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Cadillac Dreams
Rewrite of Kiss song by the same name
When I was just 17
I found just what it means
I did't want nothing
No one easy and free
The fight was what made me
Give a damn
No, I ain't gonna listen
To no preacher trying to say
Love is what you give away
Not what you get greedy for and take
I've heard that message
One too many times
Still around my heart
It has't broken down that wall
Baby, I can't be the one
Won't be the one tellin' you no lies
No, I won't settle for anything less then
The brightest diamond ring
No, oh no don't matter
Even if you're a guy who down below
Rocks the biggest size
I want money, money
Love would be nice too
But only if it comes attached
To my greatest need
Cause I got cadillac dreams
Dreams no poor mister
Ever gonna be good enough to share with me
Give me money, money
Sweet green all I' ll ever need
I got cadillac dreams
Waitin' on the perfect millionaire to come along
Come along and marry me
Well I've seen the hard days of those young boy blues
And oh no I don't wanna get hooked up
Knocked up
Sharing some poor boy's blues
Don't ever wanna get used to
The hard way
Living with a new heartache everyday
Stone cold reality
It don't matter a thing to me
Ain't ever gonna feel it crushing down on me
Cause I got a plan
Never to be caught
Sinking in any quicksand
I can marry old and still have a lover young
Ready and hard for me
Baby, I won't be feelin' no shame
When I was 17
I was an angry one
Caught between girl and woman
But I knew even then
Better than anybody
Just what and how much it would take
To make me who I am
Who I wanna so bad be
Chorus
Sorry baby but there just ain't no maybe
If you're making anything less then plently
Never be nothin' between you and me
No free ride
Gonna make me cast aside or forget
My golden cadillac dreams
When I was 17
I was an angry one
Caught between girl and woman
But I knew even then
Better than anybody
Just what and how much it would take
To make me who I am
Who I wanna so bad be
Sorry baby but there just ain't no maybe
If you're making anything less then plently
Never be nothin' between you and me
No free ride
Gonna make me cast aside or forget
My golden cadillac dreams
Don't have the time of day
For any guy tryin' to get in
Get in and abort my dream
Before it's had a chance to be born
No, ain't no one gonna take
Ain't no one gonna take that away from me
Solo
When I was 17
I saw in the mirror
The start of a true blue beauty queen
One who would eventfully have
The world at her feet
If she just bypassed
The temptation of some random hunk's backseat
When you want all the best things money can buy
Sometimes you gotta betray
Even you
To get what you want the most
Sometimes those secret longing parts of you
Have to die
So you can reach that blue, blue sky
Chorus
Give me money, money
Sweet green all I' ll ever need
I got cadillac dreams
Waitin' on the perfect millionaire to come along
Come along and marry me
Oh oh won't ever give up my sweet cadillac dreams
So baby I'm cuttin' our ties
Before this all gets too heavy
Crushing my cadillac
Sweet cadillac dreams
2013 Ramona Thompson
Thank you Nightlite. Got
Thank you Nightlite. Got talent now just hope I can make publishers see it.
That's some good 'gangsta'
That's some good 'gangsta' lyric writing, Ramona. Only thing is, you have it all now...but you don't see it. What good is it to have a dream and not even know it is yours? You are very talnted and I wanted to share that with you. Talent is worth more than anything money can buy.
..... Keep writing!!
...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "