Elephant

Album: Southeastern (2013)
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  • She said, "Andy, you're better than your past"
    Winked at me and drained her glass
    Cross-legged on a barstool, like nobody sits anymore
    She said, "Andy, you're taking me home"
    But I knew she planned to sleep alone
    I'd carry her to bed, sweep up the hair from her floor

    If I'd fucked her before she got sick
    I'd never hear the end of it
    She don't have the spirit for that now
    We just drink our drinks and laugh out loud
    And bitch about the weekend crowd
    And try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Somehow

    She said, "Andy, you crack me up"
    Seagram's in a coffee cup
    Sharecropper eyes, and the hair almost all gone
    When she was drunk, she made cancer jokes
    Made up her own doctors' notes
    Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone

    But I'd sing her classic country songs
    And she'd get high and sing along
    She don't have a voice to sing with now
    We burn these joints in effigy
    And cry about what we used to be
    Try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Somehow

    I buried her a thousand times, given up my place in line
    But I don't give a damn about that now
    There's one thing that's real clear to me
    No one dies with dignity
    We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Somehow
    Somehow Writer/s: Jason Isbell
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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