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anonymous
July 4th, 2008 03:08PM
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This song is about so much more than drugs or some trip to morroco.
"a traveler of both time and space"
"sit with elders of the gentle race"
"They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed"
"And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I’ve been."
"I’ve been flying, ain’t no denyin’, no denyin’"
Kashmir is the principal point of conflict, a tiny nation in dispute between Pakistan and India.
The history of this area, once the great Rama empire,is what made Robert Oppemheimer say the now famous words
and I qoute from Wikipedia...As Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the demonstration, he later said that a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita came to mind:
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
"This wasted land" is so because of a nuclear war fought there 5000 years ago.
Recorded in thier ancient records, along with hundreds of differnt types of flying machines, both terrestial and interstellar, is a war so devasating between a "gentle race" of spiritual people and a materialistic race of "war mongers" bent on world domination that it distroyed both sides.
Sound familar? History repeats itself to the doom of those who refuse to learn from it.
Great Britain gave back this area in 1947, aprox. Half to the Muslims (Pakistan) and half to the Hindus (India)
Kashmir is in between them both and in dispute.
It is currently again one of the world's most likely places for nuclear war to erupt...and just a small example of how religion is used as a tool in the hands of those who would bring the world again to the brink of annihilation.
anonymous
December 18th, 2008 02:48AM
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Ok... Here's the deal: I think this song may have something to do with an acid trip or whatever drug in Morrocco.... But I think the only part that even remotely comes from that is the first part of the first verse: "Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams..." All the way thru, "I've been flyin'..." That's GOTTA be a trip or somethin'... I mean it IS Ld Zeppelinfor goodness sake...
But that's it. No more drug meaning after that, maybe some later, but it's sparse and insignifigant, if even there at all.
NOW: The REST of the meaning:
Kashmir, as already covered by my fellow interpretors, is a small chunk of land between India and Pakistan. They've been fighting over it for a long, LONG time...
Now, lets look at the rest of the lyrics:
"All I see, turns to brown"
I think here re really is just simply talking about exactly how barren Kashmir is.
"Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace"
I think this has to do with all the wars and bloody battles over this ne peice of land,
"My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon"
Shangri-La was the original name for Camp David, the presidential retreat.
Plant is saying that Perhaps the reason for all the fighting is because the two nations see this area as a retreat, both physical and spiritual.
I know this interp. Is kinda incomplete, but its already been coveresd so well. Thought i'd throw my 2 cents in. Great song and great job on the interps!
angelinasluv
August 24th, 2009 08:31AM
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not all songs back in the day were all about the "trip".
many things that were created then people did drugs but even back in freud's day they did drugs so it isnt always an issue.
it is part drug is part political and nuclear.
it is also about religion. if you understood the religions and thier history as well, you could undertsnad this song better.
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear
Ohh. well having faith and nothing else and getting past your fears.. being above influence and inspiring others...
