[00:00.169]God Bless Ohio -Sun Kil Moon
[00:01.337]Written by ：Mark Kozelek
[00:28.892]There you were a little kid in the yard
[00:31.992]I was a friend and a brother
[00:34.945]There's an old picture of us playing cards
[00:38.271]And at night we threw corn at houses
[00:41.646]It was meant for feeding hogs
[00:44.22]Later in life I was playing jimmy fallon
[00:48.398]You were getting chased by police through cornfields
[00:51.712]And mauled by canine dogs
[00:54.988]And when I go back and visit
[00:59.583]It's like a ghost town
[01:01.784]We travel around and around and around
[01:04.133]Past the perpetually vacant sexton's house
[01:06.670]Sexton's house
[01:08.584]Past the abandoned molly stark hospital
[01:13.694]And I think about
[01:15.249]The old mansfield prison where shawshank redemption was filmed
[01:20.266]And I think about
[01:21.910]The alcoholic's anonymous guys
[01:24.505]I knew in my teens who had been in and out
[01:28.804]Past the old steel mill
[01:33.303]I think about my grandpa
[01:35.643]And that horrible nursing home
[01:37.496]And the ugly tattoo on his sagging dying arm
[01:42.170]I said f**k that dad
[01:43.984]Whatever that is I'm never ever ever going to get one
[01:49.689]My dad is one of two left of his nine siblings
[01:55.891]And when he's gone
[01:57.16]I'm gonna lay down in my bed and I'm never gonna wanna get out again
[02:00.451]I'm never gonna get out again
[02:02.507]I'm gonna be strong when I can
[02:04.894]Cause if my little brother goes before me
[02:09.910]Don't want to swim out into the sea and never come back
[02:19.329]God bless ohio
[02:22.635]God bless every man
[02:26.184]Woman and child
[02:29.37]God bless every bag of bones six feet under the snow
[02:35.602]God bless o
[02:37.226]God bless o
[02:38.635]God bless ohio
[02:42.863]Just saw the news on my television in New York
[02:48.809]Pike county ohio massacre
[02:50.497]If it ain't families getting shot then it's one thing or the other
[02:55.491]Guy letting his pet lions loose in the street
[02:58.337]And putting a gun in his mouth
[03:02.382]Young girls held as slaves in a basement by a guy
[03:05.925]Until a neighbor ratted him out
[03:09.76]Craigslist killers luring people by offering them work on a farm
[03:15.813]Killed and buried their bodies out by belden village mall
[03:19.345]Stole their cars and credit cards
[03:25.808]God bless ohio
[03:28.918]God bless every man
[03:32.735]Woman and child
[03:35.558]God bless every bag of bones six feet under the snow
[03:42.267]God bless o
[03:43.785]God bless o
[03:45.181]God bless ohio
[04:03.137]Oh as sadness lingers
[04:05.561]And the rain clouds above
[04:09.232]Well sadness lingers and the lightning storms
[04:14.59]Rain floods
[04:29.843]Oh as sadness lingers
[04:32.654]And the graffiti underneath the bridge
[04:35.834]Well sadness lingers and the old dilapidated barns
[04:39.684]And the doors coming off their hinges
[04:56.132]And in the empty downtown parking lots
[05:00.370]And the lonely alleyways
[05:02.965]And the foreclosed homes that once had kiddie pools in the yards
[05:06.609]And cars parked in the driveway
[05:16.538]Oh but the beautiful things from ohio
[05:18.914]My mother my mother my mother my mother
[05:23.66]And my walks along the path of the tuscarawas street
[05:26.895]Of the tuscarawas street
[05:29.694]The beautiful children of my sister
[05:32.277]And the blue herons gliding across the pond
[05:35.06]Blue herons gliding across the pond
[05:36.861]The black squirrels nibbling on acorns
[05:39.470]The fireflies flickering on the summer lawn
[05:42.653]On the summer lawn
[05:43.551]Domino's pizza brings me back to when I was younger
[05:45.851]When I was younger when I was younger
[05:47.684]When I was younger when I was younger
[05:49.923]These kids I hear outside my window
[05:52.129]I was one of them I was one of them
[05:54.166]I was one of them I was one of them
[05:56.661]Now I'm the old man in the chair
[05:58.342]Deep in thought in the living room
[06:03.446]I'm that old man now and I'm grateful that I got this far
[06:07.772]And that I've become him
[06:10.165]And when I go back we drive around
[06:12.396]We drive around we drive around we drive around we drive around
[06:15.40]We drive around
[06:16.851]The old supermarket we used to go hide behind
[06:21.895]Is closed down
[06:22.734]Is closed down
[06:23.902]I was raised on groceries my mom brought home from their spring summer fall winter
[06:28.734]Spring summer fall winter
[06:30.319]Velveeta cheese and wonder bread and chocolate milk
[06:33.179]And salisbury steak TV dinners
[06:36.983]She squirreled away a few bucks along the way because she loved you and me
[06:41.999]She loved you and me
[06:43.841]So she could make sure we had a few gifts each year under the
[06:48.395]Christmas tree
[06:50.526]At the risk of pissing my dad off very very very badly
[06:57.298]She socked that money away from those grocery store trips without him knowing
[07:02.856]For you and me
[07:05.91]What saved me from the dark clouds hanging over ohio
[07:10.756]What's chasing the dream baby
[07:15.257]Who would have known
[07:17.96]That the pursuit of love and music would have even bought me a home
[07:23.765]Or'd have take me to tokyo to tel aviv
[07:26.55]To athens to reykjav ík and rome
[07:44.711]There is healing in writing poems
[07:48.29]There is healing in psychotherapy
[07:50.720]There is healing in taking walks along the beach
[07:53.169]But never underestimate the healing of music baby
[08:11.561]Some songs are funny and some are sad
[08:14.977]Some are short some are long
[08:17.796]There is nothing as healing and powerful
[08:21.925]As the power of song
[08:38.761]As the power of song
[08:42.25]As the power of song
[08:45.483]As the power of song
[08:48.825]As the power of song
[08:55.302]I was walking along the hudson looking at
[08:57.591]The New York skyline on my break from the studio in hoboken
[09:01.189]Every pay phone I saw
[09:02.717]I checked to see which ones worked and which ones were broken
[09:07.985]And in my head there was a melody going
[09:12.240]Oh
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