- Singer: 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 it took to get up off his knees. We found him with his head against the pillow, with a note that said I'll love her, 'till I die. We laid him next to her beneath the Willow, and the Angels sang a Whiskey Lullaby.