"Elephant" lyrics - JASON ISBELL

She said, "Andy, you're better than your past."
Winked at me and drained her glass
Cross-legged 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 hear 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.
Seagram's 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 the voice to sing with now

We'd burn these joints in effigy
Cry about what we used to be
And try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

I 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