Cadillac Road Lyrics - All Across This Land - Blitzen Trapper

When the mill shut down, they 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 a 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. 

And 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 workbell 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, 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." 

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, 

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 

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