Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Motorway To Damascus, artist - The Divine Comedy. Date of issue: 28.04.1996
Song language: English
Motorway To Damascus |
| Daybreak on the motorway to Damascus |
| A heavenly angel flagged me down and |
| asked for a ride into town |
| For God’s sake, on the motorway to Damascus |
| This heavenly angel, wise and pure, |
| proceeded with a guided tour: |
| Behold! |
| A shining city of silver grey and white, |
| Of solar-panelled rooftops glinting in the light |
| And wind-power generators turning |
| soundlessly through the night |
| Mid-day on the motorway to Damascus |
| The heavenly angel flapped its wings and |
| told me more exciting things |
| Like how one day this motorway to Damascus |
| Would disappear without trace, the |
| unsustainable replaced |
| Behold! |
| The new New Forest in four |
| hundred shades of green |
| Stretching out before us where it always |
| should have been |
| A botanical thesaurus for as far the eye can see |
| Nightfall on the motorway to Damascus |
| The heavenly angel looked at me and said |
| Well, what’s it gonna be? |
| The long haul, or the shorter way to Damascus? |
| Choose with care and you will find that one |
| day there will come a time |
| When the silhouetted ruin of the |
| crumbling cooling towers |
| Are but ivy-clad reminders of a long-forgotten power |
| Must the monkeys leave Gibraltar’s rock |
| and ravens flee the Tower |
| Before we look and see ourselves for what |
| we really are? |