I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same-Sun Kil Moon

[ti:I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same] [ar:Sun Kil Moon] [al:Benji] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same - Sun Kil Moon [00:24.33]I watched the film [00:25.81]'The Song Remains the Same' [00:29.39]At the midnight movies when I was a kid [00:34.92]At a Canton [00:35.84]Oh mall with friends [00:40.41]One warm summer weekend [00:46.33]Jimmy Page stood tall on screen [00:51.33]I was mesmerized by everything [00:56.45]The Peter Grant and [00:58.41]John Paul Jones dream sequence scenes [01:02.87]The close-up of the mahogany Double SG [01:08.28]And though I loved the sound of the roaring Les Paul [01:13.99]What spoke to me most was [01:17.08]'Rain Song' and 'Bron-Yr-Aur' [01:31.22]And I loved the thunder of Jon Bonham's drums [01:36.89]But even more I like [01:38.89]'No Quarter's Fender Rhodes' hum [01:54.98]I don't know what happened [01:56.75]Or what anyone did [01:58.25] [02:00.51]From my earliest memories [02:03.07]I was a very melancholic kid [02:06.13]When anything close to me at all in the world died [02:11.51]To my heart forever [02:14.08]It would be tied [02:16.77]Like when my friend was thrown from his moped [02:22.18]When some kind of a big truck back-ended him [02:27.54]And when the girl who sat in front of me in remedial [02:32.86]Was killed in an accident one weekend [02:36.35]And quickly forgot about at school [02:38.94]And when we got the call [02:40.76]That my grandmother passed [02:45.01]The nervous tension [02:46.57]I'd been feeling for months broke [02:49.58]And strangely I laughed [03:02.48]Then I went to my bedroom [03:04.99]And I laid down [03:07.99]And in my tears and in the heaviness of [03:11.11]Everything I drowned [03:43.45]Though I kept to myself [03:44.74]And for the most part was pretty coy [03:49.44]I once got baited [03:51.14]And had to clock some underserving boy [03:55.10]Out on the elementary school playground [03:57.30] [03:59.54]I threw a punch that caught him off-guard [04:02.64]And knocked him down [04:05.13]And when I walked away the kids were cheering [04:10.21]And though I grinned deep inside [04:12.71]I was hurting [04:15.91]But not nearly as much as I hurt him [04:20.82]He stood up [04:22.22]His glassed broken and his face was red [04:27.30]And i was never a schoolyard bully [04:33.66]It was only one incident [04:36.63]And it has always eaten at me [04:50.69]I was never the young schoolyard bully [04:56.36]And wherever you are [04:58.68]That poor kid [05:00.58]I'm so sorry [05:14.79]And when I grew older [05:16.15]I learned to play guitar [05:20.07]While everyone else was throwing around a football [05:25.67]Wearing bright colors the school issued them [05:30.86]Parroting passed down phrases and cheerleading [05:36.49]I got a recording contract in 1992 [05:41.95]From there my name [05:43.70]My band and my audience grew [05:45.53] [05:47.33]And since that time so much has happened to me [05:52.95]But I discovered I cannot shake melancholy [05:58.68]For 46 years now I cannot break the spell [06:04.46]I'll carry it through my life [06:07.45]And probably carry it down [06:21.91]I'll go to my grave with my melancholy [06:27.63]And my ghost will echo [06:30.47]My sentiments for all eternity [07:03.15]And now when I watch [07:04.51]'The Song Remains the Same' [07:08.58]The same things speak to me [07:10.87]That spoke to me then [07:12.28] [07:14.37]Except that now the scenes with [07:16.01]Peter Grant and Jon Bonham [07:17.97] [07:19.80]Are different when I think of the deaths [07:22.75]That fell upon them [07:25.10]I got a friend who lives in the desert [07:27.64]Outside Santa Fe [07:30.97]I'm going to visit him this Saturday [07:33.34] [07:35.75]Between my travels and his divorce [07:38.41]And our time not being what it was [07:42.39]It's been 15 years since I last saw him [07:47.00]He's the man who signed me back in 1992 [07:53.14]And I'm going to go there [07:55.51]And tell him face-to-face - 'thank you' [08:10.42]For discovering my talent so early [08:15.82]For helping me along in this beautiful musical world [08:21.85]I was meant to be in