Sarah Lawrence College Song-Sun Kil Moon

[00:01.61]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [00:05.58] [00:06.14]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [00:10.19] [00:10.96]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [00:15.02] [00:15.69]Sarah Lawrence College song [00:19.23] [00:21.12]8:02 AM April 25th 2016 New York [00:25.37] [00:27.20]Everything went fine at Sarah Lawrence College [00:29.35] [00:30.35]While I was on stage I asked the kids to educate me on [00:33.57]What exactly it is that they study there [00:35.53] [00:36.67]A person shouted [00:38.09]We do whatever the hell we want [00:39.56] [00:40.75]I replied well that's what I've been doing all my life [00:43.52] [00:44.84]I asked what their parents payed for them to do whatever the hell they want [00:48.34]And a girl in the front row said [00:50.16]$60000 a year [00:51.82] [00:52.72]I said well that's what Walmart pays me to use my music in commercials [00:56.84]And that maybe I could go to their school one day too [00:59.28] [00:59.91]'Cause they all seem like really nice people [01:01.58] [01:02.96]I explained that Kirk Hammett from Metallica went to college [01:05.84]After Metallica made it which was met with a thud [01:09.06] [01:12.69]A nice girl named Sophie played piano on a few songs [01:15.74]With us because my mic couldn't reach the piano [01:18.80] [01:19.83]She played the four notes on Richard Ramirez [01:22.08]And Carry Me Ohio really really well [01:23.96] [01:24.93]That was a lot of fun [01:25.81] [01:26.99]We also played When Doves Cry in honor of Prince who died the night before [01:31.42] [01:32.51]Steve Shelley played drums with me that night by the way [01:35.15] [01:35.83]What a great drummer [01:36.98]Steve's also a really nice guy [01:38.53] [01:41.24]Great acoustics in the room and the show went really well [01:43.87] [01:45.01]And we got out of there by midnight [01:46.56] [01:47.34]What a cool group of kids and a nice promoter named Max [01:50.06] [01:51.04]It was the first show he ever promoted [01:52.96]And he gave me a check in an envelope [01:54.87]Which I actually didn't open until [01:56.64]Just now here in my New York hotel three nights after the gig [02:00.68] [02:02.04]This is what his note said [02:03.21] [02:06.31]Dear Mark [02:07.40] [02:08.03]First of all thank you so much for playing Sarah Lawrence College [02:13.93] [02:15.08]Even though we have a really small school [02:18.07]And don't get much attention [02:19.52] [02:20.34]We have a really lot of passionate kids [02:23.51] [02:24.80]I know every single one of them is thrilled to have you come [02:32.83] [02:34.44]Your music means so much to so many [02:38.68]I first heard your music [02:39.86]When I was searching songs about Los Angeles [02:43.54] [02:44.24]For a project in high school [02:46.24]I was fifteen or sixteen [02:47.93] [02:48.75]And I came across Cruiser [02:50.32]And it changed everything for me [02:52.46] [02:53.37]It was the music I had been searching for for a long time [02:56.59] [02:58.04]Some people say your music makes them sad and that you make sad music [03:02.36] [03:03.16]I don't know [03:03.90] [03:04.46]I guess I disagree [03:06.79] [03:07.95]Your music was and is a comfort to me [03:12.69]I feel a sort of connection to it that is less a melancholic thing [03:16.77] [03:18.01]But more a reassuring thing [03:20.69] [03:22.27]I was taking a seven-hour train across the state of New York [03:26.16] [03:27.04]I listened to the entirety of Benji [03:28.91]And Red House Painters I back to back [03:31.26] [03:31.93]I thought of a lot of things [03:33.79]When I listened to those records [03:35.34] [03:35.92]And somehow it brought me ease to know someone [03:38.37]That was thinking some of those same things [03:40.55] [03:41.52]It was calming [03:42.70]And even though I'm writing this letter before you even take the stage [03:50.25] [03:50.96]I know the scene you perform tonight [03:53.04]Will be one of my most enjoyable moments [03:56.32]So thank you again so much for coming [03:58.83]I hope you had a nice time [04:00.72]And I hope this letter finds you well [04:03.00] [04:05.28]Looking forward to the next record [04:06.93]The Jesu/Sun Kil Moon LP was great [04:09.56] [04:10.36]And hopefully I can see you again on November 10th in Brooklyn [04:13.75] [04:14.77]Best wishes and thanks again [04:16.53] [04:17.59]Max [04:18.23] [04:19.91]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:24.04] [04:24.67]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:28.76] [04:29.34]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:33.51] [04:34.08]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:38.30] [04:38.94]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:43.11] [04:43.79]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:47.85] [04:48.55]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:52.66] [04:53.36]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [04:57.54] [04:58.10]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [05:02.50] [05:03.10]Sarah Lawrence College song this is my [05:07.87]Sarah Lawrence College