"And ugly things we’ve said, time we’ve spent in vain and the mistakes we’ve made are forgiven."
It’s been almost five years ago since Kelly Slater set up his acoustic guitar in front of his telephone and recorded a ballad he called Trouble while sheltering in place from COVID on Australia’s Gold Coast.
The song Kelly Slater sings for us? Our The voice of an angel. Like Jack Johnson tenderly mixed with Yanni. It also appears in his Instagram story but since I cannot post, I’ll dutifully copy the lyrics.
“I wrote this many years ago but just realised the lyrics are fitting for right now…” Kelly tells the camera with such gorgeously serene confidence before launching in.
“Days are passing so fast may not make it through this but I myself believe, I’m better on my own. We made a plan one day to spend our lives let’s do this if our time is now please don’t let it go. So let’s just sail away, and find our place today, forget the yesterdays that we’re living. And ugly things we’ve said, time we’ve spent in vain and the mistakes we’ve made are forgiven. When I feel trouble, I’ll be right there for you. When I feel trouble you’ll be right there for me…”
Kelly Slater’s song quickly disappeared from our lives but has now been resurrected via Uruguayan artist Guille Olivera who took the original and added in his own horns, drums, maracas and back-up vocals.
“Kelly is the biggest idol in surfing history, marked my childhood and adolescence like that of so many others around the world. But it turns out that he is also an exquisite singer-songwriter!!” write Olivera. “And I only found out about this several years later when I opened my Instagram account. There I found this beautiful song of hers ‘Trouble’ and several times over the years I scrolled through her videos to listen to it again. A while ago I had this idea, to take a video of it and record things above it. And now that my vacation has started I enjoyed myself. So much fun playing with Kelly What an amazing guy bo!!”
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The result is a song of compassion that will yank on your heart strings and affirm your belief in the redemptive power of love.
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The whole surfer musician thing is the most cliche cringey thing ever.
Watching Fronovan Donkenreighter go on tour and other ‘pro’ surfers take themselves that serious was awkward.
If your looking for trouble you coming to the right place. Sums up the goats career in a song.
I’d rather listen to two cats fucking in a metal garbage can.
What a way to start 2025. Kelly Slater singing the covid blues. Fuck got to wait another year to start the year good.
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2025 NY resolution –
no one videoing surfing is allowed to say Oh MY God, there are other words (often hidden in books)
Thank you
yeah that phrase should be saved just for kitchen&travel shows. but the most overused line on the boob tube is: “Hey. Are you OK?”
sorry, but I think its pretty good, love the dry horns
Agree. And I pan bad music very quickly. Bunch of haters on here can’t enjoy a simple melody by a man who has made more incredible waves than all of us combined.
So he wrote a song about all the mean things his daughter said of him, and that he forgives her. Nice.
the sound of a bowling ball hitting the pins: STRIKE!”
Wow! It’s almost like being good at surfing doesn’t translate into being good at anything else at all
truly fucking heartwarming
I’m trying enjoy my nye.
Why? Why?
Do you ruin it by posting a clip of Kelly slater song?
Aren’t the wars waging around the world tonight enough ?
The homeless sleeping rough ?
Those who have lost or losing love ones?
People whose real pain is so bad they struggle to breathe?
Your evil twins Derek and Chas.
And you bring us Kelly Slater remixed dog of a song?
The Epidemiologist Blues
Anyone know his Chinese girlfriend’s kid’s name yet?
JP running a sweepstake?
JP:
running high with the wind behind…
we’ll drink so kelly doesn’t have to sing…
need more lyrics from James Kelman…
who, like DSS&S…
need to add more f u’s…
hat tip: the kid is named Wu or Sue or Hulla Balu.
If Kelly grew his hair out https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Can I borrow a feeling?
Could you send me a jar of love?
Hurtin’ hearts need some healin’,
Take my hand with your glove of love!
It’s
Beautiful
”Kelly, take yo gee tar and sing that shit down the fucken beach !
lil X can’t sleep and the cats are screeching.” – K.Miller
mic and coffee dropped! nice…
Super Rich White Guy Sings the Blues.
And rather poorly, at that.
Dude rides a wave storm but only if his with ten mates and pip is out shredding.
He knows his safe and no rogue 4 ft waves are going catch him on the inside
Jack Johnson is the devil
Kelly slater sucks on the teet of demons
dinga ling Lang dong dong ling Lang
yeah jesus built my hot rod
it was a love affair
Kelly Slater was a surfer previous to his career as a prophet.
Kelly built my hotrod?
Jack Johnson has got a lot to answer for. I liked it better when he was an unknown pipe charger.
Just think about how life would be different if pipe didn’t re-arrange his face.
I have’t read anything about Acai Joe Rogan in months, and honestly, this is already too much.
Horn section that makes it so much better is Shane Beschen, Andy Irons and John John Florence