Jason Isbell - Elephant lyrics

She said Andy, you're better than your past Winked at me and drained her gla** 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 f**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 b**h 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 cla**ic 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