I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same

Song I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same
Artist Sun Kil Moon
Album Benji

Lyrics

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[00:24.34] I watched the film
[00:25.82] ‘The Song Remains the Same’
[00:29.40] At the midnight movies when I was a kid
[00:34.93] At a Canton,
[00:35.85] Oh mall with friends
[00:40.42] One warm summer weekend
[00:46.34] Jimmy Page stood tall on screen
[00:51.34] I was mesmerized by everything
[00:56.46] The Peter Grant and
[00:58.42] John Paul Jones dream sequence scenes
[01:02.88] The close-up of the mahogany Double SG
[01:08.29] And though I loved the sound of the roaring Les Paul
[01:14.00] What spoke to me most was
[01:17.09] ‘Rain Song’ and ‘Bron-Yr-Aur’
[01:31.23] And I loved the thunder of Jon Bonham’s drums
[01:36.90] But even more I like
[01:38.90] ‘No Quarter’s Fender Rhodes’ hum
[01:54.99] I don’t know what happened
[01:56.76] or what anyone did
[01:58.26]
[02:00.52] From my earliest memories
[02:03.08] I was a very melancholic kid
[02:06.14] When anything close to me at all in the world died
[02:11.52] To my heart, forever,
[02:14.09] it would be tied
[02:16.78] Like when my friend was thrown from his moped
[02:22.19] When some kind of a big truck back-ended him
[02:27.55] And when the girl who sat in front of me in remedial
[02:32.87] Was killed in an accident one weekend
[02:36.36] and quickly forgot about at school
[02:38.95] And when we got the call
[02:40.77] that my grandmother passed
[02:45.02] The nervous tension
[02:46.58] I’d been feeling for months broke
[02:49.59] And strangely I laughed
[03:02.49] Then I went to my bedroom
[03:05.00] and I laid down
[03:08.00] And in my tears and in the heaviness of
[03:11.12] everything I drowned
[03:43.46] Though I kept to myself
[03:44.75] and for the most part was pretty coy
[03:49.45] I once got baited
[03:51.15] and had to clock some underserving boy
[03:55.11] Out on the elementary school playground
[03:57.31]
[03:59.55] I threw a punch that caught him off-guard
[04:02.65] and knocked him down
[04:05.14] And when I walked away the kids were cheering
[04:10.22] And though I grinned deep inside,
[04:12.72] I was hurting
[04:15.92] But not nearly as much as I hurt him
[04:20.83] He stood up,
[04:22.23] his glassed broken and his face was red
[04:27.31] And i was never a schoolyard bully
[04:33.67] It was only one incident
[04:36.64] And it has always eaten at me
[04:50.70] I was never the young schoolyard bully
[04:56.37] And wherever you are,
[04:58.69] that poor kid,
[05:00.59] I’m so sorry
[05:14.80] And when I grew older
[05:16.16] I learned to play guitar
[05:20.08] While everyone else was throwing around a football
[05:25.68] Wearing bright colors the school issued them
[05:30.87] Parroting passed down phrases and cheerleading
[05:36.50] I got a recording contract in 1992
[05:41.96] From there my name,
[05:43.71] my band and my audience grew
[05:45.54]
[05:47.34] And since that time so much has happened to me
[05:52.96] But I discovered I cannot shake melancholy
[05:58.69] For 46 years now I cannot break the spell
[06:04.47] I’ll carry it through my life
[06:07.46] and probably carry it down
[06:21.92] I’ll go to my grave with my melancholy
[06:27.64] And my ghost will echo
[06:30.48] my sentiments for all eternity
[07:03.16] And now when I watch
[07:04.52] ‘The Song Remains the Same’
[07:08.59] The same things speak to me
[07:10.88] that spoke to me then
[07:12.29]
[07:14.38] Except that now the scenes with
[07:16.02] Peter Grant and Jon Bonham
[07:17.98]
[07:19.81] Are different when I think of the deaths
[07:22.76] that fell upon them
[07:25.11] I got a friend who lives in the desert
[07:27.65] outside Santa Fe
[07:30.98] I’m going to visit him this Saturday
[07:33.35]
[07:35.76] Between my travels and his divorce
[07:38.42] and our time not being what it was
[07:42.40] It’s been 15 years since I last saw him
[07:47.01] He’s the man who signed me back in 1992
[07:53.15] And I’m going to go there
[07:55.52] and tell him face-to-face - ’thank you’
[08:10.43] For discovering my talent so early
[08:15.83] For helping me along in this beautiful musical world
[08:21.86] I was meant to be in

