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Casey Average |
#1 by Casey at Jul 29, 2006 at 3:48 PM EST |
| i get goosebumps everytime i hear this song, again ive heard it so many times but acatully listening to it lieing on your bed, and really listening to it, you hear things that you didnt hear, this song in particular speaks to me. its such a summer song, its a song you want to listen to when you want to reminisce on good times. this song is definently in my top 5 of led zeppelin no question | |
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travis Wanna Be |
#2 by travis bass for D-Laid Reaction at Nov 5, 2006 at 6:51 AM EST |
| That statement of picking a favorite Zeppelin song is so incredibly true. I enjoy everything of Led Zeppelin's. The first time I heard this song was in Almost Famous- awesome movie w/ great soundtrack- but I thought it was gorgeous the 1st time I heard it. The lyrics are so moving- you can almost transform any lyrics of their's into your own personal situations. That's definitely when you know that those bands are successful. I agree w/ every opinion that everybody else has voiced. | |
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Cuboctahedron Wanna Be |
#3 by Cuboctahedron at Nov 28, 2006 at 12:45 AM EST |
| I too think that xOnix was spot on with his interpretation of the song, however as always there is more than one way to look at it. Something struck me about this song, looking at the album track rather than the live DVD, perhaps Pobert Plant was writing from the point of view of one of his own childhood friends. That Plant's life has begun to take a different course from his friend's and now "I can't play with you no more", a sign of this different life is that "I can't believe what people saying, You're gonna let your hair hang down" he can't understand how he's changed. Plant's friend then has a content and 'normal' life while Plant pursues his musical career 'I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long, You're in the darker side of town.' One of the most touching lines then follows, "And when I'm out I see you walking, Why don't your eyes see me, Could it be you've found another game to play," Here Plant's friend knows they have grown apart Plant has music which seems to have replaced him. "That's The Way it ought to be" since they cannot be friends and he must move on. There then follow two accounts of encounters between Plant and his friend, there is the moving image of seeing Plant crying by the river as he see dying fish. Then he sees Plant "kissing tiny flowers" and then there is this clash of beliefs, the friend who is living a life of mundanity believes that "nothing really matters" and Plant cannot accept this. Then in the final verse there seems hope for a rekindling of their relationship, that if they "look and look again at what you see, Is that the way it ought to stay?". Here the friend wonders whether they or not they can become friends again but does not know how to talk to Plant any more since "I don't know what to say about it, When all you ears have turned away". There that all I have to say on the song, apart from that I truly love it and that I also agree there are also the socio-political elements in the song which have already been described by langdon007. | |
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Sasquatch Average |
#4 by Sasquatch Bob at Oct 7, 2007 at 9:02 PM EST |
| ur screen name is the truth | |
