[ti:Micheline] [ar:Sun Kil Moon] [al:Benji] [offset:0] [00:00.80]Micheline - Sun Kil Moon [00:18.53]Micheline used to come to our house [00:21.68]and knock on our door. [00:26.29]My dad would answer and say, [00:28.03]"What do you want girl?" [00:29.30]and she'd say, [00:30.47]"Can I take a bath with Mark?" [00:34.25]My dad would say, [00:35.31]"My son ain't here," [00:37.32]send her home and shut the door [00:39.42]and we'd all laugh. [00:42.17]And Micheline would walk down the street glowing [00:45.18]and smiling like she just got [00:46.94]Paul McCartney's autograph. [00:50.21]Her brain worked a little slower than the others; [00:54.20]she wore thick-rimmed glasses. [00:56.23] [00:57.99]She took a different bus to school than other kids [01:01.74]and was in different kid of classes. [01:04.82]When she got older a neighborhood thug [01:08.93]moved in with her [01:10.32]and started taking her welfare payments. [01:13.88]He took her down to the bank, [01:15.82]helped her withdraw her savings [01:17.83]that was put away for her [01:19.39]and he went off with it. [01:21.88]The cops caught up with him, [01:23.38]he did a little time and cut too many years later. [01:29.49]He's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with his father, [01:34.08]both of them for murder. [01:37.63]Micheline, Micheline. [01:39.57] [01:41.57]Micheline, Micheline. [01:45.31]Micheline, Micheline, Micheline. [01:48.36]She wanted love like anyone else. [01:52.85]Micheline, Micheline, Micheline, [01:56.03]She have a dream like anyone else. [02:00.92]My friend Brett, [02:01.86]my friend Brett, [02:02.60]my friend Brett, [02:03.57]my friend Brett, [02:04.69]he liked to play the guitar. [02:08.62]But he had an awkward way of playing [02:10.68]barre chords with two fingers spreading his index [02:14.01]and middle fingers really far apart. [02:16.43]One day in band practice he dropped like a deer [02:19.24]was shot and was flipping around like a fish. [02:24.05]He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve [02:27.15]in his hand from the strain he was putting on it. [02:32.35]I went to see him in Ohio; he had a horseshoe [02:36.55]shaped scar on his scalp and he talked real slow. [02:40.10]We played pool like we did in our teens [02:43.41]and his head was shaved [02:45.13]and he still wore bell-bottomed jeans. [02:47.85]In '99 I was on tour in Sweden when I called home [02:55.77]To tell my mom that I got a part in a movie [02:58.55]when she said "Mark, [03:00.04]there's something that you need to know." [03:03.96]"Brett died the other day, you really [03:06.30]should send a letter to his mom and dad. [03:09.08]" And I got on my train in Malmo [03:13.64]and looked out at the snow feeling somewhere [03:16.69]between happy and sad. [03:19.55]My friend Brett, [03:20.59]my friend Brett. [03:21.34] [03:23.41]My friend Brett, [03:24.28]my friend Brett. [03:27.33]My friend Brett, [03:28.08]my friend Brett, [03:29.46]my friend Brett. [03:31.25]He had a wife and a son. [03:33.12] [03:34.83]My friend Brett, [03:35.66]my friend Brett, [03:36.63]my friend Brett. [03:38.11]He just liked to play guitar [03:40.24]and he never hurt anyone. [03:42.71]My grandma, [03:43.35]my grandma, [03:43.93]my grandma, [03:45.82]my grandma, [03:46.40]my grandma, [03:47.53]my grandma. [03:50.56]Before she passed away we'd go [03:52.15]and visit her at my aunt's house when I was small. [03:58.23]I couldn't bear the shape [04:00.23]she was in so at the top of the driveway [04:02.90]I'd sit in the car. [04:06.10]One day I was just fucking around [04:08.60]when I put it in reverse and I was free-falling. [04:10.96] [04:13.94]I remember the car moving backwards; [04:18.11]my heart was beating and I blacked out. [04:22.17]Another car was coming down the street and [04:25.24]I totaled them both and I got knocked out. [04:29.83]My grandma, [04:30.85]my grandma, [04:31.57]my grandma, [04:32.55]my grandma, [04:33.54]my grandma, [04:34.75]my grandma. [04:37.82]First time I met her, she lived in L.A.; [04:41.08]I think it was Huntington Park. [04:45.65]I made friends with a kid named [04:47.90]Marceau and another kid named Cyrus Hunt. [04:52.90]We'd go downtown and get ice cream [04:54.96]and feed french fries to the pigeons [04:56.77]and talk to the handicapped vets from Vietnam. [05:01.40]It was the first time I saw a hummingbird, [05:04.97]a palm tree, or a lizard. [05:08.79]Or saw an ocean, or heard [05:10.90]David Bowie's [05:11.87]"Young Americans" [05:12.86]and I saw the movie [05:14.36]"Benji" in theaters. [05:17.37]My grandma, my grandma. [05:18.84] [05:21.26]My grandma, my grandma. [05:24.75]My grandma, my grandma, [05:26.91]my grandma. [05:28.56]I heard she had a pretty hard life. [05:32.15]But after her first husband passed away [05:35.56]she met a man from California [05:37.10]and he treated her really nice. [05:39.88]My grandma, my grandma. [05:43.88]My grandma, my grandma. [05:47.37]My grandma, my grandma, [05:49.75]my grandma. [05:51.36]Was diagnosed at 62. [05:55.56]Her kids stepped up to the plate for her [05:58.90]and were there the whole way through.