Uniknya lagu ini tidak dirilis sebagai singel, mereka malah memilih lagu "Black Dog" dan "Rock and Roll" sebagai singel di album tersebut. Salah satu lagu paling populer dari Led Zeppelin adalah lagu "Stairway to Heaven" yang masuk pada album "Led Zeppelin IV". Your stairway lies on the whispering wind? Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,ĭear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
There's still time to change the road you're on. Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run It's just a spring clean for the May queen. If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,Īnd the voices of those who stand looking.Īnd it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,Īnd a new day will dawn for those who stand long, There's a feeling I get when I look to the west, Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven. In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings, 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven. With a word she can get what she came for. When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
Tapi ternyata lagu ini juga menyiratkan tentang pemujaan terhadap setan jika diputar secara terbalik (reverse).Lirik Lagu Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Pada lirik "We are all just prisoners here of our own device” dan "You can check out at any time you like, but you can never leave" menyiratkan bahwa anggota sekte ini menjadi terkekang selayaknya tahanan dan terikat dengan sumpah sehingga tidak dapat keluar dari perkumpulan ini. Pada lirik "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the Beast” juga menyiratkan bahwa setan tersebut tidak dapat dibunuh dan memiliki kekuatan yang sangat besar. Apakah ini kebetulan atau memang disengaja bahwa di lirik lagu terdapat kata nineteen sixty nine yang berarti 1969. Menurut cerita, pada tahun 1969, hotel yang berada di California Street tersebut dialih fungsikan menjadi sebuah gereja satanik oleh seseorang yang bernama Anton LaVey. Menurut banyak orang, judul lagu ini diambil dari nama sebuah hotel yang ada di California Street, San Fransisco. They livin’ it up at the hotel californiaĪnd she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’ He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’Īnd still those voices are calling from far away, Some dance to remember, some dance to forget How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way ’this could be heaven or this could be hell’ Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair