[Verse 1]
Dressed in white cotton
Staring at the phone
I was hiding in the attic
The day you left home

[Chorus]
Mother, I thought I saw you looking back
But that big black Cadillac
Took you

[Verse 2]
Father is sleeping
Upright in his vest
I brush away the ashes
That collect on his chest

[Chorus]
Oh, he still thinks that you've come back
That that big black Cadillac
Is turning 'round

[Verse 3]
Mother, I see you
But only in dreams
You put me in a basket
And you pushed me upstream
[Chorus]
But I'm always drifting back
Where that big black Cadillac
Took you