Divine Comedy - Motorway To Damascus Lyrics
Daybreak on the motorway to damascusA heavenly angel flagged me downAnd asked for a ride into townFor gods sake, on the motorway to damascusThis 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 lightAnd wind-power generators turning soundlessly through the nightMid-day on the motorway to damascusThe heavenly angel flapped its wingsAnd told me more exciting thingsLike how one day this motorway to damascusWould disappear without trace, the unsustainable replacedBehold! the new new forest in four hundred shades of greenStretching out before us where it always should have beenA botanical thesaurus for as far as the eye can seeNightfall on the motorway to damascusThe heavenly angel looked at meAnd said well, whats 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 timeWhen the silhouetted ruins of the crumbling cooling towersAre but ivy-clad reminders of a long-forgotten powerMust the monkeys leave gibraltars rock and ravens flee the towerBefore we look and see ourselves for what we really are?
