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