Love Over Gold
Dire Straits
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Telegraph Road
14 : 16
2
Private Investigations
06 : 46
3
Industrial Disease
05 : 50
4
Love Over Gold
06 : 17
5
It Never Rains
07 : 54
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Track Lyrics
Telegraph Road Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, and then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
[Verse 2]
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
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
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
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 4]
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
[Chorus]
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 down the telegraph road
[Instrumental Outro]
Private Investigations Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
It's a mystery to me, the game commences
For the usual fee, plus expenses
Confidential information, it's in a diary
This is my investigation, it's not a public inquiry
[Verse 2]
I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt
You get to meet all sorts in this line of work
Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it
[Verse 3]
And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?
A bottle of whisky and a new set of lies
Blinds on the windows, and a pain behind the eyes
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
Scarred for life, no compensation
Private investigations
[Instrumental Outro]
Industrial Disease Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Now, warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
Somebody threw a spanner, and they threw him in the hole
There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
There's a meeting in the boardroom, they're trying to trace the smell
There's a leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel
Somewhere in the corridors, someone was heard to sneeze
Goodness me, could this be industrial disease?
The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
They're refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most
The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
There's panic on the switchboard, tongues in knots
Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots
Some blame the management, some the employees
And everybody knows it's the industrial disease
[Verse 2]
Yeah, now the work force is disgusted, downs tools, walks
Innocence is injured, experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless, theology is worse
History boils over, there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean industrial disease
[Verse 3]
Doctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smoker's cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get the Betty Davis' knees
But, worst of all young man you've got industrial disease"
He wrote me a prescription he said "You are depressed
I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later, next patient please
Send in another victim of industrial disease, ha-ha-ha-ha
Ha, splendid"
[Verse 4]
And I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm-a thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song, he says
"They want to have a war to keep their factories
They want to have a war to keep us on our knees
They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They want to have a war to stop Industrial Disease
They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They want to sap your energy, incarcerate your mind
Give you Rule Britannia, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease"
Meanwhile the first Jesus says "I'd cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons"
The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets industrial disease?
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
(Oh no, I'm sick)
Love Over Gold Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
You walk out on the high wire
You're a dancer on thin ice
You pay no heed to the danger
And less to advice
Your footsteps are forbidden
But with knowledge of your sin
You throw your love to all the strangers
And caution to the wind
[Verse 2]
And you go dancing through doorways
Just to see what you will find
Leaving nothing to interfere
With the crazy balance of your mind
And when you finally reappear
At the place where you came in
You've thrown your love to all the strangers
And caution to the wind
[Verse 3]
It takes love over gold and mind over matter
To do what you do that you must
When the things that you hold can fall and be shattered
Or run through your fingers like dust
[Instrumental Outro]
It Never Rains Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I hear the Seven Deadly Sins and the Terrible Twins
Came to call on you
The bigger they are, baby
The harder they fall on you
And you, you're always the same you persevere
On the same old pleasure ground
[Refrain]
Oh, and it never rains around here
It just comes pouring down
[Verse 2]
You had no more volunteers, so you got profiteers
For to help you out
Well, with friends like that, babe
Good friends you had to do without
And now they've taken the chains and the gears
From off the ol' merry-go-round
[Refrain]
Oh, and it never rains around here
It just comes pouring down
[Verse 3]
Now, your new Romeo was just a gigolo
When he let you down
See, the faster they are, babe
The faster they get out of town
They're leaving make up stains
And the tears of a clown
[Refrain]
Oh, and it never rains around here
It just comes pouring down
[Bridge]
Oh, you were just a roller coaster memory
I don't know why I was even passing through
Saw you making a date with Destiny
When he came around here asking after you
In the shadow of the Wheel of Fortune
You're busy trying to clear your name
You say "I may be guilty, yeah, that may be true
But I'd be lying if I said I was to blame
See, we could have been major contenders
We never got no money, no breaks
You've got a list of all the major offenders
You got a list of all their major mistakes"
And he just standing in the shadows
Yes and he smile that "come on" smile
Oh I can still hear you say as clear as the day
"I'd like to make it worth your while"
Oh, but it's a sad reminder when your organ grinder
Has to come to you for the rent
And all you've got to give him
Is the use of your side-show tent
Yes, and that's all that remains of the years
Spent doing the rounds
[Refrain]
And it never rains around here
Well, it just comes pouring down
[Outro]
Now you know what they say about beggars, babe
You can't complain about the rules
And you know what they say about beggars
You know who's the first to blame his tools
You never gave a damn about-a who you pick up
And leave-a layin' bleedin' on the ground
You screw people over on your way up
Because you thought that you were never coming down
And he'll take you out in Vaudeville Valley
With his hand up smothering your screams
And he'll screw you down in Tin Pan Alley
In the city of a billion dreams, get out
[Instrumental Outro]