Led+Zepplin+IV


 * Led Zepplin IV



=**The Battle of Evermore (Page, Plant)**=

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

Oh, dance in the dark night, sing to the morning light The Dark Lord rides in force tonight, and time will tell us all

Oh, throw down your plow and hoe, race now to my bow

Side by side we wait the might, of the darkest of them all

I hear the horses thunder down in the valley below I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow

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 apples turn to brown and black, the tyrant's face is red

Oh, war is the common cry, pick up your swords and fly The sky is filled with good and bad, mortals never know

Oh well, the night is long, the beads of time pass slow Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black (ride on)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Sing as you raise your bow, (ride on) shoot straighter than before <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">No comfort has the fire at night that lights the face so cold

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Oh, dance in the dark night, sing to the morning light <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">The magic runes are writ in gold to bring the balance back, bring it back

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">At last the sun is shining, the clouds of blue roll by <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">With flames from the dragon of darkness, the sunlight blinds his eyes

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Oh, bring it back, bring it back...

=**Stairway to Heaven (Page, Plant)**=


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And she's buying a stairway to heaven **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">With a word she can get what she came for **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Sometimes all of our thoughts are misleading **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Ooh, it makes me wonder **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Ooh, it makes me wonder **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">There's a feeling I get when I look to the west **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And my spirit is crying for leaving **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And the voices of those who stand looking **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">and it makes me wonder **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">really makes me wonder **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Then the piper will lead us to reason **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And a new day will dawn for those who stand long **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And the forest will echo with laughter **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">GUITAR SOLO **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">It's just a spring clean from the May Queen **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">There's still time to change the road you're on **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Ooh, it makes me wonder **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Ooh, Ooh, it makes me wonder **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The piper's calling you to join him **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Dear lady, can't you hear the wind blow, and did you know **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Your stairway lies on the whispering wind **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">GUITAR SOLO **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And as we wind on down the road **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Our shadows taller than our soul **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">There walks a lady we all know **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Who shines white light and wants to show **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">How everything still turns to gold **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And if you listen very hard **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The tune will come to you at last **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">When all is one and one is all, yeah **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">To be a rock and not to roll. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">And she's buying the stairway to heaven **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">Going to California (Page, Plant) **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them tell you that they'all are the same. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">The sea was red and the sky was grey,I wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">as the children of the sun began to awake. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Seems that the wrath of the Gods ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow; ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">I think I might be sinking. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Throw me a line if I reach it in time ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">I'll meet you up there where the path ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Runs straight and high. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">To find a queen without a king, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la la ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">When the Levee Breaks (Minnie, Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham) **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Don't it make you feel bad ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">When you're tryin' to find your way home, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">You don't know which way to go? ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">If you're goin' down South ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">They got no work to do, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">If you're going NORTH to Chicago. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">All last night sat on the levee and moaned, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">All last night sat on the levee and moaned, ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Thinkin' about my baby and my happy home. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Going, going to Chicago.. Going to Chicago.. Sorry but I can't take you.. ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Going down.. going down now.. going down... **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"> Syllabus **

**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">Focus Questions: Why is this album untitled? What issues or ideals is the band bringing to light through this album? **


 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">thoughts on the album as a whole **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Discussion on the songs:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The Battle of Evermore
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">What text is this song referring to? Why?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">How did the song tie into current times then?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">How would you describe this epic battle in your own words?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Stairway to Heaven
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">What is this song saying as a whole?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">What is the importance of the music vs. the lyrics?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">this song is considered the defining song of classic rock. Would you agree? Why or why not?
 * Going to California
 * Why California?
 * How do Plant's vocals affect the demeanor of the song?
 * What does this song mean to you?
 * When the Levee Breaks
 * What historical event is this song written after?
 * Why is repetition an important aspect of this song?
 * What does this song make you think about?
 * Closing: any last thoughts or comments. Reflect on how AWESOME this album is.


 * LONG LIVE LED**

NOTES:
 * Battle of Evermore
 * About Lord of the Rings
 * Great imagery/description
 * Light vs. Dark
 * Way it was recorded had certain amount of depth
 * More poetic/like a story than most song lyrics. No chorus/verses
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * So well known
 * Stanzas- they connect but not sure how exactly.
 * "Buying" the stairway. How she thinks she can get to Heaven. Thinks she can buy her way through life and death.
 * Thoughts and words with double meanings.
 * West=sunset, where it ends, yearning for the end, crying because he doesn't want to die.
 * Lost in his own thoughts. Smoke signals. Someone's looking for him. Lost in himself. God or someone is trying to find him but they can't seem to find each other.
 * Religious song?
 * "It makes me wonder"? Song has huge level of depth, makes people wonder
 * Very talented writers
 * "Will" is repeated in 4th stanza
 * "Piper" pay the pied piper? Pay for what you've done.
 * Forest. Earlier the people were looking for him here and now they're laughing
 * Not buying it with money but paying with good deeds for selfish reasons.
 * Meant to be played forward. Not backwards like some people say.
 * Theories of them being high and not actually meaning anything
 * Going to California
 * Shallow or deep?
 * Woman in first stanza same as one in the last?
 * Determined but intimidated at first.
 * Too good to be true at the end.
 * "To find a queen without a king": impossibility to find the perfect woman who isn't already taken, unrealistic expectations, too high hope, she doesn't exist
 * Disappointment in the end, much like others going to California before (gold rush)
 * Shift in the 2nd stanza? Wrath of the gods. They were disgraced. He didn't do what he was supposed to.
 * Went to California to finish the album and then they were disappointed because it wasn't working. Wasn't what they expected from not only California nor themselves.
 * When the Levee Breaks
 * Use of a harmonica is really unique. Studio song. Lots of techniques used, only played 4 times live.
 * Cover of a song written after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927: about a flood.
 * Chicago? Represents a chance and a change. Flooded out to the North. Nothing in the South.
 * Down to Chicago? "Sorry but I can't take you."
 * Hard to analyze Led Zeppelin just looking at lyrics. It's all about it all coming together as a whole piece. All about the music. Music is just as important as lyrics.
 * Stairway to Heaven is number 30 on list of top 500 songs