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Elephant
Jason Isbell Song Lyrics

Artist: Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern (2013)

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
And try to ignore the elephant somehow, somehow.

I've 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.


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Southeastern lyrics Artist: Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern
Release: (2013)
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