Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin): lyrics, translations and analysis

To music Stairway to heaven This is the most celebrated creation of the English rock band Led Zeppelin. A long song (7 minutes and 55 seconds long) is a fourth faixa do album IV. The lyrics were written mainly by Robert Plant and a melody by guitarist Jimmy Page.

Let me consider the song as the most emblematic work of the rock genre. A Rolling Stone magazine classificou Stairway to heaven com at 31st place, no ranking of 500 melhores music of all tempos.

Lyrics

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

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

It makes me wonder
It makes me wonder

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

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It makes me wonder
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
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
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

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

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

Analyze

A longa lyrics Starway to heaven It initially tells the story of a profitable woman who is excessively optimistic about her or her future little promise. We do not know practically anything about this woman: who or what is her name, where she lives, how many years she fears. Or only since we fear that it seems to import excessively as a material world. E é assim that starts at the letter:

There's a lady who's sure all
that glitters is gold (o que brilha é ouro)
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

The initial part of the song revolves around the crenças and projects dessa mulher não nomeada. Besides knowing what she wants — something valuable, dear — she knows where to go for it.

Determined, I am going to look for such another place, checking it, as I do not run according to the plans of it:

And when she gets there she knows
if the stores are all close (if the stores are dated)
With a word she can get what she came for

But there is nothing that impels the realization of her desire. Suddenly a song changes from perspective and begins to narrate a natural environment, as you pass by the stream. Nessa part of the song, to music explores or magical kingdom of spirituality and transport or ouvinte for a more mystical vision of life

A camera seems to focus, ao same tempo, or side of outside (or space), and or side of within (or that passes na cabeça do eu-lrico):

In a tree by the brook (Em uma arvore à beira do riacho)
there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our (Às vezes todos os nossos)
thoughts are misgiving

As the letter is multifaceted and presents various possibilities that are very different from reading, you ouvintes são invited to interpret with enough freedom to music à su maneira, increasing to magic and mystery da breeding.

Note, for example, the abstract nature present I am not going to follow gives music:

In my thoughts I have seen
rings of smoke through the trees (anéis de fumaça através das arvores)
And the voices of those who stand looking (E as vozes daqueles que ficam parados olhando)

It is known that the author gives lyrics, Robert Plant, consulted or livro Magical Arts in Celtic England, by Lewis Spence, and fez gave his main influence to the composition of Stairway to heaven.

By letter, fragmented, many times it is very psychedelic, using disconnected elements that nothing seemed to see how it had been composted before or how it will be invoked to follow.

With reference to May Queen (Rainha de Maio), for example, only once, in a pontual way and sem any preparation or clarification:

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now (Não fique frightened)
It's just a spring clean
for the May Queen (for Rainha de Maio)

This manancial of possibilities of reading and interpretation is a great potentialities of the music of two Led Zeppelin. Stairway to heaven it definitely seems to be a song that brings together multiple songs within it.

Racks of music creation

Jimmy Page started writing music in May 1970. Music was recorded in December 1970, not studied by Island Record, in London, and recorded soon not Ano-Novo. So Jimmy Page worked on the initial instrumental part.

In an interview with BBC News, Jimmy Page talks about how Stairway of Heaven I was raised:

On the other hand, it was composted by Robert Plant, fora do estúdio. The verses will emerge in a country house, not the end of 1970.

A song Estreou no radio no day April 1, 1971. A emission recording was carried out live, not Paris Cinema, in Oxford Street, London. A BBC exhibited as images on April 4.

Stairway to heaven It was a thunderous succession of the band, to music that was played - an estimate that has been exhibited more than three thousand people from times to radio stations in 2000 - that the vocalist got tired of singing. Starting in 1977, Led Zeppelin stopped playing music religiously to us, becoming an eventual appearance.

From tempos to tempos, Jimmy Page made alterations to music, when he appeared live in shows. It was a way of always innovating by experimenting new criações. A canção também ganhou variação ao be recorded by various artists such as Frank Zappa, Ann Wilson, Heart and Par Boone.

In October 2016, I chose Classic Rock magazine or guitar solo by Jimmy Page as or melhor of all tempos. O own artist, however, comments in respect of the praise:

Não é o melhor, mas é muito bom. I know everyone said that he or I love him, he is so good, but there are others that I prefer.

