anonymous 2006-01-04 17:47:03    

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bigmike24,

You wrote:

Page was in fact one of Aliester Crowlys biggest students and followed directly in his footsteps of witch craft.

However:

Crowley died in 1947
Jimmy Page was born in 1944


So, it seems to me that either

1. you made this up or mis-remembered.
2. Mr Friend's research (all of which is, of course, documented) sucks.


Anyway, Page bought Crowley's old castle. He also had "do what thou wilt" inscribed on the vinyl for III -- a crowley quote. So, it would seem that Page was at least a fan of Crowley. Perhaps he was even Crowley's student for the first three years (almost four) of his life. So what? Crowley wasn't even a satanist. He was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later started Ordo Templi Orientis. He was definitely a free thinker and supposedly a "mystic" but not a satan worshiper. Secondly, what is so "satanic" or "evil" or whatever about stairway? The whole backmasking thing that FTR was so adamant about that made no sense?

I have a different theory: perhaps it was just a good song.

Imagine that. No other-worldly influence, no vast evil conspiracy, people liked stairway to heaven for no other reason that it happened to be a good song. It's also kinda timeless. Everyone likes it.

Let's look at some other songs that everyone is familiar with:

Stayin' Alive
Born To Be Wild
Jesus Loves the Little Children
Boot Scootin' Boogie
The Monster Mash

So these are popular too. Is that because Satan was the king of music? Probably not. They were the right song at the right time.

You wacky pseudo-Christian conspiracy people need to get a grip on life, probability and statistics, and what satanism even is.

anonymous 2006-01-04 23:08:51    

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Crutchead, I found your analysis of the song to be very fulfilling. However, I did not get to read any past your second response.

Perhaps, the lines about Satan that occurs when played backward is trying to say the woman who is disappointed in the church turns to Satanism? Or, as many others have said, there is no meaning at all in the song and we're over analyzing it.

anonymous 2006-01-05 12:46:35    

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It's about listening to the universe and the hidden messages and help you have that you have to find by listening, looking and sensing. Finding your chosen path, your destiny.

anonymous 2006-01-05 22:20:27    

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Yeah, that's a good one.

I do not understand why they would write a song and claim it has no meaning... That sounds stupid. You don't write a song with no meaning!

saladfingers 2006-01-09 18:42:37    

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OK, I agree with whoever said that this song has multiple layers of meaning, because it certainly does. I agree that you can find drugs, the woman with the money, and religion (Jesus AND Satan) in the song. I just wanted to add something I got out of this song that no one really touched on.

This song definitely talks about the woman who tries to buy salvation. but, I think the song may go further into the actual money itself, i.e. materialism and our dependence on money. you can't really find it in every line of the song, but there are a couple where it's pretty obvious.

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

Well duh, this is about the woman buying salvation. But think about "buying salvation". That means that you depend on your money and its security maybe not to actually go to heaven, but maybe to lead your life the right way and be the best person you can. you can't actually buy the stairway to heaven (obviously), but you can try to buy into a better life with more direction, and THAT can get you into heaven. This lady represents the majority of people who are depending on their money.

There’s a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.

Looking to the west, or at western culture, which is the center of reckless materialism and greed. The author notices this and wants to leave it.

And it’s whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.

The materialism part does have to do with religion, because Jesus himself lived a nonmaterial life and gave up his possessions to spread the word of God. He even says in the book of Matthew (sorry, I don't remember exactly where) that dependence on money can interfere with your faith in God, and you have pick between the two. Anyway, in this part, I see it that Jesus (the piper) is offering to help us free ourselves from our money and our greed, but we are the ones who have to "call the tune", or get ourselves to realize that we are dependent on our possessions. This goes back to relying on your money to live your life well, because to get Jesus to help us to not depend on money, we have to be able to rely on human ability and learn by ourselves to live our lives without the money that will make it easier. comprende?

And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

Eventually, there will be a time when it will pay off to learn selflessness. These selfless people will hear the forests laughing. The forest is representing nature, which is the opposite of modern, urban civilization, which is in turn dependent on money. So nature is rejoicing that there are those who appreciate the god-given gifts in life, like nature, rather than the pleasures of money.

Maybe that's not right, but that's the way I see it.

crutchead 2006-01-10 01:03:55    

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FOR THE RECORD-
Typing away in a hurry on my two previous posts, I noticed I've typed in error the lines for the "alleged" backward message on the song found in its stanza:
'Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, and there's still time to change ... '.

Basically it's not that I'm trying to impose that the song Stairway to Heaven is 'satanic' per se-- it's only that I find the song to not only've totally blown me away with its lyrics, melodical structure and everything- it's just that I find the song to be a truly irrefutable proof of a paranormal phenomenon.

As for Page and Plant's (who to my surprise happens to be the one who 'did' the lyrics to the song, and not Page (who did say he is a 'fan' of Alister Crowley's work and books)) claim that there are no particular meaning(s) to the song - it could only pertain to either that its a statement of

a) a downright denial from Jimmy Page and Robert Plant under the interest to save their own butts from being staked by them religious circuits due to the nature of the song's lyrics.
or,
b) that explains Plant's occount when he's putting into paper the lyrics for the song - which according to Plant they just came out of their own to his surprise, that the words literally wrote itself on the paper (manly the first lines)-- which is somethong like that of the phenomenon called "automatic writing" (that's being practiced by some occultists), and that is why they themselves do not know the meaning to the song's lyrics, if that would be the case. 'Cos it's Captain Howdy who wrote 'em ~kidding.

Anyway, as for what the backward message says- they are as follows:
'Here's to my sweet Satan, no other made a path, for it makes me sad who's power is Satan!'

If you're cynical about it you could do a personal experiment yourself, by memorizing the said lines complete with how they sounded like along with the melody on how they went backwards- record your voice reciting them, then put your recorded voice's recitation in reverse, then try to see or rather hear what would appear backwards.

Having done this myself recording my own voice singing the backward message portion and recording it along with comparisons to the original recording done by Led Zeppelin,it resulted the same. I first recorded my own voice singing the forward segment, then playing my recorded voice backwards, I found it emit the same said backward message; afterwards by recording the backward message in my own voice reciting it out- complete with how the melody went backwards, then playing it back in reverse, what I heard are the following:
'yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run ... and there's still time to change!'

Funny that its diction even sounded like MATCHBOX 20's Rob Thomas.

avatar 2006-01-13 03:50:48    

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Dudes, enough, it has dawned on me that all the talk about different paths in this song can mean only one thing; to find your own meaning/rationalization. I love this song because it can be understood so differently, like a sonic rorscach test. Stop taking it as one absolute meaning, many of which are just moronic and poorly thought out and just LOVE THE MUSIC!!!

anonymous 2006-01-14 22:59:25    

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The person who was talking about "Fallen Angel: The Untold Story of Jimmy Page" and that Zeppelin were the servants of Lucifer I think you aught to go die. This world has enough of you fundamentalist, corrupting, lying cheating Christains who destroyed the Old Way and twist the minds of people by saying that, "If you're not Christian then you work for the Devil."

You don't look for reason in any situation. Music and poetry are some of the highest forms of communication (remember now that the Devil was the head of all music). And what of Gospel Music does Beelzebub control that too?

I agree with Frizzle Fry that the song has no meaning and yet infinite meanings, it means what ever you ant it to mean, so I can see your narrow-minded, stereotypical brain seeing that it means SATANSATANSATAN because that's what it means... To YOU.

FrankfurdToast.

anonymous 2006-01-22 11:13:43    

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The song is plain and simple "great" and all interpretations will not change it for the world!!! That's the bottom line.

anonymous 2006-01-30 20:59:38    

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I don't know what this song is about, but if you play any song backwards, the song is gonna sound messed up maybe even satanic......hmmmm?

SpikeRulesHell 2006-02-11 01:15:12    

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I agree that this song has many different interpretations. This is mine:

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

This lady is rich and thinks that she has enough money to buy herself a free ticket to salvation. She thinks that $ can buy happiness. Reminds me of the people who go to church and are complete assholes mon-sat.


When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.

'When' she gets to heaven, she knows (thinks) that she will be rewarded.

Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.


There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

She wants to be sure to get her money's worth of... whatever. She doesn't trust the 'sign on the wall', which I assume is an analogy of some sort, but I dunno.


In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Sometimes we think that we are doing the right thing because we want to, or because we tell ourselves that we are.


Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.


There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.

I agree with the theory that this is about his soul asking to be freed-to go to heaven.


In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.

Some say this is a reference to Jesus. I don't have an opinion on it, really. Good line, either way.


Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.


And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.

In legend/folklore the piper gives peace to those whose souls are filled with conflict. He will lead us to peace and understanding.


And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

Everlasting Life???


If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.

Not quite sure, to be honest. I'm pretty certain that it isn't about a woman's period though...


Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.

First of all, let me say that I completely disagree with the backwards message about satan and his toolshed or whatever. Like someone said, you can take any song and play it backwards and, sooner or later, there will be a bunch of people with ideas-all of them different-about it being satanic or about drugs. I believe that it is as simple as it sounds. We start out on the road to heaven or the road to hell, but we can always change that.


