Chris Rea – The Road To Hell (Guitar Intro)

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Stood still on a highway

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I saw a woman by the side of the road

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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 paralyzed me 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

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Well, I'm standing by a 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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But the light 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 the smile on every face,

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Common sense is ringing out the bell.

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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 all 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 away from you.

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Oh, look out world, take a good look,

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Look who's down here,

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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.