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