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