#half string

We both worked in a record store but I was in the basement doing special orders and she was on the sales floor. She bought the last copy of Key Lime Pie that I had been waiting to get, but then she made me a tape dub with rare Unrest on the b-side. She loaned me a Half String cd and I got her a promo copy of Arches and Aisles. She wasn’t my type, but she was shockingly beautiful, and exotic (I’d never met anyone from Washington DC before) and we started spending a lot of time together. We snuck away from a work party and made love in a field under the stars. Then she told me her parents had arranged a marriage for her and she couldn’t get out of it, quit her job and I never saw her again. I think about her every time I hear this song (she was also a Mats fan)