Stairway+to+Heaven

** Title of Song: ** Stairway to Heaven
 * Name of the Artist(s): ** Led Zeppelin
 * Year of Release: ** 1971
 * Album Title: ** Led Zeppelin IV
 * Type of Music: ** Classic Rock
 * Review of the Song/Why I like it: ** Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin, is a long, interesting song that is also one of the greatest rock songs ever written in my opinion. Throughout the song, it progresses from almost a folk feel to a hard rock feel. Even though it is about eight minutes long, the listener never gets bored because the rhythym of the song is constantly changing while Robert Plant, the singer, sings a multidude of metaphors, the meanings of which are not all known.
 * Similar Artists: ** Cream, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull, Van Halen, The Who, Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd
 * Related Information: **  [|Song Information], [|Led Zeppelin website]

**Song Lyrics:** There’s a lady whose 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.

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 is a songbird who sings: Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

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

Theres 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.

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

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

And it makes me wonder. Ooooooh…

Your head is humming and it won’t go, In case you don’t know: The pipers calling you to join him.

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

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, yeah, to be a rock and not to roll.  And she’s buying a stairway… to heaven.

Created by: Daniel Masetti 6/3/10