Whiskey Lullaby
by Isabel
A/N: The song is called Whiskey Lullaby and is owned by Brad Paisley. Read and review everybody and please enjoy!
She put him out
Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life trying to forget
Harry laid in his bed, crying his eyes out. Cho had left him. Destroyed his life and his dreams and his plans forever. He tried to go on with his life. He spent the next couple of years trying to build a life again, trying to forget the painful memories, but never once succeeding. Not one time, during six years, he managed to forget Cho's dark hair and her infective smile.
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
Ron and Hermione watched him and they tried to help him as much as they could. They watched as Harry took his escape into the world of alcohol. They watched as he fought away the memories, one by one. But he could never get drunk enough to forget her entirely.
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
It wasn't until that night that he forgot. That night when he finally drank away her memory. Drank away the inner demons that had haunted him for a good part of the last six years. He knew that life was too short and too valuable to just throw away. But he also knew that this was bigger than that when he gathered the strength to get up off his knees.
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With the note that said "I'll love her 'til I die"
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
Ron and Hermione found him in his bed, face down in the pillow. He had a crumpled note in his hand. I'll love her 'til I die, it said. They buried him beneath the great willow on the field, the one tree that was his and Cho's. When they did so they could swear they heard the angels sing a song. Heard them sing a whiskey lullaby.
The rumours flew
But nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years
She tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
The rumours flew around in the small town, but there was no one at all who really knew how much Cho blamed herself for what had happened. How often she'd said to herself that everything that had happened was no ones but her fault. For years and years she tried to hide all the whiskey that she drank in secret. She tried to hide it on her breath. The whiskey she drank during dark, lonely nights when the only thing holding her company in the empty apartment was the alcohol.
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
Finally she drank the pain away, slowly and a little at a time. One memory at a time loosened the grip on her mind. But the haunting memories never fully left her. That drunk she never managed to be before she passed out on the floor.
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
It wasn't until that night that she finally forgot it all. That night when she drank away his memory, once and for all. She knew perfectly well that she was wasting away a life that many never got the chance to live, but she also knew something else as well. She knew that what she was doing was so much bigger than that. She knew that she did the right thing when she managed to gather strength enough to get up off her knees.
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clanging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby
Her friends found her in her bed, face down in the pillow. She was clinging to the picture of him for dear life, never wanting to let go of him even in death. They laid her next to him beneath the willow and while they did so the angels once again sang a whiskey lullaby for them.