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"We didn’t over-rehearse things. We just had them so that they were just right, so that there was this tension – maybe there might be a mistake. But there won’t be, because this is how we’re all going to do it and it’s gonna work!"
"We were crafting albums for the album market. It was important, I felt, to have the flow and the rise and fall of the music and the contrast, so that each song would have more impact against the other."
"We’d get it up to a serious speed, so it’s really firing on all cylinders, and then you’d start recording. With the red light on there’s even more urgency to it. We’d arrive at those takes in a pretty short time – just a handful of takes, maybe. If a song started to labour, and it just wasn’t working, there’s no point in just recording it. We’d just stop it and do something else, and then return to it later."
"I wanted it to be totally in character of what’s going on with the lyrics and a summing up of my guitar playing for that particular song. What I’d do is just limber up and then, okay, put the red light on. And again, those solos weren’t done over hours and hours. They were pretty much improvised. They weren’t worked out note for note. Never. The solos were always: take a deep breath and go for it! For the spontaneity. I might have worked out how I might start it off. But that’s it."
"Stop playing the guitar one day and you will notice. Stop touching it for two days and your teacher will notice. Stop playing it three times and the audience will start to notice."
"I have to do a lot of hard work before I can get anywhere near those stages of consistent, total brilliance."
"Wanna tell you about the girl I love My she looks so fine She's the only one that I been dreamin' of Maybe someday she will be all mine I wanna tell her that I love her so I thrill with her every touch I need to tell her she's the only one I really love."
"I got a woman, wanna ball all day I got a woman, she won't be true, no I got a woman, stay drunk all the time I said I got a little woman and she won't be true."
"In the bars, with the men who play guitars Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times My little lover does a midnight shift She's followed around all the time I guess there's just one thing a-left for me to do Gonna pack my bags and move on my way Cause I got a worried mind Sharin' what I thought was mine Gonna leave her where the guitars play."
"It starts out like a murmur Then it grows like thunder Until it bursts inside of you Try to hold it steady Wait until you're ready Any second now will do Throw the door wide open Not a word is spoken Anything that you want to do Ya know, ya know, ya know..."
"In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man, Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can. No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam."
"Good Times, bad times, you know I've had my share. Well, my woman left home for a brown-eyed man But I still don't seem to care."
"I know what it means to be alone, I sure do wish I was at home. I don't care what the neighbors say, I'm gonna love you each and every day."
"Babe, baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you. I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you. I'll leave you when the summertime, Leave you when the summer comes a rollin' Leave you when the summer comes along."
"Woman, woman, I know, I know it's good to have you back again. And I know that one day baby, it's gonna really grow, yes it is. We gonna go walkin through the park every day. Hear what I say, every day/Baby, its really growin, you made me happy every single day But now I've got to go away."
"Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true. A-wanted a woman, never bargained for you. Lots of people talkin', few of them know Soul of a woman was created below."
"Every day I work so hard, bringin' home my hard-earned pay. Try to love you, baby, but you push me away. Don't know where you're goin', only know just where you've been. Sweet little baby, I want you again."
"Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do, Messin' around, every guy in town. Puttin' me down for thinkin' of someone new. Always the same, playin' your game. Drive me insane, trouble's gonna come to you. One of these days, and it won't be long, You'll look for me, but, baby, I'll be gone."
"Hey, girl, stop what you're doin', Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin. I don't know what it is I like about you, but I like it a lot. Won't you let me hold you, now, let me feel your lovin' touch?"
"Communication breakdown, it's always the same, Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane."
"Hey, girl, I got somethin' I think you oughta know, Hey, babe, I wanna tell ya that I love you so. I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah, I'm never gonna let you go, 'cause I like your charm."
"You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin', I'm gonna send you back to schoolin', Way down inside honey, you need it, I'm gonna give you my love, I'm gonna give you my love."
"Way down inside. Way down inside. Way down inside, woman, you Woman Woman, you You need it Need Love."
"And if I say to you tomorrow Take my hand, child, come with me. It's to a castle I will take you Where what's to be, they say will be."
"Catch the wind, see us spin, sail away, leave today, way up high in the sky. But the wind won't blow, you really shouldn't go, it only goes to show That you will be mine, by takin' our time."
"So if you wake up with the sunrise And all your dreams are still as new. And happiness is what you need so bad Well, girl, the answer live with you, yeah."
"Squeeze me, babe, 'till the juice runs down my leg. Do, squeeze, squeeze me, baby, until the juice runs down my leg. The way you squeeze my lemon-a I'm gonna fall right outta bed."