And it makes me wonder.


Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,

I don't know why someone's head it humming, maybe something to do with death. The piper calling you, in my opinion, means you are dying.


Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

I can see why some think the wind is the word of God. Actually, I think that's a pretty good explanation.


And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.

As we continue on the road of life, our shadows (bad deeds, evil thoughts) oughtweighing our soul (the humanity, the goodness in our hearts).


There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.

The lady (same lady) has found the right path (shines white light) and wants to show that everything (in the afterlife) is pure, good, untainted-if we want it to be.


And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.

If you want to be led down the right path, you will be. If you listen for the right tune, it will eventually come to you.


When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

I like the idea that the rock is Jesus. However, I have an idea of my own. I think that 'to be a rock and not to roll' means to stand up to evil, not give in to it (the rock being a person, the rolling symbolyzing giving in to evil). I really don't know about the 'all are one and one is all' part.


And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

I think that this means that the cycle will start again, that there will always be some (rich) person who thinks that they can buy their way into heaven. Or, maybe it's just a line Zep threw in there.
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I'm not trying to make this song sound religious. In fact, I've never read the Bible (criticize me later, I WILL read it). This is just my interpretation.

Someone mentioned Zep saying that there is no meaning to this song. I cannot believe that. Either they were trying not to cause a war over their song (lol) or they just didn't want the meaning known. I tend to agree with the latter. Is it really that hard to believe? Think about it, some bands refuse to allow their lyrics to be published. Why? Who knows? They just do. Maybe that's why they deny there being a hidden meaning.

On a biased(sp?) note, this is one of my favorite songs, besides Freebird, of course. Rock on.

PS: Just because many kids these days don't appreciate good rock and roll, don't steryotype us. I am 14 and I grew up listening to bands like Led Zeppelin, The Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath (there's a subject if you want to talk about satanic...), Pink Floyd, etc. Just remember that.

~SpIKe~

anonymous 2006-02-12 21:32:22    

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ok, deep breath...I've got quite a bit to say: first off, crutchhead, you have quite possibly made my top 5 longest posts I've ever seen list, keep it up. Man I love reading all the CRAP you guys write! let me first explain what this is not about: drugs...ok well it's not about drugs. Now, I have several friends who are in fact worshipers of the dark lord (aka Satan, Lucifer, The Devil, The Fallen Angel);this song is not about satan worship. I am a pagan. I actively practice wicca (which someone misspeled as wicka several posts ago but that doesn't bother me, I'm just saying this for your information) which means I am a wiccan. This song is not about my chosen religion. Now it is however about a woman building a staircase for Jimmy in his castle. for instance, the line "when she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed with a word she can get what she came for" (I'm a little shaky on that so it might not be 100% correct but you should know what I'm talking about) is about how she ran out of supplies, told jimmy and he had the store send some over for her. I listened to the song backwards and I did hear the whole "satanic message thing" and I think it was cool as shit that they put it in there. Of course, I also believe Paul McCartney is dead so...Beleive what you want. By the way, it is a widely known fact that Jimmy was an "occultist" and did dabble in satanism a bit" I think that about sums it all up...And if I forgot something I'll say it later in another post.

stublues 2006-02-17 10:53:19    

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Hey guys,
This is a bit of an aside, but I thought I'd add some notes on backward masking...
There are four typical ways that people say "secret messages" are put in music. The first is the most simple. You just record something at a much lower volume level than the ambiant tune. An example of this can be found in the song "Love Bites." If listened to carefully you can faintly hear the line "In the heat of the night, love bites" in the intro. Nothing too devious there, and not too hidden either.
The second method is also pretty straightforward. You record something, and then reverse it on the tape. There are quite a few examples of this, but one that springs to mind is in Cheap Trick's song "Voices" the Lords Prayer is played reversed (Satanic? Probably not. The band states "We certainly could have used something much worse..." In a black mass the Lords Prayer IS recited backward, but the words are said in reverse order, not the whole thing phonetically reversed. A small but significant difference) This type of reversal is pretty easy to pick out on a recording, and is usually done as a joke, for publicity, etc.
A third method would be to come up with a phrase that says something one way, but then something else when reversed. This is not as easy as one might think. When speech is reversed it doesn't keep the same structure as it had to begin with. There are different numbers of syllables, for example. Therefore if you read a phrase backward on to a tape and then reversed it, it wouldn't come out as the same phrase. Weird, but true. Try it... This fact makes these type of reversals interesting, but almost impossible to predict. Even though, there are tons of "examples" that people hear on recordings. Queen's "I like to smoke marijuana" in "Another One Bites the Dust," The Beatles' "Turn me on deadman" in "Revolution 9." All of these examples have one thing in common; They are not very clear and can actually be interpreted in several ways. The reason for this is that the human brain identifies patterns in order to make sense of stimuli- even if no patterns exist. Therefore most, if not all, of these examples are simply accidents.
The final way is kind of interesting. In this method a phrase is recorded and then reversed. The reversed phrase is then learned and rerecorded spoken (or sung) in that manner. Then THAT recording is played reversed. The result is a weird "otherworldly" sounding dialect that's pretty cool. I don't know of this being done on any music recordings, but the TV show "Twin Peaks" used it for a dream sequence to great effect.
By the way, the great conspiracy buffs notwithstanding, there is absolutely no evidence that backward messages can be understood by the unconscious mind (or conscious, for that matter)
SO, what we have is a tempist in a teapot. There probably never were any intentional backward messages in "Stairway," and even if there were they wouldn't affect anyone who heard them. End of story. Case closed. Let's all get on with our lives.

