Tuxedo Cadillac

Grey Man’s Tuxedo Cadillac
Keeps on rolling
Past the smokestacks
Of whatever’s churning
Round in my head

You can stand there
Wearing your certainty
You can feel it
Driving you forward
Like a big black car, babe

Now there’s a line
I heard somewhere
About dogs
Clawing at the door
But baby it’s worth knowing --
Chains can spin
For eternity
Rings can glitter
With a life of their own
And on this road
Nobody wins
Without paying
The Grey Man home

So we stood there
In this crazy dream
With our thumbs out
On a bridge above a stream

As if we knew where we’re going

And when the last
Chariot rolled past
The last wagon rocked by
When the last greyhound
Chased the rabbit around

This caddy rolls up and the window rolls down

Now there’s a line
I heard somewhere
About black dogs
Clawing at the door
But baby it’s worth knowing --
Chains can spin
For eternity
Rings can glitter
With a life of their own
And on this road
Nobody wins
Without paying
The Grey Man home


Words by Steven Erikson
Music by Kit Soden