I suppose I should have seen this coming. I’d traded cars with a friend for an afternoon. Just a logistics problem, really. When I got the phone call, I knew what he was about to say. Bad news first.
It doesn’t take much to total an old car. You factor in its mileage verses its age. [...]

I remember, I remember everything
Your favorite movie while waiting on the rain
I had plans for a mediocre life. Good ones too.
They all turned to dust the day I met you.
This ordinary life
Meet me in the middle at a barbeque.
This paint by numbers life is coming true.
Can you believe I’m still in love with you?
An ordinary [...]

Can’t say I regret much of anything,
But if I regretted not breaking your heart,
What kind of man would that make me?
It would have made me yours,
If only for the while.
But this is the man I’ve become,
singing on a Sunday to no one.
Such a long way from home.
Parking lots and sidewalks
With only one little regret,
Having never [...]

When you’ve given up and you’re tired,
Hey, just go back to Madison.
Where all your friends were beautiful,
6 feet tall, and listened to what you’d call country.
Old school stuff like Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Fucking Cyrus.
You’re the dumpster baby doll whose trailer park pedigree’s come calling.
And you’ll head west down 94.
Milwaukee just isn’t the place [...]