore
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  And the other travelers came walking down the track
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And they never went further,
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and they never went back

[Chorus]
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Then came the churches,
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then came the schools
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Then came the lawyers,
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then came the rules
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Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
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And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 2]
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 Then came the mines, then came the ore
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Then there was the hard times,
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then there was a war
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Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
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Telegraph road got so deep   and so wide
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      Like a rolling river

[Chorus]
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[Solo 1]
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[Interlude 1]
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[Interlude 2]
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 And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
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People driving home from the factories
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There's six lanes of traffic
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  Three lanes moving slow

[Bridge]
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[Bridge / Solo]
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[Break]
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[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 3]
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I used to like to go to work,
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but they shut it down
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I've got a right to go to work,
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but there's no work here to be found
Yes,
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and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
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We're gonna have to reap from some seed   that's been sowed

[Chorus]
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  And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
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They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
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You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
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All the way down the telegraph road

[Pre-Verse]
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[Verse 4]
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 Well, I'd sooner forget,
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but I remember those nights
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When life was just a bet on a race  between the lights
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You had your head on my shoulder,
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you had your hand in my hair
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Now you act a little colder,
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like you don't seem to care

[Chorus]
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      But just believe in me, baby,
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and I'll take you away
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From out of this darkness and into the day
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From these rivers of headlights,
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 these rivers of rain
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From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
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Cause I've run every red light on memory lane
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I've seen desperation explode into flames
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  And I don't want to see it again

[Break]
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From all of these signs saying, "sorry,
but we're closed"
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All the way
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    Down the telegraph road

[Pre-Verse]
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[Outro]
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[Solo 3 / Outro]
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[Fade Out]
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