Hard Rock Bands

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing."

"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."

"Try to tell you baby, what you tryin' to do? Tryin' to love me baby, love some other man too. Bring it on home."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Way down inside. Way down inside. Way down inside, woman, you Woman Woman, you You need it Need Love."

"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."

"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."

"Communication breakdown, it's always the same, Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"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 have to do a lot of hard work before I can get anywhere near those stages of consistent, total brilliance."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Led Zeppelin IV is not just the greatest guitar album of the 70s, but the benchmark for every guitar band ever since."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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..."