"If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, There would still be you and me.Kind woman, I give you my all Kind woman, nothing more. Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, Tears of loves lost in the days gone byMy love is strong, with you there is no wrong. Together we shall go until we die, my, my, my. Inspiration is what you are to me; Inspiration, look 'n' see."
"Hey, fellas, have ya heard the news? Ya know that Annie's back in town. It won't take long, just watch and see All the fellas lay their money down. Her style is new but the face is the same as it was so long ago. But from her eyes a different smile like of the one who knows."
"People talkin' all around 'bout the way you left me flat, I don't care what the people say, I know where their jive is at. One thing I do have on my mind, if you can clarify please do: It's the way you call me by another guy's name when I try to make love to you."
"With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat, Livin', lovin', she's just a woman. Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac, Livin', lovin', she's just a woman."
"Alimony, alimony payin' your bills, Livin', lovin', she's just a woman. When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills. Livin', lovin', she's just a woman."
"Leaves are fallin' all around, time I was on my way. Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay. But now it's time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way. For now I smell the rain, and with it, pain. And it's headed my way. Aw, sometimes I grow so tired, But I know I've got one thing I got to do."
"Got no time to for spreadin' roots, The time has come to be gone. And to' our health we drank a thousand times, it's time to ramble on."
"A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now. Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world, I gotta find my girl. On my way, I've been this way ten years to the day. Ramble on, gotta find the queen of all my dreams."
"Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear. How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air. T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum and the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah."
"Try to tell you baby, what you tryin' to do? Tryin' to love me baby, love some other man too. Bring it on home."
"Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods, we'll drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore."
"So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing."
"Had a friend, she once told me, "You got love, you ain't lonely." Now she's gone and left me only Looking for what I knew.Mmm, I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now, Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now. It's very easy, just."
"Working from seven to eleven every night, It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right. I've really been the best, the best of fools, I did what I could, yeah. 'Cause I love you, baby, How I love you, darling, How I love you, baby. I'm in love with you, girl, little girl. But baby, since I've been loving you, yeah, I'm about to lose my worried mind."
"Do you remember mama, when I knocked upon your door? I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah. I open my front door, I hear my back door slam. You know I must have one of them new fangled, new fangled back doors man."
"As I walk down the highway all I do is sing this song And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along. There is no doubt about the words are clear, The voice is strong, is oh so strong."
"Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while, Think I see my friends coming, Riding a many mile. Friends, did you get some silver? Did you get a little gold? What did you bring me, my dear friends, To keep me from the Gallows Pole? What did you bring me to keep me from the Gallows Pole?"
"Tangerine, Tangerine, Living reflection of a dream; I was her love, she was my queen, And now a thousand years between."
"I don't know how I'm gonna tell you, I can't play with you no more. I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told m, My friend, the boy next door."
"And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers, But all that lives is born to die. And so I say to you that nothing really matters, And all you do is stand and cry."
"Ah caught you smiling at me, That's the way it should be. Like a leaf is to a tree, so fine. Ah all the good times we had, I sang love songs so glad. Always smiling, never sad, so fine."
"Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove. Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thing, gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting. Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way, watch your honey drip, can't keep away."
"Didn't take too long 'fore I found out, what people mean by down and out. Spent my money, took my car, started telling her friends she wants to be a star. I don't know but I been told, a big-legged woman ain't got no soul."
"All I ask for when I pray, steady rollin' woman gonna come my way. Need a woman gonna hold my hand, won't tell me no lies, make me a happy man."
"It's been a long time since I rock and rolled, It's been a long time since I did the Stroll. Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, Let me get it back, baby, where I come from. It's been a long time, been a long time, Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time. Yes it has."
"Hoh, it's been so long since we walked in the moonlight A-making vows that just can't work right. Haw-haw, yeah, open your arms, open your arms, open your arms, Baby let my love come runinng in, a-yeah."
"The Queen of Light took her bow and then she turned to go, The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom and walked the night alone."
"The apples of the valley hold the seeds of happiness; The ground is rich from tender care, which they do not forget, no, no. Dance in the dark night, sing to the morning light."
"The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath. The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black (ride on)."
"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."
"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. 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. And it makes me wonder, Really makes me wonder."
"And it's whispered that soon if we all call a 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't 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 To be a rock and not to roll."
"Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby, What do you, what do you think I saw? Crowds of people sittin' on the grass with flowers in their hair said, Hey, Boy, do you wanna score?" And you know how it is I really don't know what time it was, woh, oh, oh so I asked them if I could stay a while."
