Mark Knopfler - Telegraph Road [Rome '2005] multicam & FM audio

Palalottomatica, Rome, Italy
13th June 2005
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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 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 and the came the rules
The 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
Telegraph 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 lane of traffic
Three lanes moving slow...

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 telepraph 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 soory but we're closed
All the way down the telegraph road

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[TaconazoRedondo]

Quite possible the greatest guitarist of all time. Quite possibly the most distinctive and most recognisable. Amazing. His sense of melody is phenomenal.

[fIRsTRATmAN]

The strat sounds way better in my opinion check out the other versions of telegraph road from this 2005 tour where the Guitar God is using a strat. UNBELIEVABLE

[153masterchief]

just imagine playing THAT song for 15 minutes in front of over 1000 people. RESPECT MR. KNOPFLER!!!

[Mariella19621]

very nice...🌹🌹💗💓😍🐬💏🎸

[PabloA64]

I have no words...



[mrengftw]

Wow, just wow!!



[fIRsTRATmAN]

fucking unbelievable 

[kostyannovoselov]

@96knopfler now i can't upload complete.

[nascutvara]

fantastico ... knopfler

[fIRsTRATmAN]

Long live Mark Knopfler the Guitar God, Guitar Hero, Guitar Legend.