Part 1:
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Stood still on a highway
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I saw a woman
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By the side of the road
With a face that I knew like my own
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Reflected in my window
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Well she walked up to my quarterlight
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And she bent down real slow
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A# fearful pressure paralysed me
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In my shadow
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She said "Son, what are you doing here?
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My fear for you has turned me in my grave"
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I said "Mama, I come to the valley of the rich
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Myself to sell"
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She said "Son, this is the road to Hell"
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On your journey 'cross the wilderness
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From the desert to the well
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You have strayed upon the motorway to Hell
Part 2
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Well I'm standing by the river,
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But the water doesn't flow.
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It boils with every poison -
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You can think of.
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And I'm underneath the street light,
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The delighted of joy I know,
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Scared beyond belief,
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Way down in the shadows.
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And the perverted fear of violence,
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Chokes a smile on every face,
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A# common sense is ringing, out the bells.
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This ain't no technological breakdown,
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Oh-no, this is the road to hell.
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And as the roads jam up with credit,
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And there's nothing you can do,
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It's all just bits of paper,
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Flying a way from you.
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Oh look out world take a good look,
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Look who's down there,
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You must learn this lesson fast, and learn it well.
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This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway,
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Oh-no, this is the road,
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This is the road,
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This is the road ... to hell.