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| Brad Paisley Alison Krauss |
This song haunts me. I have a friend who started a similar
story, but is choosing a different ending. I deeply admire his efforts
to rebuild a relationship with the mother of his children.
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger .... While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby"
It takes courage to step away from the bottom of a bottle and to make a better choice.
Our
Eternal Father would have us make this choice. Can we learn to love as
he and is son do. To love deeply, strongly and Eternally. The example
was set in Judea 2000 years ago.
They sought to redeem
all of Gods children. They loved Pontius Pilot, Herod, and Saul of
Tarsus as deeply as they loved Peter, James and John.
"She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' 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
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
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
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
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"
Bill Anderson
Copyright: Mr. Bubba Music Inc.
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
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