She Was - Ellis Paul, Slaid Cleaves, Jeff Plankenhorn

She ain’t worth the whiskey

She ain’t worth the tears

She ain’t worth the barroom fight

A restless night her ghost still here

She ain’t worth the roses

Lost among the thorns

She ain’t worth the words you’d waste

To mend the trust that’s torn

She ain’t worth the midnight

She ain’t worth the dawn

She ain’t worth the pedestal

That you placed her on

She ain’t worth the hotel sheets

Twisted on the bed

She ain’t worth the tremblin'

Or the whispers that you said

But she was

In truth

You know

She was

She was

And you’re

Fooling yourself

Because

She was

She ain’t worth the mystery

She ain’t worth the risk

She ain’t worth the medicine

Brushed across the lips

She ain’t worth the vertigo

She ain’t worth the fall

She ain’t worth surrender to

The drama of it all

She ain’t worth apologies

She ain’t worth the right or wrong

She ain’t worth the melody

She ain’t worth this song

But she was