| When the mill shut down, it tore down the town
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| My wife looked for the city, yeah but I stuck around
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| A cold wind blows down an old dirt road where the time blows
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| But it man God only knows
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| I spent ten years mournin' for a life that was gone
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| I spent five more wanderin' like a no-good bum
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| And now I’m back in the valley gotta make a new start
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| Gotta change with the times, but I don’t have a heart, now
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| Now every night when the work bell rings
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| I gun my Chevy to the Interstate and see what it brings
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| But I always end up out here all alone
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| Where it all began out on Cadillac Road
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| I was lucky in love, but my love ran cold
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| Doin' late nights drinkin' just to carry that load
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| When the word come down from a foreman at dawn
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| «We got two weeks boys and then we all be gone.»
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| When I got to the house, she was packing the truck
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| She said, «I'm fresh out o' reasons so goodbye and good luck.»
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| As I watched her drive south the wind turned cold
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| And I just started walking without nowhere to go on Cadillac Road
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| A fire starts in the heart then it grows
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| 'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road
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| A wise man once said
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| «You never know just what you’ve got until it’s gone for good,» yeah
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| I got a teenage boy, he doesn’t know my name
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| Sometime I go and watch him at his football games
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| But one of these days I’m gonna tell him the truth
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| 'Bout who his old man is who I was in my youth
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| 'Bout how dreams can die and there’s an old dirt road
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| Where a house used to stand, used to be our home
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| But there’s a love that’s pure, you know it’s pure as gold
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| And sometimes I think about it when I’m drivin' up on that Cadillac Road
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| A fire starts in the heart then it grows
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| 'Cause up here, on cadillac road
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| A wise man once said
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| «You never know just what you’ve got until it’s gone for good,» yeah
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| 'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road
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| A fire starts in the heart then it grows
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| Up here, on Cadillac Road
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| My love is like a wildfire road
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| 'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road
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| A fire starts in the heart then it grows
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| Up here, on Cadillac Road
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| My love is like a wildfire road
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| 'Cause up here, on Cadillac Road
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| A fire starts in the heart then it grows
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| Up here, on Cadillac Road
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| My love is like a wildfire road |