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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 winterstore
and he poughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
and the other travellers came riding down the track
and they never went further and 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

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
Telegrpah road got so deep and so wide like a rolling river...

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...

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
'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

You know I'd sooner forget but i remember those nights
when 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 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
'cos I've run every red light on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode into flames
and I don't wanna see it again..

From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
all the way down the Telegraph road.

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On every street
There's gotta be a record oy You someplace
You gotta be on somebody's book
The lowdown - a picture of your face
Your injured looks
The sacred and profane
The pleasure and the pain
Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete
And it's your face I'm looking for on every street

A ladykiller - regulation tatto
Silver spurs on his heels
says - what can i tell you, as i'm standing next to You
She threw under my wheels
Oh it's a dangerous road
And a hazardous loadV And the fireworks over liberty explode in the heat
And it's your face I'm looking for on every street.

A three-chord simphony crashes into space
The moon is hanging upside down
I don't know why is it, I'm still on the case
It's a ravenous town
And you still refuse to be traced
Seems to me such a waste
And every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
And it's Your face I'm looking for on every street.

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Where do You think You're going?

Where do you think you're going?
Don't you know it's dark outside?
Where do you think you're going?
Don't you care about my pride?
Where do you think you're going?
I think you don't know
You got no way of knowing
There's really no place to go.

I understand your changes
Long before you reach the door
I know where you think you're going
I know what you came here for
And now I'm sick of joking
You know I'd like you to be free
Where do you think you're going?
I think you'd better go with me girl.

You say there is no reason
But you still find cause to doubt me
If you ain't with me girl
You're gonna be without me.

Where do you think you're going?
Don't you know it's dark outside?
Where do you think you're going?
I wish i didn't care about my pride.
And now I'm sick of joking
You know i'd like you to be free
So where do you think you're going?
You'd better go with me girl!

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News
He sticks to his guns
He take the road as it comes
It take the shine off his shoes
He says it's a shame
You know it may be a game
Ah but I won't play to lose

He's burning the grass
He take up a glass
He swallow it neat
He crosses the floor
He open the door
He take a sniff of the street

And then she tell him that he's crazy
She's a-saying hey baby
I'm your wife
Yeah she tell him that he's crazy
For gamnling a-with his life

But he climbs on his horse
You know he feel no remorse
He just kick it alive
His motor is fine
He take it over the line
until he's ready to dive

Abd she tell him that he's crazy
Yes she's saying listen baby
I'm your wife
Yeah she tell him that he's crazy
For gambling with his life

He sticks to his guns
He take the road as it comes
It take the shine off his shoes
He says it's a shame
You know it may be a game
Ah but I won't play to lose

He sticks to his guns
He take the road az is comes
It take the shine off his shoes
He's too fast to stop
He take it over the top
He make a line in the news



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Lady Writer
Lady Writer on the tv
Talk about the Virgin Mary
Reminded me of you
Expectations left to come up to yeah

Lady Writer on the tv
Yeah, she had another quality
The way you used to look
And i know you never read a book

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then i recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place

Lady Writer on the tv
She had all the brains and the beauty
The pciture does not fit
You talked to me when you felt like it

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then i recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place

Yes and your rich old man
You know he'd call her a dead ringer
you got the same command
Plus your mother was a jazz singer

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then i recall my fall from grace
Oh yeah, another time, another place

Lady Writer on tv
She knew all about history
You couldn't hardly write your name
I think i want you just the same as the

Lady Writer on tv
Talking about Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me
And the lady writer on tv
Lady writer on tv
Talking about Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me
And the lady writer on tv.

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Romeo and Juliet

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a conventient streetlight step out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heartattack
He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend'back
You shouldn't come around here singing up the people like that
Anyway what you're gonna do about it?

Juliet the dice were loaded from the start
And i bet and you explode in my heart
And i forget i forget the movie song
When you're gonna realize it was just the time was wrong Juliet?

Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame
Both durty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And i dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if i was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know i used to have a scene with him

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said i love you like the stars above i'll love you till i die
There's a place for us you know the movie song
When you're gonna realize it as just that the time was wrong Juliet?

I can't do the talk like they talk on tv
And i can't do a lovesong like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you

And all i do is miss you
All i do is keep the beat and bad company
All i do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet i'd do the stars with you any time

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said i love you like the stars above i'll love you till i die
There's a place for us you know the movie song
When you're gonna realize it as just that the time was wrong Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a cenventient streetlight steps ou of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about a night?

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The man's too strong
I'm just an ageing drummer boy
And in the wars i used to play
And I've called the tune
Too many a torture session
Now they say I am a war criminal
And I'm fading away
Father pleasse hear my confession

I have legalised robbery
Called it belief
I have run with the money
And hide like a thief
I have re-written history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
And i can still hear his laughter
And i can still hera his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong

Well i have tried to be meek
And i have tri to be mild
But i spat like a woman
And sulked like a child
I have lived behind walls
That have made me alone
Striven for peace
Which i never have known
And i can still hear his laughter
And i can still hear his song
The man's too big
The man's too strong

Well the sun rose on the courtyard
And they all did hear him say
"You always were a Judas
But i got you anyway
You may have got your silver
But i swear upon my life
Your sister gave me diamonds
And i gave them to your wife."
Oh father please help me
For i have done wrong
The man's too big
The man's too strong.

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Brothers in arms

These mistcovered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And allways will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brother in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

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Your latest trick
All the late night bargains have been struck
Between the satin beaus and their bellers
And prehistoric garbage trucks
Have the city to themselves
Echoes roars dinosaurs
They're all doing the monster mash
And most of the taxis and whores
Are only taking calls for cash

I don't know how it happened
It all took place so quick
But all i can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick

My door was standing open
Security was laid back and lax
But it was only my heart broken
You must have had a pass key made out of wax
You played robbery with insolence
And i played the blues in twelwe bars down Lover's Lane
And you never did have the intelligence to use
The twelwe keys hanging off my chain

I don't know how it happened
It all took place so quick
But all i can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick

Now it's past last call for alcohol
Past recall has been here and gone
The landlord finally paid us all
The satin jazzmen have put away their horns
And we're standing outside of this wonderland
Looking so bereaved and looking so bereft
Like a Bowery bum when he finally understands
The bottle's empty and there's nothing left

I don't know how it happened
It all took place so quick
But all i can do is hand it to you
And your latest trick


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Sultans of Swing
You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hera theat music ring

You step inside but you don't seem too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
But not too many horns can make that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town

You check out Guitar George heknows all the cords
Mind he"s strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under light to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
He can play the honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for friday night
With Sultans.. with the Sultans of Swing

And a crowd of young boyys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumper playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans played Creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
"Thank you, goodnight, now it's time to go home"
and he makes it fast with one more thing
"We are the Sultans of Swing"

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Solid Rock
We'll take a look at that
I made a castle in the sand
Saying this is where it's at you know
Couldn't understand now
If i realised that the chances were slim
How come i'm so surprised when the tide rolled in

I wanna live on Solid rock
I'm gonna live on Solid rock
I wanna give I don't wanna be blocked
I'm gonna live on Solid rock

Well i'm sick of potential
I'm sick of vanity now
I'm sticking to essential reality now
I don't know what's worse
Try to make a silk purse
Living an illusion living in confusion

Well a house of cards
Was never built for shock
You could blow it down in any kind of weather
Now two Solid rocks two solid blocks
You know they're gonna stick
Yeah they're gonna stick together

Because the heart that you break
That's one that you rely on
The bed that you make
That's the one you gotta lie on
When you point your finger cos your plan fell through
You got three more fingers pointing back at you

I wanna live on Solid rock
I'm gonna live on Solid rock
I wanna give I don't wanna be blocked
I'm gonna live on Solid rock
I'm Solid rock now

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