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