"Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead too."
…
"She loved you, you know."
She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life tryin' to forget
Years had passed since that faithful day. I'm 25 now. I could never forget the words her father said to me. "She loved you, you know." I cried that night and every night after I would beat myself up for not seeing it in time. But no matter what, I wanted to forget.
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
I started drinking as soon as I reached legal age. I wanted to forget all about that day, I never want to remember it, I want it gone, I want it to never have happened. I drank every night since I was old enough. I hated my life. I wanted to be with her. I never knew what it was like to fall for someone already gone, but as the years went on, my pain grew, until finally, I drank it all away, I numbed the feeling.
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Leslie who? I don't know whom you're talking about. I feel as though there's something missing in my life though. Oh well. I'm sure I'll find it one day. I continued to drink from that moment on, something in the back of my head saying to keep going; otherwise you'll end up hurt.
Life is short but this time it was bigger
than the strength he had to get up off his knees
we found him with his face down in the pillow
with a note that said I'll love her till I die
I feel, numb, like there's no feeling in my at all. Who are you? Leslie you say? I've heard a few people asking me about you, but I don't know whom– Leslie! Oh Leslie I've missed you. I love you. I'm sorry I didn't realize sooner. I was dead. I knew it. If she was there, it was obvious. I don't care if I died in the process. I was finally with her again.
We laid him next to her beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby
