Sun Kil Moon - I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same Lyrics
I watched the film 'The Song Remains the Same'At the midnight movies when I was a kidAt a Canton, Ohio mall with friendsOne warm summer weekendJimmy Page stood tall on screenI was mesmerized by everythingThe Peter Grant and John Paul Jones dream sequence scenesThe close-up of the mahogany double-necked SGAnd though I loved the sound of the roaring Les PaulWhat spoke to me most was 'Rain Song' and 'Bron-Yr-Aur'And I loved the thunder of Jon Bonham's drumsBut even more I like 'No Quarter's low Fender Rhodes humI don't know what happened or what anyone didFrom my earliest memories I was a very melancholic kidWhen anything close to me at all in the world diedTo my heart, forever, it would be tiedLike when my friend was thrown from his mopedWhen some kind of a big truck back-ended himAnd when the girl who sat in front of me in remedialWas killed in an accident one weekend and quickly forgotten about at schoolAnd when we got the call that my grandmother passedThe nervous tension I'd been feeling for months brokeAnd strangely I laughedThen I went to my bedroom and I laid downAnd in my tears and in the heaviness of everything I drownedThough I kept to myself and for the most part was pretty coyI once got baited and had to clock some undeserving boyOut on the elementary school playgroundI threw a punch that caught him off-guard and knocked him downAnd when I walked away the kids were cheeringAnd though I grinned deep inside, I was hurtingBut not nearly as much as I hurt himHe stood up, his glasses broken and his face was redAnd I was never a schoolyard bullyIt was only one incidentAnd it has always eaten at meI was never the young schoolyard bullyAnd wherever you are, that poor kid, I'm so sorryAnd when I grew older I learned to play guitarWhile everyone else was throwing around a footballWearing bright colors the school issued themParroting passed down phrases and cheer leadingI got a recording contract in 1992From there my name, my band and my audience grewAnd since that time so much has happened to meBut I discovered I cannot shake melancholyFor 46 years now I cannot break the spellI'll carry it through my life and probably carry it downI'll go to my grave with my melancholyAnd my ghost will echo my sentiments for all eternityAnd now when I watch 'The Song Remains the Same'The same things speak to me that spoke to me thenExcept that now the scenes with Peter Grant and Jon BonhamAre different when I think of the deaths that fell upon themI got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa FeI'm going to visit him this SaturdayBetween my travels and his divorce and our time not being what it wasIt's been 15 years since I last saw himHe's the man who signed me back in '92And I'm going to go there and tell him face-to-face, 'thank you'For discovering my talent so earlyFor helping me along in this beautiful musical world I was meant to be in
