*Okay*
She's got house plants
To keep her company
Bought her a goldfish
She named it after me
We look at old photographs
Of lovers come and gone
I ask her if it makes her sad
Says son you've got so much to learn
Chorus
The love and life that you have kept
Smiling on your dying bed
You've got a grace about you yet
Smoking her last cigarette
3 is tea time
She puts on Patsy Cline
Cuts the crusts off sandwiches
And mentions how she don't mind dyin'
Tells stories about Pearl and Earl
Best friends that she once had
We do the dishes
Then she says it's time for bed
Chorus
We ate ice cream
Last night before she slept
No plans for breakfast
Except to read the note she left
Gray and white skies
That day was a blur for me
She made me promise not to cry
So here is a drink I drink to thee
Chorus
She's got house plants
To keep her company
Bought her a goldfish
She named it after me
We look at old photographs
Of lovers come and gone
I ask her if it makes her sad
Says son you've got so much to learn
Chorus
The love and life that you have kept
Smiling on your dying bed
You've got a grace about you yet
Smoking her last cigarette
3 is tea time
She puts on Patsy Cline
Cuts the crusts off sandwiches
And mentions how she don't mind dyin'
Tells stories about Pearl and Earl
Best friends that she once had
We do the dishes
Then she says it's time for bed
Chorus
We ate ice cream
Last night before she slept
No plans for breakfast
Except to read the note she left
Gray and white skies
That day was a blur for me
She made me promise not to cry
So here is a drink I drink to thee
Chorus