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He put her out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
He broke her heart, she spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched her drink his pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off his mind
Until the night..


The rumors flew but nobody know how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind
Until the night


She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow

While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby