Elephant (Live)

She said, "Andy, you're better than your past"

Winked at me and drained her glass

Cross-legged on a barstool, like nobody sits anymore

She said, "Andy, you're takin' me home"

But I knew she planned to sleep alone

I'd carry her to bed, sweep up the hair from the floor

If I'd fucked her before she got sick

I'd never hear the end of it

And 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"

Seagrams in a coffee cup

Sharecropper eyes, and the hair almost all gone

When she was drunk, she made cancer jokes

She made up her own doctor's notes

And surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dyin' alone

So I'd sing her classic country songs

She'd get high and sing along

But she don't have much voice to sing with now

We burn these joints in effigy

Cry about what we used to be

Try to ignore the elephant somehow

Somehow

Somehow

I 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

We just try to ignore the elephant somehow

We just try to ignore the elephant somehow

Somehow

Somehow