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Introduction: Em7 G6 A7/4
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She said Andy you're better than your past,
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winked at me and drained her glass,
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cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore.
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She said Andy you're taking me home,
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but I knew she planned to sleep alone.
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I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor
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If I had fucked her before she got sick
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I'd never hear the end of it
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she don't have the spirit for that now
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We drink these drinks and laugh out loud,
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bitch about the weekend crowd,
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and try to ignore the elephant somehow
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somehow
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She said Andy you crack me up,
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Seagram's in a coffee cup,
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sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone.
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When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
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she made up her own doctor's notes,
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surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone.
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I'd sing her classic country songs
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and she'd get high and sing along.
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She don't have much voice to sing with now
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We'd burn these joints in effigy,
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cry about what we used to be,
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and try to ignore the elephant somehow.
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Somehow
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I buried her a thousand times,
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given up my place in line,
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but I don't give a damn about that now
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There's one thing that's real clear to me,
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no one dies with dignity.
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We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
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We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
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We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow.
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Somehow.