[Verse 1] Dressed in white cotton Staring at the phone I was hiding in the attic The day you left home Mother, I thought I saw you looking back But that big black Cadillac Took you [Verse 2] Father is sleeping Upright in his vest I brush away the ashes That collect on his chest
Oh, he still thinks that you've come back That that big black Cadillac Is turning 'round [Verse 3] Mother, I see you But only in dreams You put me in a basket And you pushed me upstream But I'm always drifting back Where that big black Cadillac Took you