What does Tangerine mean?

Led Zeppelin: Tangerine Meaning

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Tangerine Lyrics

Measuring a summer's day, I only finds it slips away to grey,
The hours, they bring me pain.

[Chorus]
Tangerine, Tangerine, Living reflection from a dream;
I was her love, she was my queen, And now a thousand years between.

Thinking how...

  1. anonymous
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    Jan 15th 2011 !⃝

    Not sure if this holds water, but sometimes it reminds me of King Henry VIII and Anne Bolin (Queen Elizabeth's Mom). Especially the older movie "Anne of a Thousand Days".
    Either way, whatever it means... I Love it! And "Thank You" as well!

  2. anonymous
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    Sep 30th 2008 !⃝

    These lyrics always move me, The first time I heard the solo my eyes started watering, Led Zeppelin's members were geniuses they make the emotion come into you, the emotion they want you to feel.

  3. anonymous
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    Mar 16th 2008 !⃝

    I think it's about lost love.

  4. anonymous
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    Feb 13th 2007 !⃝

    I don't know about Stairway being about Lord of the Rings but anyway, Tangerine has always been a relateable song for me, and is in fact one of my favorite Zeppelin songs. I see it in a pretty straightforward way: falling in love and then losing it. Honestly, I just looked over the lyrics for the first time in a long time, and they still strike me as being full of sorrow.

  5. anonymous
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    Jan 2nd 2007 !⃝

    It's known that numerous Led Zeppelin songs were influenced by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. In "The Silmillarion" there is a famous tree, Laurelin, that shined in the land of the Valar before the Sun and lit the Earth for the Elf kings and queens. Laurelin grew a golden fruit, of course, and I imagined something like a tangerine when I read it--

    "Living reflection from a dream
    I was her love, she was my queen
    and now a thousand years between"

    Jimmy Page wrote this song, and the other two songs I know were influenced by Tolkien were actually written by Robert Plant (Stairway to Heaven and The Battle for Evermore). So I don't say anything definitively. I actually was just looked for interpretations as my own. Please share your thoughts.

  6. nagromnai
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    Nov 16th 2006 !⃝

    Gorgeous - such a delicious song

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