Down Escalator
Liner notes
At some point, I realised that if heaven was going to be full of fundamentalist Christians, I'd prefer to take my chances in the other place. I generally sing this after a famous musician dies and insert them into the jam session in the last verse. I played it at my Uncle Bill's wake, and I think he'd have approved. Mrs Ross was the evangelical leaflet giver-outer in St Andrews. According to legend, I once gave her a flyer.He's an old-fashioned Christian Tory
You can see the dollar signs in his eyes
His spiritual life is hunky-dory
He's bound to go to heaven when he dies
So I'm heading for the down escalator
I'm going to bask in the ovens of hell
Heading for the down escalator
Everyone I love is going to be there as well
I don't think too much of heaven's clientèle
Mrs Ross will be upstairs for eternity
My evil ex-office-mate will be there as well
It doesn't sound like paradise to me
So I'm heading for the down escalator
I'm going to bask in the ovens of hell
Heading for the down escalator
Everyone I love is going to be there as well
Who wants to sing in the choir invisible
When everybody knows the devil has the best tunes?
Jam nights in Hades must be unmissable:
Hendrix on guitar, Liberace on piano, Keith Moon on drums,
Janis Joplin and John Lennon singing,
Linda McCartney on spoons
So I'm heading for the down escalator
I'm going to busk *Busk! I was so proud of that. in the ovens of hell
Heading for the down escalator
Everyone I want to listen to is going to be there as well
Heading for the down escalator
Everyone I love is going to be there as well