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 kid
At a Canton, Ohio mall with friends
One warm summer weekend
Jimmy Page stood tall and screamed
And 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 John Bonham's drums but even more
I liked "No Quarter's" low Fender Rhodes hum

I don't know what happened or what anyone did
But 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 laid 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 into
Clocking 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 a 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 cheerleading
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've discovered I
Cannot shake melancholy
For 46 years now, I cannot break the spell
I'll carry it throughout my life and
Probably carry it to Hell
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 now
The scenes with Peter Grant and John Bonham
Are different when I think about the
Deaths that fell upon them
I got a friend who lives in
The desert outside Santa Fe
And 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 fifteen 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"