Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell - Carl Perkins' Cadillac lyrics

Life ain't nothing but a blending up
Of all the ups and downs
Dammit Elvis, don't you know
You made your Mama so proud
Before you ever made that record
Before there ever was a Sun
Before you ever lost that Cadillac
That Carl Perkins won

Mr phillips found old Johnny Cash
And he was high
High before he ever took those
Pills and he's still too
Proud to dieMr phillips never said
Anything behind nobody's back
Like "Dammit Elvis, don't he know
He ain't no Johnny Cash

"If Mr phillips was the only man that
Jerry Lee still would call sir
Then I guess MrPhillips did all of y'all
About as good as you deservе
He did just what he said he was gonna
Do and thе money came in sacks
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac
I got friends in Nashville
Or at least they're folks I know
Nashville is where you go to see
If what they said is so
Carl drove his brand new Cadillac to
Nashville and he went downtown
This time they promised him a Grammy
He turned his Cadillac around

Mr phillips never blew enough hot air
To need a little gold-plated paperweight
He promised him a Cadillac and put
The wind in Carl's face
He did just what he said he was gonna
Do and the money came in sacks
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac

Dammit Elvis
I swear son I think it's time you came around
Making money you can't spend ain't
What being dead's about
You gave me all but one good reason not
To do all the things you did
Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me
You'd call it quit's