anonymous 2006-02-25 12:03:40    

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If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.

If you play this bit backwards it says:
Oh here's to my sweet satan.
The one who's little path would make me sad,
whos power is satan.
He'll give you the 666.
There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer,
Sad Satan.

Listen to it at:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php

anonymous 2006-02-28 17:14:13    

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Just like everyone else said, this song is about a lady buying drugs and dying. I think that it should be called stairway to hell though because of all the backmasking and subliminal messages about Satan. Also if she's dying because of too much drugs, she deserves to go to hell!

secret_eagle3688 2006-03-08 00:33:43    

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I'm going to break down a PERSONAL interpretation - sometimes the responses in here get viscously defensive - throughout the song. I truely believe in this meaning, but that's just me.

I have heard the song played backwards...and for those who haven't heard it yet, try it...it's straight up creepy. I know I sound like I'm following the crowd, but look at the lyrics read normally too - they tell you about it.

At least read some of my theory.

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Obvious guess is about a lady buying drugs and a "stairway" to heaven or death, yada yada yada.


There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

This is when it gets wierd. What the hell does she want to be sure about? I have no clue, but one thing that does stick out for me is "CAUSE YOU KNOW SOMETIMES WORDS HAVE TWO MEANINGS"...why? Because this whole song, exactly that, are words with TWO meanings. Played forward it's about drugs, played backwards on a record player its openly interpretable that the vocals sound like satanic worship. He wouldn't just write meaningless words here...he showed in the first paragraph that clearly he gave the song a sense of direction. He could have easily continued his story of the lady's drug problems, but "words have two meanings"? That doesn't make sense as part of the song. Its like Paige is singing quietly and then stares at the listener and screams this part out. "SOMETIMES ALL OF OUR THOUGHTS ARE MISGIVEN" can be similarly interpretted.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

In this stanza, S.T.H. gets accumulatively more illogical. He talked about a LADY through the first two stanza (besides 'it makes me wonder', which could have been logical that he was wondering about the lady), but now he starts talking about himself. What does HE...ROBERT PLANT...have to do with this lady? Nothing. All I can think is that this is more gibberish so that backwards it can be interpretted differently.


And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

"IF WE ALL CALL THE TUNE THEN THE PIPER WILL LEAD US TO REASON" is a stretch but can be seen as another interpretation of Paige/Plant hinting a hidden message. "The Piper" could be interpreted as Satan. Upon the discovery of the new meaning, a new day will dawn and the forests will echo with laughter.


If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

This played backwards is absolutely on purpose. Its message is clear backwards, and its forward play has no logical meaning. The "TWO BATHS WE CAN GO BY" could be another hint at the ambiguous nature of the song.


Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

OK, am I taking crazy pills? "YOUR HEAD IS HUMMING"...he's talking to THE LISTENER...he went from a lady, to himself, to US..."IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, THE PIPER'S CALLING YOU TO JOIN HIM" We don't know it, but satan is calling us through these words.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

"AND IF YOU LISTEN VERY HARD, THE TUNE WILL COME TO YOU AT LAST". That just about says it. If we "listened very hard" to this song, its illogical surface will make sense.

I truely believe this, it just makes too much sense.

anonymous 2006-03-08 19:09:27    

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I would just like to say that as a LZ fan from the time of birth, I think you are all crazy for trying to put a lable on the greatest rock band of all time. And I am also very insulted that you would go so far to try and explain it with the most un-proven piece of literature ever written- the Bible. I am not a religious person, but I think the effect this song has on a person when they hear it for the first or one hundreth time is beyond explaination of word or creed. If you want to preach, go to a church. Don't try to explain away the most natural of feelings with a large book of fairy tales.

