She said Andy you're better than your past
Winked 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 her floor

If I $#&@ed 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 (*##$ about the weekend crowd
And try to ignore the elephant somehow


She said Andy you crack me up
Sea grains 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


I've buried her a thousand times
And 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