LoveAllGone

This song has helped me so much and I just wanted to share the lyrics in hopes that it may be able to help someone else...

"She Can't Save Him"
(with Trisha Yearwood)


She can hear his car, as it pulls in the drive.
She can whisper a prayer: "Thank God, he's alive."
She can meet him at the door; catch him when he falls.
She can even believe that it isn't his fault.
But she can't save him

She can make his coffee, in the cold light of day.
She can make his excuses: tell the boss he'll be late.
She can wave at the neighbors, then kiss him goodbye,
And not say a word 'bout what happened last night.
But she can't save him.

Sometimes she dreams that he's caught in a stream,
And the water keeps pulling him down.
She reaches for him, as he pulls her in.
She wakes just before she drowns.

She can remember the man that he was,
And still shed a tear for what he's become.
She can live in that house until the day,
She sees that it's only herself she can save.
But she can't save him.

And that day she'll know she hasn't failed,
'Cause nothing can change until he saves himself.

No, she can't save him.
No, she can't save him.
No, she can't save him.

FenwayFaithful

ANNNNND now I'm crying. It's good tho. I needed to cry. I really did. Thank you for sharing. Really. Music is good for the soul.

laughabledog

Thank-you so much for that. I don't do all of that, but most of it. I do want to save him and want him to save me, but we are only drowning each other. Falling in love with an alcoholic, I just want to hate myself for not being stronger and more filled with self-esteem to have run away so much earlier on when he did one of the million things that have broken my heart. To have left before I got used to the bad, and attached to the sweet and good. I am so afraid that if I am not stronger, my daughter's going to be an alcoholic, as her father is one, and his parents and sibilings. Life feels so overwhelming . . .but I can't save him.