The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
689-Chris Rea-The Road To Hell.
1989-Number 10 single.
Best Bit-At 2.22 Bloody speed cameras and roadworks and middle lane drivers.
Chris Rea wrote the lyrics while feeling frustrated by being in peak-hour traffic on the M25 Motorway.At the start of the song he imagines the ghost of his dead mother approaching his vehicle and warning him he is on ‘The Road To Hell’ and that he should choose a different path through life.
‘I said mama,i come to the valley of the rich,myself to sell,she said son this is the road to hell.’
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