Thank you.
She said, Andy, you're better than your past
Wanked at me and drained her glass
Cross-legged on a bar stool 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 the floor
If I'd * her before she got sick
I'd never hear the end of it
And she don't have the spirit for that now
We drink our drinks and laugh out loud
Bitch about the weekend crowd
And try to ignore the elephant sun
But 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
She made up her own doctor's notes
And surrounded by her family
I saw that she was dying alone
So I'd sing her classic country songs
She'd get high and sing along
But she don't have much 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
Somehow
give her strength


But I'll never see a thing
She'dip her head off
Why does the patient yearn?

And do I still live?

In my house and in my heart

No, I'm not gonna pay back
My debt and good-for-profit
telling me my children don't know
It was for the last time, but we're through with her
I've buried her a thousand times
I've given up my place in life
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
You 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
Thank y'all. Thanks to Amanda and Gary for staying up here and helping me out with that song.