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[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.