Translation

There is a mulher who accredits
What do you do or what shine is ouro
E ela vai buy a scadaria para o paradise
And when she checks her, she knows that
It is so estiverem all dated
How one word will she get what I was looking for

E ela vai buy a scadaria para o paradise

There is a plate on the wall
But she wants certainty
Pois you know that sometimes the words are ambiguous
Numa arvore perto do riacho
There is a singing bird that sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are disturbing

Isso made me think
Isso made me think

Eu sinto uma coisa ao olhar para o Oeste
E meu espírito chora for being indo embora
In my thoughts, I saw anéis de fumaça through the trees
E so voices tell them that they ficam olhando

Isso made me think
It really made me think

I whispered that in short
I know we all go to song
Então or flute player will lead us to reason
And there will be a new day
For those who will resist
The forest will go echoing with laughter

Se houver um alvoroço na sua horta
Don't be scared
This is spring cleaning for rainha de Maio
Sim, you have two paths that you can follow
More a long time ago
Ainda has time for you to change direction

And isso made me think

His head is singing and I'm not going to stop
Você não saiba case
O flutist wants you to join him
Dear senhora, is it ouvindo or vento soprar?
And you knew
That its scadaria repousa does not vento whispering?

And when we continue on the road
Like our greater shadows than our souls
We see a senhora that we all know each other
That emits a white light and wants to show
As you do ainda vira ouro
E se você ouvir com muita atenção
A song enfim will chegar até você
When you tudo for um and um for tudo
Be a rocha and not roll

E ela vai buy a scadaria para o paradise

Curiosities around music

• As the song is long enough for the parents (it has seven minutes and fifty five seconds), the sofreu band muita commercial press so that the faixa fosse reduced to be melhor oil no radio. Despite the press, Led Zeppelin resisted the extensive continuous song;
• Stairway to heaven It was the most requested music in American radio stations during the 70's;
• There is a theory that music, played backwards, reveals a satanic message. The recording company responds to the accusations in a categorical way: “our record players play in just one direction: for the front”;
• The composer Jimmy Page claims to be an occultist and even a book dedicated to the subject (The Equinox Booksellers and Publishers). Jimmy ended up giving up the free project because he had no time to devote himself to business.

• Music was composed of little years, in pieces. Second or bassist John Paul Jones:

(Page and Plant) voltaram das montanhas galesas with an introduction and or riff of the guitar. It is literally in front of a large fire in a country house. I played a flute and played a simple riff that gave us an introduction, then I was attached to a piano for a next section, accompanying the guitars

To accusation of plaágio

Há quem say that to music Stairway to heaven serious plication gives music Taurus, released by the Spirit band, three years before the composition of Led Zeppelin was released (see or video below).

Or composer gives music Taurus, or bassist Mark Andes, chegou a processar or British rock group. Plant, do Led Zeppelin always denied allegations of plagiarism, arguing that the breeding was carried out not at the beginning of two years 70 in a Hampshire studio.

It was not on June 23, 2016, or a North-American juror decided that, in fact, there was no reason to declare that the music had been plagiarized.

Regarding the accusation of copying, Robert Plant affirmed in an interview granted:

Foi uma loucura, uma insanidade, a tremendous loss of tempo. There are twelve fundamental notes in western music, and you are dedicated to movements. We do not need to have received the tribunes, but it was our music. Falei as Jimmy [Page, co-author of music] and dissemos: “Let's face them”. Do you want to defend your direitos, or what are you going to do? He never imagines that he will pass through isso. You sat on one side of the hill, olha the mountains, wrote a music and 45 years ago, saem com essa. Deus do céu!

Video of Stairway to heaven year alive

The first time that music was played live it was in Belfast, in Northern Ireland, not on March 5, 1971.

Album IV

Released on November 8, 1971, or Led Zeppelin IV album, which sheltered the song Stairway to heaven, It was a public success I have sold more than 37 thousand units in the world.

As faixas do disco são as follows:

1. Black dog
2. Rock And Roll
3. The battle of evermore
4. Starway to heaven
5. Misty mountain hop
6. Four sticks
7. Going to California
8. When the levee breaks

A full letter of Stairway to heaven It is the only present not to insert the album:

Celebration day, or Led Zeppelin film

In September 2012, several cinemas around the world exibiram or film Celebration day, a production that revolves around the show held on December 10, 2007, at O2 Arena, in London. Later it was released in DVD format.

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