{"id":26,"date":"2016-07-17T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2016-07-03T02:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T06:57:29","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-telegraph-road-dire-straits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/lyric-of-the-week-telegraph-road-dire-straits\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Telegraph Road (Dire Straits)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>The first time that I heard this week’s song, I knew it was something special. The way it follows the history of a thoroughfare, from boom to bust, is storytelling at its best.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Telegraph Road<\/em><\/a> by Dire Straits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A long time ago came a man on a track<\/em>
\nWalking thirty miles with a sack on his back<\/em>
\nAnd he put down his load where he thought it was the best<\/em>
\nMade a home in the wilderness<\/em><\/p>\n

He built a cabin and a winter store<\/em>
\nAnd he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore<\/em>
\nAnd the other travellers came walking down the track<\/em>
\nAnd they never went further, no, they never went back<\/em><\/p>\n

Then came the churches, then came the schools<\/em>
\nThen came the lawyers, then came the rules<\/em>
\nThen came the trains and the trucks with their load<\/em>
\nAnd the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road<\/em><\/p>\n

Then came the mines, then came the ore<\/em>
\nThen there was the hard times, then there was a war<\/em>
\nTelegraph sang a song about the world outside<\/em>
\nTelegraph Road got so deep and so wide<\/em>
\nLike a rolling river<\/em><\/p>\n

And my radio says tonight it’s gonna freeze<\/em>
\nPeople driving home from the factories<\/em>
\nThere’s six lanes of traffic<\/em>
\nThree lanes moving slow<\/em><\/p>\n

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down<\/em>
\nI’ve got a right to go to work but there’s no work here to be found<\/em>
\nYes, and they say we’re gonna have to pay what’s owed<\/em>
\nWe’re gonna have to reap from some seed that’s been sowed<\/em><\/p>\n

And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles<\/em>
\nThey can always fly away from this rain and this cold<\/em>
\nYou can hear them singing out their telegraph code<\/em>
\nAll the way down the Telegraph Road<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I’d sooner forget, but I remember those nights<\/em>
\nYeah, life was just a bet on a race between the lights<\/em>
\nYou had your hand on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair<\/em>
\nNow you act a little colder like you don’t seem to care<\/em><\/p>\n

But just believe in me baby and I’ll take you away<\/em>
\nFrom out of this darkness and into the day<\/em>
\nFrom these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain<\/em>
\nFrom the anger that lives on the streets with these names<\/em>
\n‘Cause I’ve run every red light on memory lane<\/em>
\nI’ve seen desperation explode into flames<\/em>
\nAnd I don’t wanna see it again<\/em><\/p>\n

From all of these signs saying “Sorry but we’re closed”<\/em>
\nAll the way down the Telegraph Road<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining or clever lyrics which you’d like to see featured as a Lyric of the Week<\/strong>, drop me a line in the comments (or email me at ed@suitcasefullofdimes.com<\/a>) and tell me what you<\/em> find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time that I heard this week’s song, I knew it was something special. The way it follows the history of a thoroughfare, from boom to bust, is storytelling at its best. Enjoy Telegraph Road by Dire Straits. A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a sack … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Telegraph Road (Dire Straits)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}