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 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 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 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 forgot 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 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 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 hurt him
 He stood up, his glassed 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 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 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 Jon 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 divorce 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 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