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

I watched the film The Song Remains the Same 

At the midnight movies when I was a kid 

At a Canton, Ohio mall with friends 

One warm summer weekend 

Jimmy Page stood tall on screen 

I was mesmerized by everything 

The Peter Grant and John Paul Jones dream sequence scenes 

The close-up of the mahogany double-neck SG 

And though I loved the sound of the roaring Les Paul 

What spoke to me most was 'Rain Song' and 'Bron-Yr-Aur' 

And I loved the thunder of Jon Bonham's drums 

But even more I like "No Quarter's" low Fender Rhodes hum 

I don't know what happened or what anyone did 

From my earliest memories I was a very melancholic kid 

When anything close to me at all in the world died 

To my heart, forever, it would be tied 

Like when my friend was thrown from his moped 

When some kind of a big truck back-ended him 

And when the girl who sat in front of me in remedial 

Was killed in an accident one weekend and quickly forgotten about at school 

And when we got the call that my grandmother passed 

The nervous tension I'd been feeling for months broke 

And strangely I laughed 

Then I went to my bedroom and I lay down 

And in my tears and in the heaviness of everything I drowned 

Though I kept to myself and for the most part was pretty coy 

I once got baited and had to clock some undeserving boy 

Out on the elementary school playground 

I threw a punch that caught him off-guard and knocked him down 

And when I walked away the kids were cheering 

And though I grinned, deep inside I was hurting 

But not nearly as much as I'd hurt him 

He stood up, his glasses broken and his face was red 

And I was never a schoolyard bully 

It was only one incident and it has always eaten at me 

I was never the young schoolyard bully 

And wherever you are, that poor kid, I'm so sorry 

And when I grew older I learned to play guitar 

While everyone else was throwing around a football 

Wearing bright colors the school issued them 

Parroting passed down phrases and cheer leading 

I got a recording contract in 1992 

From there my name, my band and my audience grew 

And since that time so much has happened to me 

But I discovered I cannot shake melancholy 

For 46 years now I cannot break the spell 

I'll carry it through my life and probably carry it down 

I'll go to my grave with my melancholy 

And my ghost will echo my sentiments for all eternity 

And now when I watch The Song Remains the Same 

The same things speak to me that spoke to me then 

Except that now the scenes with Peter Grant and John Bonham 

Are different when I think of the deaths that fell upon them 

I got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa Fe 

I'm going to visit him this Saturday 

Between my travels and his divorces and our time not being what it was 

It's been 15 years since I last saw him 

He's the man who signed me back in '92 

And I'm going to go there and tell him face-to-face, 'thank you' 

For discovering my talent so early 

For helping me along in this beautiful musical world I was meant to be in