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