Motorway To Damascus Lyrics - Singles - Rentals

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?