Jesu, Sun Kil Moon - Sally lyrics

Once met a girl from Roanoke, Virginia
Her eyes were green, her hair was red
She was 24 and I was 19 and we'd
Fuck like bunnies all day on her waterbed
We listened to Hüsker Dü's 'Candy
Apple Grey' and 'Warehouse Songs
& Stories' so many times that my ears bled
We listened to Lou Reed's 'Berlin'
I loved the sadness and the starkness of
'Caroline Says' and especially 'The Kids'
Sometimes her and I we'd have a lot
Of fun and sometimes we'd fight
She had a son, he was 4
One time they dropped me off at a Greyhound
Bus station in the middle of the night

And I sat there all night waiting for the bus
Knowing it was finally the end of us
It took me years to see where I was wrong
I didn't have any money back then and
She got tired of carrying me along
But we kept in touch and
One day in Philadelphia
She came to a show of mine and
We went back to her apartment together
Her son was taller than me and he
Was sitting there at his computer
And the next morning we met up at a
Jewish deli with some friends of hers

And I don't believe that I've
Ever seen her since then
But up in Vancouver I did meet Lou Reed I
Told him how much that I loved 'Berlin'
And he said "And who are you?"
And I also met Bob Mould from Hüsker Dü
At an Austin airport on my way home
And he said my version of 'Celebrated
Summer' was on this phone

It's funny where life takes you
And all the adventures that we go through
And who we meet along the way
The things that catch our eyes that
Make us think of yesterday
It's crazy where life takes you
And all the music that we hear that reminds
Us of the friends and lovers we knew
And as we get older every corner we turn
There's still new things that open our
Eyes and things to learn
There's bittersweet and love and sadness
There's uplift in the air and
There's insanity and madness

Gonna read some poems by some
Street kids in Argentina
Gonna walk through the Lower Ninth Ward
And think of Hurricane Katrina
I remember walking around
Those streets before
The houses got washed away
It's hard for me to walk around this
World and not think about yesterday

When I walk through the Broadway Tunnel
I think of a shitty fight
That I had with an ex-girlfriend before
I jumped on a flight and flew like a bat out
Of hell out to Tennessee
Where a girl in a house in the
Country took me in and rescued me
And we came back late from Donuts and a
Deer's head was laying in the driveway
An ex-boyfriend of hers was trying
To send me a
Message like "stay the fuck out of my way!"
But, I have nice memories of that house
Listening to NPR and drinking tea
But her puppy Sally was shot and killed when
She went onto to somebody else's property

Some memories are happy and some are sad
I take the bad with the good and
Am grateful for what I have
And walking from my place to
My girlfriend's on Russian Hill
I get overwhelmed with memories
Of the Broadway Tunnel
This life of beautiful animals and people
This life of so much art and poetry
I walk down the street and I'm still inspired
By everything I see
This life of many rivers
Seas and lakes and oceans
This life of many landscapes
This life of so much warm sunshine
This life of so many storms
And so much pouring rain

I walk past the restaurant I
Used to go for Chinese
I knew the twin waitresses
There, Mindy and Muriel
Since they were both 15
I saw them both grow up and have
Children and I saw them turn 40
Now the place is all boarded
Up with plywood and
I miss the wonton soup there like crazy
The grocery store where I used to go
That played music from the 60's
Got taken over by the Google
Kids from Silicon Valley
But, I won't let it run me out
And I won't let it faze me
This city has always been and
Will always be an inspiration
Friends come and go
The world continues to spin
Don't know that I'll ever hear
From that girl from Virginia
Or that I'll ever see Mindy and Muriel
But, I hope someday that when I
Die it's near that Broadway Tunnel
Walking by your side around
Russian or Telegraph Hill