Telegraph Road

A long time ago came 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
 He made a home in the wilderness
 He built a cabin and a winter store
 And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
 And the other travellers came walking down the track
 And they never went further, no, they never went back
 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 loads
 And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road
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 Then came the mines, then came the ore
 Then there was the hard times, then there was a war
 Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
 Telegraph Road got so deep and so wide
 Like a rolling river
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 And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
 People driving home from the factories
 There's six lanes of traffic
 Three lanes moving slow
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 I used to like to go to work, but they shut it down
 I've got a right to go to work, but there's no work here to be found
 Yes, 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
 And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
 They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
 You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
 All the way down the Telegraph Road
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 Well, I'd sooner forget, but I remember those nights
 Yeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights
 You had your head on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair
 Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
 But just believe in me, baby, and I'll take you away
 From out of this darkness and into the day
 From these rivers of headlights, 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 want to see it again
 From all of these signs saying, "Sorry, but we're closed"
 All the way
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 Down the Telegraph Road