Telegraph Road 1977 & 2024

Lady with your dogs, living in a doorway on Telegraph Road
What have you seen? What happened to you? What led you this way?
You find yourself in Berkley, the Golden Gate Bridge extends before your feet
Well, it's a complicated place, these hills, those millions that walk on through, but nowhere for you

And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city
And you lost your life somewhere
Maybe on Broadway
Maybe some other street
And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city
And you lost your life somewhere
Maybe on Broadway
Maybe some other street

And maybe it's not this city that brought you to this day
Could have been Chicago, perhaps LA
What sights? What loves? What pains?
I wonder, lady, what's your hi-history?
Could have been some roses along the way
Or strange mysteries that led you to this doorway
Oh-ho, oh, with only your dogs for company

And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city
And you lost your life somewhere
Maybe on Broadway
Maybe some other street
And I guess that San Francisco's a lonely city
And you lost your life somewhere
Maybe on Broadway
Maybe some other street

So decades flew right on by
Fast-forward, now I'm singing my father's words about you
Luck brought me through your town, it's built on big ideas and power
But the streets are still lined with those who call 'em home and maybe always will
I wonder too your name, your face, your fate forever in my mind
Sat with your dogs up there on Telegraph Road