when the mill shut down it tore down the town my wife looked for the city yeah but i stuck around a cold wind blows down an old dirt road where the time but man god only knows i spent ten years mournin for a life that was gone i spent five more wanderin 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 a heart now now every night when the work bell rings i gun my chevy to the interstate and see what it brings but 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 doin late nights drinkin just to carry that load when the word come down from a foreman at dawn we got two weeks boys and then we all be gone when i got to the house she was packing the truck she said i m fresh out o 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 yeah i got a teenage boy he doesn t know my name sometime i go and watch him at his football games but one of these days i m gonna tell him the truth bout who his old man is who i was in my youth  bout 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 drivin 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