About This Song
About "Cadillac of the Skies (From "Empire of the Sun")" by John Williams
A P-51 Mustang becomes a boy's prayer. Williams writes 'Cadillac of the Skies' as ascending brass and choir—exhilaration shot through with grief. The plane soars, but the ground holds prison camps and broken families. Here, flight is both escape and elegy, a silver wing against a bruised sky.