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Song: Whiskey Lullaby -- Brad Paisley FT. Allison Krause
Whiskey Lullaby
He had loved her. He had loved her so much. He had let her in, let her see past the barriers he had hidden behind for so many years. He had trusted her. Well, it had been a mistake
She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
He tried for so long to forget her. To forget her eyes, her smile, the feeling of her hand on his cheek, to just forget everything. But no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't seem to do it. So, he began to drink.
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
Night, after night would find him in the Balamb City bar, attempting to drown his sorrows and her memory in glass after glass of whiskey.
And everynight he'd think the same thing. "How could she do this? How could I have let myself trust her?"
All his friends could do was watch. They tried to help, tried to get through to him, to reach out to him, but the Squall that Rinoa had brought out had left along with her. She didn't even seem to notice what she had done to him. She was too busy loving Seifer.
So, all they could do was watch. Watch Squall destroy himself as he slowly drank his pain away. But as hard as he tried, he could never get drunk enough to completely 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
Perhaps it was for the best that he took his life. As hard as it was on his friends, it was much harder for them to watch him lead a lifeless existence. You could see it in his eyes, he had already died a long time ago.
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
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
They found him with a note.
I'll love her till I die
They buried him beneath the weeping willow, weeping just as his soul had been.
And when we buried him beneath the willow La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la.
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
It's sad that that's what it took for her to see what she'd done to him. The blame she placed on herself caused her to follow along the same destructive path as him.
The rumours flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
And just like him, night after night she drank. And just as he had been unable to forget, so was she.
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
She was clinging to his picture when they found her.
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
La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la.
A/N : Well, I hope you guys liked it…I wasnt sure if Balamb City had a bar or not, but if it didn't it does now. :P Thanks for reading, and please review!
-- Twillight-Misery