Memories

At the time I never thought much of it, I never really listened to the song but I knew it didn't sound right coming from my parents. I knew no marriage was perfect, I was old enough to understand that, but I didn't know how bad it was.

We were in the car, driving up to my uncle's house, it's one of the few memories I have left of my family together, and now that I think about it... it was the start of the end. Whenever a song came on the radio my father would sing along; poorly, and with the wrong lyrics and my mother would roll her eyes and tell him to stop. But sometimes my parents would sing a song together and I smiled because I thought it meant the fights that my parents tried to hide were resolving themselves and we were going to stay a family.

I was wrong.

Now that I look back I realize that the only song my parents sang properly together was just foreshadowing the enviable.

I really hate Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.