Cadillac Road - Blitzen Trapper

When the mill shut down, it tore down the town

My wife looked for the city, yeah but I stuck around

A cold wind blows down an old dirt road where the time blows

But it man God only knows

I spent ten years mournin' for a life that was gone

I spent five more wanderin' like a no-good bum

And now I’m back in the valley gotta make a new start

Gotta change with the times, but I don’t have a heart, now

Now every night when the work bell rings

I gun my Chevy to the Interstate and see what it brings

But I always end up out here all alone

Where it all began out on Cadillac Road

I was lucky in love, but my love ran cold

Doin' late nights drinkin' just to carry that load

When the word come down from a foreman at dawn

«We got two weeks boys and then we all be gone.»

When I got to the house, she was packing the truck

She said, «I'm fresh out o' reasons so goodbye and good luck.»

As I watched her drive south the wind turned cold

And I just started walking without nowhere to go on Cadillac Road

A fire starts in the heart then it grows

'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road

A wise man once said

«You never know just what you’ve got until it’s gone for good,» yeah

I got a teenage boy, he doesn’t know my name

Sometime I go and watch him at his football games

But one of these days I’m gonna tell him the truth

'Bout who his old man is who I was in my youth

'Bout how dreams can die and there’s an old dirt road

Where a house used to stand, used to be our home

But there’s a love that’s pure, you know it’s pure as gold

And sometimes I think about it when I’m drivin' up on that Cadillac Road

A fire starts in the heart then it grows

'Cause up here, on cadillac road

A wise man once said

«You never know just what you’ve got until it’s gone for good,» yeah

'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road

A fire starts in the heart then it grows

Up here, on Cadillac Road

My love is like a wildfire road

'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road

A fire starts in the heart then it grows

Up here, on Cadillac Road

My love is like a wildfire road

'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road

A fire starts in the heart then it grows

Up here, on Cadillac Road

My love is like a wildfire road