藝人：Chris Rea
專輯：The Road To Hell
年份：1989
曲名：The Road To Hell

Chris Rea 是英國歌手，歌聲低沈極富魅力，樂風介於搖滾跟流行之間，個人覺得他水準算是中上，並非頂尖，但也不平凡，當歌曲寫的好時既流暢又動感，聽來很順耳，這首地獄之路就是很好的例子。

在這張 The Road To Hell 專輯中，前兩首歌分別是專輯同名曲 The Road To Hell Part1 & Part2，兩首其實是連在一起 non-stop 的長曲。播出的歌曲就是把 Part1 & Part2 完整播出，影片則只有 Part2。

建議將喇叭聲音開很大聲，雖然為了在網路上播放要壓縮檔案必然會傷到一些音質，但還是可感受到 Chris Rea 特製的震撼音效！

Chris Rea - The Road To Hell (1989)

part1

Stood still on a highway
I saw a woman
By the side of the road
With a face that I knew like my own
Reflected in my window
Well she walked up to my quarterlight
And she bent down real slow
A fearful pressure paralysed me in my shadow
She said 'son what are you doing here
My fear for you has turned me in my grave'
I said 'mama I come to the valley of the rich
Myself to sell'
She said 'son this is the road to hell'

On your journey cross the wilderness
From the desert to the well
You have strayed upon the motorway to hell

part2

Well I'm standing by a river
But the water doesn't flow
It boils with every poison you can think of
And I'm underneath the streetlight
But the light of joy I know
Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows
And the perverted fear of violence
Chokes the smile on every face
And common sense is ringing out the bellc
This ain't no technological breakdown
Oh no, this is the road to hell

And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just bits of paper flying away from you
Oh look out world, take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no, this is the road
Said this is the road
This is the road to hell