Audrey's Wake Songtext

the old girl don?t look herself i mistook her for someone else with her powdered face and piled up hair she?s wearing lipstick for the first time her nails are painted, she looks fine all dressed up like she?s goin? somewhere and all her family come to see her off folks she ain?t seen hide nor hair of for years are all gathered in this room there?s grandpa bill he won?t stick around all his friends are underground he says he?ll be following them soon there are flowers everywhere one by one we all come and stare and say ?that don?t look nothin? like her at all? they pulled all her wrinkles out she always looked like she was worried ?bout something big or something small what do we expect here to pay our last respects and all we do is complain so i get myself a lemonade in the room next door where the grandchildren are playin? their childish games oh audrey, i?m gonna miss you don?t know where you gone, but i know this ain?t you lying in that little box linda, she agrees she says ?you know mike, i can?t even grieve no more,? so i sip my lemonade and Linda talks she says ?it was only three weeks ago we were all down at the grand casino and audrey won three hundred bucks that was before the doctors got her i tried but i could not stop her i knew right then she was out of luck? now the old girl just don?t look herself i mistook her for someone else all dressed up like she was goin? somewhere