Still Down Here

Album: Lorraine (2011)
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  • Lori McKenna wrote this with her friend Barry Dean about losing her sister-in-law Nancy Giroux to cancer. Dean told American Songwriter magazine in August 2014: "The song is talking to the person who has gone away and about how that person is now happy. There is a line in the song that says, 'I'll tell you one thing, believe'em when they say, just don't look down,' because there are people still grieving. There's something about that line, whenever I hear it, it still hurts."

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