Blitzen Trapper - Cadillac Road lyrics

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