"Stairway to Heaven"

in my opinion one of the best songs in history...

so stairway to heaven is a song by a British rock band "Led Zeppelin". The song was written in 1970 and released in 1971.

The song is one of the most known rock and roll songs in history and its the song you think of when people mention "Led Zeppelin"...

The lyrics were not only bold and inspirational, they were unlike anything of their era. "Robert Plant" the lead singer of "Led Zeppelin" said this in an interview "My hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady is sure, all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven'. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat." Plant's own explanation of the lyrics was that it "was some cynical aside about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving back any thought or consideration.

No one knows really what the lyrics is about, It's one of those great songs that can mean many different things depending on the person. You put yourself in the lyrics and try to get a sense out of it to interpret the meaning. I my self can see hope n the lyrics.

So I made a little analyse of the lyrics:

To me this song means lots of different things. one is the paths. we can travel on two paths, one the road to heaven and the other the road to hell. our paths change all the time in our own life's. the piper is god, and he wants us to "join him." this song is also about death. the lady is dying. she's buying the stairway with her life. at the beginning, it says that "she's sure all the glitters are gold" this means that she already sees the light, and she's dying. the sign and the song bird are just there because it begins to paint a picture of heaven. the narrator or singer is looking to the west, and "his spirit is crying for leaving" his soul as left already and he has died too. but his soul his remorse full or sad for leaving the world. if we ask the piper, being god will help, sort of like a prayer, and god will help you through an other day. two roads you can go by, and before you die, you can change the road you are currently on. "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." this is god calling you, and your death. it comes like a wind, it happens that fast. "as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls". shadows are tall when the sun is setting, and this is meaning that the sun is setting as we walk down the road, our life's are coming to an end. and the lady from the beginning is in white light, like an angel. "listen very hard the tune will come to you at last." this means everyone will die. we are all as one and to be a rock and not roll is impossible, all of our life's will come to an end. this song as a lot of symbolism in it, I hope you see what I'm saying. the cool thing about symbolism, is there is no wrong or right answer.

The song also has one of the greatest guitar play of all time. "Jimmy Page's" acoustic picking rising into chiming chords, which introduce the solo, a brilliant succession of phrases that steadily moves toward rock & roll ecstasy. Everything is perfect about it, the beautiful start rising in to rock and roll, and the solo is one big music orgasm:D

So when people say that this is not the best Led Zeppelin song and that the people that says it is the best song don't like Led Zeppelin, it's bullshit. If you look at the history of the greatest songs of all time the majority of songs is not close to the music that the band plays, it sticks out from the bands other music.

No matter how many times I listen to it, the song always manages to stop me from whatever I'm doing to just listen. It's truly unbelievable.