That Highway Won't Get You to Heaven
By: Beck Hansen

Written by: Beck Hansen

Versions:
  1. That Highway Won't Get You to Heaven (2:46)
    Available on Don't Get Bent Out Of Shape and 1 other release.
    Credits
    Beck Hansen: Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals
 
Lyrics:
That Highway Won't Get You to Heaven [Version (a)]:

Well that highway won't get you to heaven
Won't get you to heaven and it never will
Well that highway won't get you nowhere
Won't get you nowhere and it never will

Well I woke up in the cradle
Now I'm walking like a broken man
I might leave you all my troubles
Where I'm going, I can't take them along

And that highway won't get you to heaven
Won't get you to heaven and it never will
Well that highway won't get you nowhere
Won't get you nowhere and it never will

All your riches were turned to rubbish
When you find out what you've been
You'll find that the only place that road is going
Is to your grave

And that highway won't get you to heaven
Won't get you to heaven and it never will
Well that highway won't get you nowhere
Won't get you nowhere and it never will

I was watching that old railroad
And that highway eatin' up the land
The sun was shining, burned my face off
Now I'm hiding from this world

And that highway won't get you to heaven
Won't get you to heaven and it never will
Well that highway won't get you nowhere
Won't get you nowhere and it never will
And it never will!
 
The Song:

This song from Don't Get Bent Out Of Shape is a somewhat twisted gospel tune. Beck shouts and plays his acoustic guitar, singing lyrics about the highway not going to heaven, which is of course the opposite of what a normal gospel song would preach.

Someone else is singing back-up, but I do not know who it is.
 
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