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Telegraph Road

from Telegraph Road by Stephen Trouvere

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Sometimes it's better just to go.

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These pictures they will come to you in the silence before dawn
Ghostly glowing images you can neither turn off nor turn on.
They will tremble as they rise into the flickering of your eyes and then be gone.
Prepare yourself, prepare
The night is coming on.

And the wind sweeps around this house, you can hear it sighing low.
Just outside the trucks roll by down Telegraph Road.

A man he reaches down to you, his intention is unclear.
And you look around you at the gutterway he has pointed out is here.
You don't believe enough to stand but still you shake his hand and then he disappears.
Well your pockets now are empty, except for a wallet full of fear.

The day has spent itself, you decide to go on home.
You walk along the side streets cause it's not safe on Telegraph Road.

A woman stands beside you. She is a friend though barely known.
She says "The garden stands around us here, though the weeds are overgrown"
"And though the seeds they go untended, undefended, they will grow up wild and strong."
You two are close beyond your reason who knows for how long.
She takes you on her motorcycle, cause you're so eager to go.
And you ride out in the the evening down Telegraph Road.

There are just so many wires, just so many strings,
Just so many people who believe in anything.
There are just so many fireflies in the dark beneath the trees.
Just so many avenues promising release.

Take your chances now, lean behind the load.
And tell me what it's like to see the end of Telegraph Road.

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from Telegraph Road, released September 19, 2017

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Stephen Trouvere St. Louis, Missouri

These songs come from an overstuffed library of work that is just now coming to light. I would love to record more of it for you.

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