Honey Sing Lullaby Analysis

She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
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

[1st Chorus]
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 he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby

(Sing lullaby)

The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could
This is seen in the second line where it says, "She broke his heart he spent his whole life trying to forget." Everybody knows that a broken heart comes from unfaithfulness and it is something that can sometimes not be recovered in a whole lifetime, that is why he "spent his whole life trying to forget."
This is for all of those who are still confused about how they died. The lyrics say, "We watched him drink away his pain a little at a time / But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind... He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger." This means that he drank a lot because he thought that with the drinking his pain of what had happened, would stop with alcohol. But in the end alcohol was not strong enough for either of them so they "pulled the trigger" they shot themselves as the only solution for actually bringing an end to their pain. Or he finally drank so much that he got alcohol poisoning and he didn’t get to the hospital so he