"Goddess on a Hiway" is the first single from Mercury Rev's fourth studio album, Deserter's Songs.
B-sides include a cover of "I Only Have Eyes for You" featuring musician Sean O'Hagan.
The song's lyrics takes advantage of homonymy: the first verse contains the lines "I got us on a highway, I got us in a car..." This changes to "She's a goddess on a highway, a goddess in a car..." In October 2011, NME placed it at number 122 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
[1] "Goddess" was originally written by Mercury Rev frontman Jonathan Donahue in 1989[2] while he was still a member of The Flaming Lips.
Donahue was reluctant to work on the old song, and had to be convinced to resurrect it for the album.