http://www.sparkleandfade.com Fall.Glimmer. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:43:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've never been much of a prose writer. This was written a long, long time ago. Enjoy. Jesus Christ I was nervous. I got a little shaky like when I haven’t had a cigarette in a while. I had some other things though, rattlin’ around in my brain ⎯my poor ignorant ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/09/01/shaking/ 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 ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/07/25/regal/ 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 ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/07/07/an-ordinary-life/ 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 ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/07/03/regret/ 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 ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/07/03/94-west/ Something's gotta slip, When my biggest problem's you leaving in the morning Without a kiss goodbye. And my greatest fear is that you'll wake up when I come into bed Yeah, something ought to slip What's your favorite color, darling? I hope it's never blue. All I hope is that we never slip. And that I never regret moving in with ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/03/23/my-biggest-problem/ Sorry for the rhymes. They're seriously unintentional Is this gonna be the guitar that takes you and I to where we want to be, Regardless of how far? Regardless if I'm just playing the neighborhood bar? There's a song in that guitar. And surely it'll be the one that turns us both into stars. And should ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/03/02/como-22nd/ Just one more winter and we'll be free of Minnesota. We'll put into motion what was a simple plan. You in the hospital, me in the band. 'Cause this city has a weight. It's fluorescent and it's a hum that stands on your chest and ends as a spot on your lung. Soon our backs will face ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2008/02/25/the-winter/ And may circumstance never get the better of us As I sit on the bed of some hotel, While over the phone you're in the bed that we picked out all those miles ago. But the minute I get home, I promise you, I'll tell you every story, even those I vowed never to tell. I ... http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2007/12/22/111/ Ill move on to find that I wanted to stay It all goes so fast but I'm in the middle anyway. I’ve always been north, south and in between behind the wheel my three friends, a car, with a dream and some memories. http://www.sparkleandfade.com/2007/10/28/just-some-words/