Elephant

Song Elephant
Artist Jason Isbell
Album Southeastern

Lyrics

[ti:Elephant]
[ar:Jason Isbell]
[al:Southeastern]
[offset:0]
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[00:15.76] She said Andy you're better than your past
[00:19.06]
[00:20.24] Winked at me and drained her glass
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[00:23.74] Cross-legged on the barstool
[00:25.99] Like nobody sits anymore
[00:28.75]
[00:31.49] She said Andy you're taking me home
[00:35.12] But I knew she planned to sleep alone
[00:38.68]
[00:39.80] I'd carry her to bed and sweep up
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[00:47.75] The hair from the floor
[00:50.52] If I hadd f**ked her before she got sick
[00:54.41] I'd never hear the end of it
[00:58.55] She don't have the spirit for that now
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[01:03.07] We drink these drinks and laugh out loud
[01:07.02] Bitch about the weekend crowd
[01:10.59]
[01:12.23] And try to ignore the elephant somehow
[01:16.18]
[01:18.75] Somehow
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[01:30.73] She said Andy you crack me up
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[01:34.87] Seagrams in a coffee cup
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[01:38.87] Sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone
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[01:46.29] When she was drunk she made cancer jokes
[01:49.17] She made up her own doctor's notes
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[01:54.32] Surrounded by her family
[01:56.88] I saw that she was dying alone
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[02:02.22] I'd sing her classic country songs
[02:05.16] And she'd get high and sing along
[02:08.86]
[02:10.07] She don't have much voice to sing with now
[02:15.13]
[02:17.64] We'd burn these joints in effegy
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[02:21.30] Cry about what we used to be
[02:24.43]
[02:25.24] And try to ignore the elephant somehow
[02:28.19] Somehow
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[02:37.03] I buried her a thousand times
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[02:41.35] Giving up my place in line
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[02:44.68] But I don't give a damn about that now
[02:49.14]
[02:51.96] There's one thing that's real clear to me
[02:56.04] No one dies with dignity
[02:59.49] We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
[03:05.01]
[03:07.39] We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
[03:12.79]
[03:15.28] We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
[03:20.44]
[03:23.24] Somehow
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[03:25.00] Somehow