She put him out,
Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life trying to forget
Haymitch Abernathy had spent his whole life trying to forget Maysilee Donner. He tried everything, but nothing ever worked.
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
The people of district 12 watched their victor drown his sorrows in a bottle. Though he never did seem to get drunk enough to make his memories go away, to make the pain stop. The doctors told him he had to stop drinking or he wouldn't last much longer, but he just couldn't stop. He was broken beyond repair, and the one person who could fix him was gone. Dead.
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
He 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
One night it all was just too much and he drank one too many. He fell to his knees and thought "Get up! Get up! You've faced death before, common you can do it get up!" but it was more than he had the strength for, so he let go, and slowly slid to the floor.
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said ill love her till I die
They found him lying dead on the kitchen floor, holding a note that said he would love "her" until he died. Sadly Katniss shook her head and let a tear roll down her face. "He's probably up there in heaven with Maysilee right now, laughing at me for crying" came her bitter-sweet thought.
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels played a whiskey lullaby
They decided to bury him beneath a big willow tree, right next to the grave of Maysilee Donner. She could have been imagining it, but katniss swore she head a tune float through the air. Though as soon as she started to listen, it was gone.
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la