This song is beyond interpretation. The reason the artists who wrote this song say it is about nothing, is because it is about nothing. Sometimes if you try to hard to make people understand things they become more confused. If you try to let them intrepret for themselves, they may get something entirely different from you. Which does NOT make them wrong by any means. This song can mean too many things for you to explain to someone else's ears what they just heard.

So, for the love of music and the indescribable things it can do to you, stop trying to explain this song, and let the song explain it's self.

EAD

SurferManHead 2006-03-09 22:49:10    

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This song was writtin in one night and that was it so how deep the meaning of this song goes is unknown. It is pretty much open for interpretation. I doubt that anyone knows what this song means because led has never released the true meaning and who knows if there ever was

anonymous 2006-03-12 23:29:29    

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"There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven"

The song starts out about a lady, Erma Reese-Gywnn, who believes everything that dos not glitter is not valuable and she's buying a stairway to heaven. In Jimi P's castle, he was building a sun deck or a patio on the third story, which could be refered to as heaven, because of its height and beauty. In this song "buying"= building. They hired some lady contractor to build it. and when she brought in lumber, she caused damage and did not care of all the valuables she broke, hence "all that glitters is gold" (if it is not gold, its worthless) so she's building a stairway to heaven, heaven is the third story of jimmy's castle.

"When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for"

in the town they were in, there was only one hardware shop and it was closed, the owner on vacation. and erma, the contractor, needed tools, so she threatened them with all types of stuff and they eventually opened up the store, hence "with a word she can get what she came for"

"There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings"

to secure the sundeck she was building she had to enter jimmys guitar room, but there was a sign that said "stay the fuck out". without permission she went in. more than 95f his guitars were stolen in the room. The "sometimes words have to meanings" is robert plants sarcasm, because stay the fuck out means one thing....stay the fuck out!

"In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven"

reportedly Jimmy was out on his property, singing in his favorite tree, when he saw Erma's helper hanging out the Guitar Room's window. His berserk ranting ("misgiven thoughts") could be heard in the next county

"There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking"


west of jimmy pages castle, was a coal buringp power plant. sulphur was just pouring everywhere, this pissed off robert plant because it was bad to the enviroment. He formed a protest group, but it soon was ended because there eyes were opened, they actually needed the power plant after all.

"And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter"

a choir for led zeppelin was to be formed, the zeppettes, and the new day for them would be singing careers, but they could not sign right, that's why he says a new day will dawn when we all call the tune, when they get it right they will get singing careers. They were laughed at by the neighbors, as the neighbors watched them rehearse from next door, hence the laughing forests.

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now"

after some stupid parties that led zep attended, clothes were found in weird places. I guess it was a dress up party, after they all got drunk that is.

"It's just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on"

IT is the clothes scattered everywhere, may queen is a washing machine page bought. Therefor its a spring clean for may queen.when he bought the machine, he had 2 choices, return or keep. but he had a warranty, that's why he still had time to change the roads of keep or return.

"Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know"

robert plants worst hangover

"The piper's calling you to join him",

John Paul Jones or John Baldwin, wanted Robert to go back to london with him

"Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind"


this line is written to Erma Reese, the sundeck she made was torn down by a spring torrent that blew through that year, hence it lies on the wind".....she did a crappy job by the way, that's basically what it means

"And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold"

guess what, while the guys were driving down a road, turns out Erma dropped out the carpenter buisness, and she was waving a flashlight as she was trying to hitchhike. She promised them "everything still turns to gold. She got less than a dozen thousand pounds of earning from the sundeck job.

"And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all"

it means, "hey zeppettes, keep practicing"

"To be a rock and not to roll.
And she's buying a stairway to heaven"

Plant decided to be a rock, and SIT at home, in one spot, as a rock does. and not roll around tours. He wanted to stay at home with his wife and be a father for a while. and she's buying a stairway to heaven....in this point of the song, heaven changes, heaven is no longer a metaphor for pages castle, but it is now the bahamas, the last they heard of her was, she was buying a ticket to the behamas, possibly from the money she earned off the sundeck.

this my friends, is the meaning of stairway to heaven, nothing with the devil, nothing about drugs. nothing about going to heaven, just the life of led zeppelin. lets keep it this way

Patrick 2006-03-20 12:10:15    

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It's about a woman who thinks everything that is represented or looks good will be good therefore she is buying the stairway to heaven but when she gets there it isn't what it was sold to be.