Daddy’s Rented Cadillac – Songs of TK Major

DADDY’S CADILLAC

When I left the high school dance A7
in my daddy’s rented Cadillac
I didn’t know what trouble was Dmin
I didn’t know there was no way back A7

The moon was a hole in the night sky Dmin
heaven knows who was looking in A7
The night was a hole in my life Dmin
and I didn’t know I was falling in A7

I made it past dead man’s curve
and the cliff at the top of the hill
I glided deftly through the hairpin turns
past the old graveyard that’s not quite full

I drove up that twisted mountain road
straight up into the night
Now I was totally all alone
drving through a hole in my life

My heart was pounding but my hands were dry
The engine was throbbing and the gears whined
My mind was racing at the speed of light
and my knuckles on the wheels glowed ghostly white

My life was the road and the road was my life
as it twisted and turned into the night
The road was the world and the world was night
as I rounded the bend and drove straight into the light

My eyes were shadows in the back of my brain
My mind was unravelling and my soul was in flames
The car was gone I was cut loose in space
Dogs from heaven laughed in my face

I was spinning I was falling I was going down
fallilng through a world without light or sound
I was watching from a hill from far away
when the Caddy hit the gas truck —

G r e a t B a l l s o f F l a m e !

Notes/Memo