"If you go down in the streets today, Baby, you better, You better open your eyes. Folk down there really don't care, really don't care, don't care, really don't Which, which way the pressure lies, So I've decided what I'm gonna do now. So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains Where the spirits go now, Over the hills where the spirits fly, ooh. I really don't know."
"And when the owls cry in the night Oh, Baby, Baby, when the pines begin to cry. Baby, Baby, Baby, how do you feel? If the river runs dry, baby, how do you feel?"
"Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. Made up my mind to make a new start, Going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there's a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.Took my chances on a big jet plane, Never let them tell you that they're all the same. The sea was red and the sky was grey, Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today. The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake As the children of the sun began to awake."
"Seems like the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose and it started to flow, I think I might be sinking. Throw me a line if I reach it in time, I'll meet you up there where the path runs straight and high."
"To find a queen without a king, They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born. Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams, Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems."
"Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan; Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home."
"If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay."
"Don't it make you feel bad when you're tryin' to find your way home, You don't know which way to go?"
"Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good. Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good. When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move."
"All last night sat on the levee and moaned; All last night sat on the levee and moaned. Thinkin' about my baby and my happy home, Going, going to Chicago.. Going to Chicago.. Sorry but I can't take you..Going down.. going down now.. going down..."
"Hear my song. People won't you listen now? Sing along. You don't know what you're missing now. Any little song that you know Everything that's small has to grow. And it has to grow!"
"California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain, Honolulu starlight, the song remains the same!"
"This is the springtime of my loving - the second season I am to know You are the sunlight in my growing—so little warmth I've felt before. It isn't hard to feel me glowing—I watched the fire that grew so low."
"These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall. This is the wonder of devotion—I seek the torch we all must hold. This is the mystery of the quotient: - Upon us all, upon us all a little rain must fall...It's just a little rain..."
"Hey lady—you got the love I need Maybe more than enough. Oh darling, darling, darling walk a while with me. You've got so much...so much..."
"Many have I loved, many times been bitten Many times I've gazed along the open road. Many times I've lied - Many times I've listened Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. Many dreams come true and some have silver linings I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold."
"Many is a word that only leaves you guessin'; Guessin' 'bout a thing you really ought to know. You really ought to know. I really ought to know."
"Dancing days are here again as the summer evenings grow I got my flower, I got my power, I got a woman who knows."
"I saw a lion, he was standin' alone with a tadpole in a jar."
"You'll be my only, my one and only. Is that the way it should start?"
"When I read the letter you wrote, it made me mad mad mad. When I read the news that it brought me, it made me sad sad sad. But I still love you so, I can't let you go I love you- ooh baby I love you."
"Close the doors, put out the light You know they won't be home tonight. The snow falls hard and don't you know The winds of Thor are blowing cold. They're wearing steel that's bright and true, They carry news that must get through."
"Walking side by side with death, The devil mocks their every step. The snow drives back the foot that's slow, The dogs of doom are howling more."
"Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain, Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the brain. Got no time to pack my bag, my foot's outside the door, Got a date, can't be late for the high hopes hailla ball."
"Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar, Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more. Singing about the good things and the sun that lights the day, Used to sing on the mountains, Has the ocean lost its way?"
"I've been to London, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it. I always knew what it was for."
"In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn All I want for you to do is take my body home. Well, well, well so I can die easy..."
"Jesus, gonna make up my dyin' bed. Meet me, Jesus, meet me. Meet me in the middle of the air. If my wings should fail me, Lord, Please meet me with another pair."
"Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn; Let me blow your horn. Oh, I never did, did no harm."
"And I see them in the streets, And I see them in the field, And I hear them shouting under my feet. And I know it's got to be real. Oh, Lord, deliver me. All the wrong I've done, You can deliver me, Lord. I only wanted to have some fun."
"From the houses of the holy, we can watch the white doves go. From the door comes Satan's daughter, and it only goes to show, You know."
"So the world is spinning faster Are you dizzy when you're stoned? Let the music be your master. Will you heed the master's call? Oh-whoa-oh, Satan an' man Said there ain't no use in cryin'. 'Cause it will only, only drive you mad. Does it hurt to hear them lyin'? Was this the only world you had?"
"Ooh, trouble-free transmission, helps your oils flow, Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all."
"Dig that heavy metal underneath your hood, Baby, I can work all night, believe I got the perfect tools."
"Come to me for service every hundred miles, Baby, let me check your points, fix your overdrive."
"Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face And stars to fill my dream I am a traveller of both time and space To be where I have been To sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen. They talk of days for which they sit and wait All will be revealed"
"All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground. And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land. Tryin' to find....Tryin' to find where I've been."
"Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream. Heed the path that led me to that place, Yellow desert stream. My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon Will return again. Sure as the dust that floats b'hind you When movin' through Kashmir."
"Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear."
"Then as it was, then again it will be An' though the course may change sometimes Rivers always reach the sea Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go."
"With all the fun to have, to live the dreams we always had. Oh, the songs to sing, when we at last return again."
"Oh, to sail away, to sandy lands and other days. Oh, to touch the dream, hides inside and never seen."
"It was an April morning when they told us we should go As I turn to you, you smiled at me. How could we say no?"
"Sending off a glancing kiss, to those who claim they know. Below the streets that steam and hiss, The devil's in his hole."
"Into the sun the south the north, at last the birds have flown. The shackles of commitment fell, in pieces on the ground. Oh to ride the wind, to tread the air above the din. Oh to laugh aloud, dancing as we fought the crowd."
"If one bell should ring, In celebration for a king, So fast the heart should beat, As proud the head with heavy feet. Days went by when you and I, bathed in eternal summer's glow. As far away and distant Our mutual child did grow. Oh the sweet refrain, Soothes the soul and calms the pain. Oh Albion remains, sleeping now to rise again. Wandering & wandering, what place to rest the search? The mighty arms of Atlas, hold the heavens from the earth."
"You said I was the only, oh, oh With my lemon in your hand. Exhibition is your habit, Emotions second hand, oh, oh. Had to pull away to save me; Maybe next time around. And she said, don't you wannit? Don't you want coca coca cocaine? Hadn't planned to, could not stand to Try it, friend, yeah, na, na, yeah."
"One town love, you better take care how you use it. Try to make it last all night, and if you take your pick, Be careful how you choose it. Sometimes its hard to feel it bite. Feel it bite."
"Devil he told me to roll, Devil he told me to roll roll roll roll. How to roll the log tonight, Nobody's fault but mine."
"How come twenty four hours Baby sometimes seem to slip into days? Oh twenty-four hours Baby sometimes seem to slip into days. When a minute seems like a lifetime, Ooh baby when I feel this way. Sittin, lookin at the clock. Oh time moves so slow. I've been watchin' for the hands to move Until I just can't look no more. How come twenty four hours Baby sometimes seems to slip into days?"
"In the evening, When the day is done I'm looking for a woman; Oh, but the girl don't come. So don't let her Play you for a fool. She don't show no pity baby, No no, she don't make no rules."
"Oh it's simple, all the pain that you go through, You can turn away from fortune, fortune, 'cause that's all that's left to you. It's lonely at the bottom, man, it's dizzy at the top, But if you're standing in the middle, ain't no way you're gonna stop."
"Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining Like a star that can't wait for the night I hate to think I've been blinded baby Why can't I see you tonight?"
"Now I will stand in the rain on the corner I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown. Another ten minutes, no longer And then I'm turning around. The clock on the wall's moving slower; My heart it sinks to the ground. And the storm that I thought would blow over Clouds the light of the love that I found."
"Now my body is starting to quiver And the palms of my hands getting wet. I've got no reason to doubt you baby, It's all a terrible mess. I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless. When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey. The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless; I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah. Light of the love that I found..."
"For many hours and days that pass ever soon The tides have caused the flame to dim. At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom. Is this to end or just begin? All of my love, all of my love, All of my love to you."
"The song titles are complex, but when it comes to the album titles, they lay them out like IKEA instructions: Zeppelin I, Zeppelin II, Zeppelin III, Zeppelin IV. The fifth album, Houses of the Holy, is where they regain their insanity. Just to fuck with you, it does not contain one of their few hits that has the title in the lyrics, "Houses of the Holy". That's on Physical Graffiti."
"While Black Sabbath and Deep Purple also influenced a hard, guitar-driven sound that opened the door for the heavy metal movement, Zeppelin did it better than anybody."
"Led Zeppelin IV is not just the greatest guitar album of the 70s, but the benchmark for every guitar band ever since."
"The numbers are eye-popping. [...] Statistics are one thing, but the story must also be told with due reverence to all they accomplished musically, including pioneering the album-oriented rock rock concept and, more dramatically, forging a style that would dominate throughout the seventies."
"These are the seasons of emotion And like the winds, they rise and fall This is the wonder of devotion I seek the torch, we all must hold This is the mystery of the quotient upon us all, upon us all, a little rain must fall."