Someone explain what Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven means?

[Presence]

Okay so I was having this debate a few days ago with some coworkers on some all time great songs. When someone said Stairway to Heaven. Which brought me back to an argument me and my wife had on why that song was good? So I asked them what the meaning or what that song talked about and niether of them really knew also niether did my wife....

So now Im asking you guys whats this song mean? My guess is that people like that song because they were always stoned when the heard it....

 

[JC]

We dissected that song in high school. We decided it was about a woman who thought she could buy her way into heaven, kinda like the title
Nothing more subtle than that, except for the wierd backwards satanic message

BTW, how could you have a handle like "Presence" and not know all about Led Zep????

 

[Presence]

Whoa...what satanic message?

 

[jonley]

I always thought that the song referred to an LSD trip; that the woman brought it and went on a trip to heaven...

All the rock back then had something to do with drugs.

Drugs mmmmm......

 

[AmazonRasta]

Like Led Zepplin I'm on the 'Stairway To Heaven',
doors open twenty-four-seven just like the '7/11'.

 

[JC]

If you can play the part "there's still time to change the road you're on" backwards, it sounds eerily like "hail...to my sweet satan" :Q

It's prolly a coinkydink, but it's creepy.....

JC

 

[TheKidd]

People like it because its a good song. Not for any symbolic reason. It was not as good as the other epic 70's anthem, Freebird, though.

 

[Brutuskend]

First time I heard that song I was about 18 in the Marines in So Cal.
It must have been about 1973.
I was out in town walking past some apts. and it was playing.

It was a GOOD song!
Oh and did I mention I was TRIPPING my brains out?

No hidden meaning in it that I know oh though.

NOW Stairway to Gilligans Island is a WHOLE other matter however!!

 

[mithrandir2001]

<< Whoa...what satanic message? >>


Ah, the innocence of youth. I can tell you are under the age of 25.

 

[Brutuskend]

Some one I knew once told me that it did have a hidden meaning.

But that same person also said that if you watch a VW hub cap while it was spinning, you could see a swastika.

Needless to say, I disreguarded EVERYTHING she said after that!

 

[Johnnie]

<< One of the most popular rock songs of the seventies begins with the lyrics, "There?s a lady who?s sure all that glitters is gold and she?s buying a stairway to heaven." The words, written by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones of the group Led Zeppelin, reflects the fashionable message of antimaterialism that pervaded much of rock music in the late sixties and seventies. The notion of dropping out of the rat race and rejecting the corporate mentality of one?s parents formed the foundation of many a rock musician?s career. Today, one often hears people refer to the entire decade of the eighties as the "me decade" as if during that period of time Americans were somehow more self- centered and money hungry than during any that came before it. >>



found from here

this is one I found.
I am a BIG fan of Zeppelin... I do not endorse this opinion..i just found it

 

[rippy]

...also note all of the LOTR references in Zep's songs. Plant was very interested in LOTR. If you look (or listen rather) closely, you will find several references. Also, some of the artwork for Zep IV has a figure that curiously looks ALOT like Gandalf....

Check it and see for yourself.

 

[Johnnie]

Cool Facts

 

[Midnight Rambler]

<< ...also note all of the LOTR references in Zep's songs. Plant was very interested in LOTR. If you look (or listen rather) closely, you will find several references. Also, some of the artwork for Zep IV has a figure that curiously looks ALOT like Gandalf.... >>

Gollum, Mordor, Misty Mts. , that's about it ...