[Verse 1:]
When the mill shut down, it tore down the town
My wife had gone to sea, yeah but I stuck around
A cold wind blows down an old dirt road
Where the time goes?
But oh man God only knows
I spent ten years mourning for a life that was gone
I spent five more wandering like a no-good bum
Now I'm back in the valley
Gotta make a new start
Gotta change with the times
But I don't have the heart
Now every night when the work bell rings
I drive my Chevy to the Interstate
And see what it brings
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
Doing late nights drinking
Just to carry that load
When the word came down
From a foreman at dawn
“You got two weeks boys and then we'll all be gone."
When I got to the house, she was packing the truck
She said " I'm fresh outta 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
[Chorus:]
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."
[Verse 2:]
I got a teenage boy
He doesn't know my name
Sometimes I go
And watch him at his football games
One of these days
I'm gonna tell him the truth
About who his old man is
Who I was in my youth
About 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 driving up on that Cadillac Road
[Chorus]
[Outro:]
‘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