catalog #SVM-O-V-0014
song: Detroit’s Wheels Aren’t Turning Anymore
artist: Dana Detrick
writer(s): Detrick, Dana Marie (ASCAP)
publisher: Serious Vanity Music (ASCAP)
ASCAP Title Code: 343778434
album: Detroit’s Wheels (single) – We Can Be Heroes
year: 2009
type: Original, Vocal
gender: Female
length: 4:05
tempo:
genre: alternative rock, ballad
sounds like: John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen
keywords: ballad, story, auto industry, General Motors, GM, Chrysler, Ford, bailout, protest, UAW
possible usage: cue for political advertisement
mood: protest, melancholy
points of note:
lyric:
Each day my dad would rise before the dawn
Strap on his steel-toed boots and then be gone
I’d fall back to sleep and dream of when
The factory wouldn’t be the place for him
This would be our day throughout the years
His pride in what he did held back the tears
That hourly wage would buy my first guitar
and I’d proudly state, “My daddy built that car.”
We rested easy knowing that someday
His dedication would provide the way
He’d earned the right to spend his golden years
Without the shame, without poverty fears
But Detroit’s wheels aren’t turning anymore
And maybe, that should be the way
That maybe, a champion retires
But why should that mean we all have to pay
Because Detroit’s wheels aren’t turning anymore
And I try to think that we’ll all be ok
I don’t know why you let them all retire
And they tell me that my daddy has to pray
When he traded off to you an honest day
Each day I hear my dad’s voice on the phone
I ask how everything is back at home
He says he knows they’ll keep those wheels a’turning
I fear it’s a hard lesson we’re all learning
Maybe if your daddy wore tipped shoes
You won’t know why my heart still cries these blues
Maybe you don’t worry how he’ll eat
Or fear that he’ll be living on the street
It won’t be you that changes all your plans
Because some stock exchange got out of hand
But it ain’t you who screams with this guitar
And you can’t say your daddy built that car
