From the recording Elaine
Elaine tells the haunting story of a woman whose emotional pain is dismissed from girlhood to her final breath. At its core, the song is a powerful commentary on generational negligence — the quiet damage passed down when one’s voice is continually silenced, minimized, or ignored.
Through each verse, we see Elaine seek connection and understanding, only to be met with the same hollow response: “That’s life, get over it.” It’s not just a phrase — it becomes a legacy. Her mother, worn down and unfulfilled, never learns to listen. And in the end, she unknowingly hands her discontent to Elaine, who may carry it forward in silence.
This song isn’t just a story — it’s a reflection. A reminder that breaking cycles of emotional dismissal begins with truly hearing one another.
Lyrics
A young girl walks down the street lost and confused, she finds a woman, sitting on a bench, feeding the birds as they fly by
She sits down beside the woman, and she tells her all her worries and fears
She looks at the girl with tears in her eyes, and she says these words
Elaine, that’s life, get over it
Well the young girl’s now a teen with new problems and complications
She seeks out the woman this time with more lines on her face
She looks into the woman's eyes, expresses difficulties in her life, the woman just smiles and repeats those same old words
Elaine, that’s life, get over it. Elaine, that’s life, get over it.
Well the young girl’s now old looking back on her pointless life
She still cries every night to suppress her fright
The woman’s now departed, fallen cold from a sickness, she was unfulfilled in life
She passed that fear down to her daughter Elaine who will die just the very same
Elaine, that’s life, get over it
Elaine, that’s life, get over it
Elaine, that’s life, get over it
Get over it
Get over it
Get over it