Dear Editor,
A week or so ago I was driving along, listening to a local radio station playing the usual seasonal music – “and now it’s Chris Rea with Driving Home for Christmas”. But actually it wasn’t that track at all – through my speakers came his classic Road to Hell.
At first this was funnybecause at the time, I was enduring a bad half-hour on the EN125– our very own “road to hell” – but, as I listened, the last verse of Rea’s 1989 songbecame far more sobering, bringing me back to the reality of today and why we are in this mess:
“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
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 to hell.”
(Lyrics Copyright 1989 Chris Rea)
Bill Perchard
Lagos
