he put her out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
he broke her heart, she spent her 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 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
With a note that said I'll love him till I die
And when we buried her beneath the willow