Letra de I Watched the Film the Song Remains the Same
I watched the film 'The Song Remains the Same' At the midnight movies when I was a kid At a Canton, Oh mall with friends One warm summer weekendJimmy 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 SGAnd 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 Fender Rhodes' humI 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 tiedLike 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 forgot about at schoolAnd when we got the call that my grandmother passed The nervous tension I'd been feeling for months broke And strangely I laughedThen I went to my bedroom and I laid down And in my tears and in the heaviness of everything I drownedThough I kept to myself and for the most part was pretty coy I once got baited and had to clock some underserving boy Out on the elementary school playground I threw a punch that caught him off-guard and knocked him downAnd when I walked away the kids were cheering And though I grinned deep inside, I was hurtingBut not nearly as much as I hurt him He stood up, his glassed broken and his face was redAnd i was never a schoolyard bully It was only one incident And it has always eaten at meI was never the young schoolyard bully And wherever you are, that poor kid, I'm so sorryAnd 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 cheerleadingI got a recording contract in 1992 From there my name, my band and my audience grewAnd 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 downI'll go to my grave with my melancholy And 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 then Except that now the scenes with Peter Grant and Jon Bonham Are different when I think of the deaths that fell upon themI got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa Fe I'm going to visit him this Saturday Between my travels and his divorce and our time not being what it was It's been 15 years since I last saw himHe's the man who signed me back in 1992 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