Song Description

A song in the style of Conway Twitty about getting over a previous relationship that old friends keep bringing up.

Lyrics

Why Still?

Friends don?t mean it, hers or mine
I know no one wants to see me cry
Who?s not thinking? Who?s just gosh darn blind?
They ought to lend me a billboard, put it on the highway, one big sign

Everywhere I go now, someone says her name
Every song on the radio, it?s a song we both once sang
She could not carry a tune to save her soul
Oh but she carried my heart away and she don?t come around here no more, no, no?

Why Still? Do they ask me about her?
Why Still? After all this time?
Why Still? Can?t no one see I?m without her?
Next time you see her just tell her yourself, you said ?Hi?

I don't dare go near, where our friends are killing time
I'm sort of doomed in a crowded room, who was her pal and who was mine?
Hey question my work, my whiskey, my health; ask about my songs
Oh but darn it I?m just here with me, that girl?s been long, long gone ? long gone?

Why Still? Do they ask me about her?
Why Still? After all this time? All this time?
Why Still? Can?t no one see I?m without her?
Next time you see her just tell her yourself, you said ?Hi?

Why Still? Can?t no one see that she?s gone? Leave me alone!
Why Still? Can?t people see that I?m just here with me? Oh, Why Still?
Why Still? Over, over, over, get it! She?s gone
Why Still? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Why Still? Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Why Still? Over, over, over, get it? She?s gone
Why Still? Gone, gone, gone, gone gone??

Words & music ©2006 John W. Tannehill