Indigo Girls Elizabeth song lyrics

Three streets off the grid, we were barely kids

But we were old enough to drink in Louisiana

We listened to ‘The King Must Die', ‘On the Willows' drank the wine

We could afford from the work study manna

Were were young but not that young

To be cutting our fingers and mixing our blood

Climbing the fence of the St. Louis cemetery

We caught on my heart's desire

Big as the 1788 fire

Put on little quennie and bring me another whiskey

Elizabeth, the last I heard, you're in Savannah

You got married after art school happily

I didn't want to look you up, I'm pretty sure it's just enough

That I remember you fondly

I didn't have a car, but I did have a guitar

And I played to my advantage when you let me

I only stayed 2 years, but it still appears

After all of this time the memories still get me

I was young but not that young

To be tied in a knot that was coming undone

The spooks and haunts that vexed me veiled my eyes

It was always dark back then

It was always 3 am

I shake my head to think I made it out alive

Out at night under the lights

Some band is singing a memory

Everybody hits record to play it back over time

But when I look back on our dance

I only wanna hear that music once

And remember it forever in my mind