It was the Senior School yearbook, the class of '63 I'll forget the way you gave your book and pen to me It was all talked out and settled, you I'd understand A girl with dreams as big as yours just had to some plans
So I turned to your best picture, likely to succeed The only one in the whole damn that didn't show you with me And it said that you liked strength, so I tried to be true to form And I hid my teenage broken heart, I signed this poem
I you always drive a Cadillac I hope you always drink I you always shine with the sunshine I you never have to face the rain
Unless the clouds are lined with silver, may every You meet be and may you find the world as kind As you've been told, at the ten class reunion They read personal note and displayed your cover photograph
In your full length coat, but the words underneath the picture Were what most to me There was something in between the no one else could see
It said, I always drive a Cadillac, I always champagne And if you time while the sun shines You never have to face the rain, I travel because I go alone Everybody bought and sold
And I wondered if you'd really become cold That was the last word anyone heard you I got your card today, a single line and signature That said, "I'm coming to stay"
I wonder what life has done to you, I why you thought of me But if you stop by to say hello, I wonder you'll think if you see An old ragged high school yearbook that falls open to just one With a picture of a young girl's face full of beauty, and rage
But the words the picture Is the verse that's so true the one I swore no one would read Unless I it to you
I you always drive a Cadillac I you always drink champagne And you'll my heart wherever you go Even if I never see you
But if you it back home to me Maybe then it'll mean you That the strongest love's the love let's you go I you always drive a Cadillac