Lyrics Motorway To Damascus.lrc The Divine Comedy
[id: pshkuvls]
[ar: The Divine Comedy]
[al: The Frog Princess (A Casanova Companion No. 3)]
[ti: Motorway To Damascus]
[length: 04:23]
[00:18.84]Daybreak on the motorway to Damascus
[00:38.21]A heavenly angel flagged me down
[00:44.67]And asked for a ride into town
[00:49.31]For God’s sake, on the motorway to Damascus
[00:54.12]This heavenly angel, wise and pure, proceeded with a guided tour:
[01:04.14]”Behold! A shining city of silver grey and white,
[01:11.04]Of solar-panelled rooftops glinting in the light
[01:18.91]And wind-power generators turning soundlessly through the night”
[01:28.15]Mid-day on the motorway to Damascus
[01:34.08]The heavenly angel flapped its wings
[01:41.63]And told me more exciting things
[01:45.96]Like how one day this motorway to Damascus
[01:51.55]Would disappear without trace, the unsustainable replaced
[02:02.39]”Behold! The new New Forest in four hundred shades of green
[02:10.12]Stretching out before us where it always should have been
[02:17.76]A botanical thesaurus for as far as the eye can see”
[02:27.87]Nightfall on the motorway to Damascus
[03:05.15]The heavenly angel looked at me
[03:12.46]And said “Well, what’s it gonna be?
[03:16.90]The long haul, or the shorter way to Damascus?
[03:22.67]Choose with care and you will find that one day there will come a time
[03:33.43]When the silhouetted ruins of the crumbling cooling towers
[03:40.60]Are but ivy-clad reminders of a long-forgotten power”
[03:47.87]Must the monkeys leave Gibraltar’s rock and ravens flee the Tower
[03:57.25]Before we look and see ourselves for what we really are?
[04:07.42]Year of Release: 1996