Elephant - Jason Isbell

She said, «Andy, you’re better than your past»

Winked at me and drained her glass

Crosslegged on the 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 and sweep up the hair from the floor

If I had 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

Bitch about the weekend crowd

And try to ignore the elephant somehow

Somehow

She said, «Andy, you crack me up»

Seagrams in a coffee cup

Sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone

When she was drunk she made cancer jokes

Made up her own doctor’s notes

Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone

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

Cry about what we used to be

Try to ignore the elephant somehow

Somehow

I’ve buried her a thousand times

Giving 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