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[00:24.34] I watched the film
[00:25.82] ' The Song Remains the Same'
[00:29.40] At the midnight movies when I was a kid
[00:34.93] At a Canton,
[00:35.85] Oh mall with friends
[00:40.42] One warm summer weekend
[00:46.34] Jimmy Page stood tall on screen
[00:51.34] I was mesmerized by everything
[00:56.46] The Peter Grant and
[00:58.42] John Paul Jones dream sequence scenes
[01:02.88] The closeup of the mahogany Double SG
[01:08.29] And though I loved the sound of the roaring Les Paul
[01:14.00] What spoke to me most was
[01:17.09] ' Rain Song' and ' BronYrAur'
[01:31.23] And I loved the thunder of Jon Bonham' s drums
[01:36.90] But even more I like
[01:38.90] ' No Quarter' s Fender Rhodes' hum
[01:54.99] I don' t know what happened
[01:56.76] or what anyone did
[01:58.26]
[02:00.52] From my earliest memories
[02:03.08] I was a very melancholic kid
[02:06.14] When anything close to me at all in the world died
[02:11.52] To my heart, forever,
[02:14.09] it would be tied
[02:16.78] Like when my friend was thrown from his moped
[02:22.19] When some kind of a big truck backended him
[02:27.55] And when the girl who sat in front of me in remedial
[02:32.87] Was killed in an accident one weekend
[02:36.36] and quickly forgot about at school
[02:38.95] And when we got the call
[02:40.77] that my grandmother passed
[02:45.02] The nervous tension
[02:46.58] I' d been feeling for months broke
[02:49.59] And strangely I laughed
[03:02.49] Then I went to my bedroom
[03:05.00] and I laid down
[03:08.00] And in my tears and in the heaviness of
[03:11.12] everything I drowned
[03:43.46] Though I kept to myself
[03:44.75] and for the most part was pretty coy
[03:49.45] I once got baited
[03:51.15] and had to clock some underserving boy
[03:55.11] Out on the elementary school playground
[03:57.31]
[03:59.55] I threw a punch that caught him offguard
[04:02.65] and knocked him down
[04:05.14] And when I walked away the kids were cheering
[04:10.22] And though I grinned deep inside,
[04:12.72] I was hurting
[04:15.92] But not nearly as much as I hurt him
[04:20.83] He stood up,
[04:22.23] his glassed broken and his face was red
[04:27.31] And i was never a schoolyard bully
[04:33.67] It was only one incident
[04:36.64] And it has always eaten at me
[04:50.70] I was never the young schoolyard bully
[04:56.37] And wherever you are,
[04:58.69] that poor kid,
[05:00.59] I' m so sorry
[05:14.80] And when I grew older
[05:16.16] I learned to play guitar
[05:20.08] While everyone else was throwing around a football
[05:25.68] Wearing bright colors the school issued them
[05:30.87] Parroting passed down phrases and cheerleading
[05:36.50] I got a recording contract in 1992
[05:41.96] From there my name,
[05:43.71] my band and my audience grew
[05:45.54]
[05:47.34] And since that time so much has happened to me
[05:52.96] But I discovered I cannot shake melancholy
[05:58.69] For 46 years now I cannot break the spell
[06:04.47] I' ll carry it through my life
[06:07.46] and probably carry it down
[06:21.92] I' ll go to my grave with my melancholy
[06:27.64] And my ghost will echo
[06:30.48] my sentiments for all eternity
[07:03.16] And now when I watch
[07:04.52] ' The Song Remains the Same'
[07:08.59] The same things speak to me
[07:10.88] that spoke to me then
[07:12.29]
[07:14.38] Except that now the scenes with
[07:16.02] Peter Grant and Jon Bonham
[07:17.98]
[07:19.81] Are different when I think of the deaths
[07:22.76] that fell upon them
[07:25.11] I got a friend who lives in the desert
[07:27.65] outside Santa Fe
[07:30.98] I' m going to visit him this Saturday
[07:33.35]
[07:35.76] Between my travels and his divorce
[07:38.42] and our time not being what it was
[07:42.40] It' s been 15 years since I last saw him
[07:47.01] He' s the man who signed me back in 1992
[07:53.15] And I' m going to go there
[07:55.52] and tell him facetoface ' thank you'
[08:10.43] For discovering my talent so early
[08:15.83] For helping me along in this beautiful musical world
[08:21.86] I was meant to be in