Lyrics of Stariway To Heaven - ?
Allan Telford
>
>In article <mgshyam.6...@pc.jaring.my>, mgs...@pc.jaring.my
>says...
>>
>>Recently one of my friends ( a non- led zepp fan) asked me to explain
>what the
>>lyrics of Stariway To Heaven meant, and I found that I couldn't. I
>don't
>>think the lyrics refer to anything in particlar , they're just great
>lyrics!
>>Of course there is the reference to the "piper" and all that. But
still,
>I
>>have never really been able to fathom what exactly the song is
talking
>about.
>>Anybody got any ideas?
>
>It talks about Armageddon, the Second Coming, when we will be judged,
and
>eating too much cheese.
>
I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
jr...@ix.netcom.com
>Recently one of my friends ( a non- led zepp fan) asked me to explain what the
>lyrics of Stariway To Heaven meant, and I found that I couldn't. I don't
>think the lyrics refer to anything in particlar , they're just great lyrics!
>Of course there is the reference to the "piper" and all that. But still, I
>have never really been able to fathom what exactly the song is talking about.
>Anybody got any ideas?
Well, I'd say the beginning is about a spoiled woman who thinks that
she can get anything with money or with sweet talk:
"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's buying
a stairway to Heaven"
When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed, with a
word she can get what she came for"
I think in her presumptuousness, she believes what she wants to
believe even though the truth is there for her to see:
"There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure, sometimes all
of our thoughts are misgiven"
"In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings, "Sometimes all
of our thoughts are misgiven"
I think they are saying that you choose what you get, and no amount of
money or sweet-talking at the end will change the path you choose:
"There's still time to choose the road you're on"
I think when he " looks to the west" and sees the "rings of smoke
through the trees, and the voices of those who stand looking":
he is seeing possible futures and those who are wondering what he will
choose
Perhaps the piper is temptation calling him as the Pied Piper's call
irresistable draws the rats.
And the end:
"There stands a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold,
And if you listen very hard,
The tune will come to you at last,
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll..."
I think this is a different lady from the one at the beginning (if it
is the same, she is changed and wiser, and thus different). She knows
that, in the words of Tolkien, "all that is gold does not glitter".
And in time you will understand.
You must stand true and not be swayed to disbelieve.
Only my interpretation...
--
Joy Roan
{For in and out, above, about, below,
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.}
--Edward Fitzgerald
Came out by the same Door wherein I went.
LedHed
>
>I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
>just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
>all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
>represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
>with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
Ah yes! Give me that old time religion! Now there's a ceremony I could
have thrown myself into, heart and soul. ;-)>
LedHed
Linda Richman
like Jimmy is, there's still time to change the road you're on.
Robert has always said it is a song of hope.
ba...@qnet.com (t. baird) wrote:
>In article <mgshyam.6...@pc.jaring.my>, mgs...@pc.jaring.my
>says...
>>
>>Recently one of my friends ( a non- led zepp fan) asked me to explain
>what the
>>lyrics of Stariway To Heaven meant, and I found that I couldn't. I
>don't
>>think the lyrics refer to anything in particlar , they're just great
>lyrics!
>>Of course there is the reference to the "piper" and all that. But still,
>I
>>have never really been able to fathom what exactly the song is talking
>about.
>>Anybody got any ideas?
>It talks about Armageddon, the Second Coming, when we will be judged, and
>eating too much cheese.
Douglas Brown
>
> I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
> just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
> all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
> represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
> with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
Actually the lyric is:
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
The explanation I have heard (which fits closer) is that this is a
reference to menstruation. Bustle is a verb meaning a flowing or
effluence. The May Queen was associated with virgins and young women.
Who can say. It's a nice song, whatever the hell it means.
D
JEFF STRAWMAN
In article <mgshyam.6...@pc.jaring.my>, mgs...@pc.jaring.my (Macphisto) writes:
> Recently one of my friends ( a non- led zepp fan) asked me to explain what the
> lyrics of Stariway To Heaven meant, and I found that I couldn't. I don't
> think the lyrics refer to anything in particlar , they're just great lyrics!
> Of course there is the reference to the "piper" and all that. But still, I
> have never really been able to fathom what exactly the song is talking about.
> Anybody got any ideas?
in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now. It's just a sprinkling for the
May-queen.
Okay, hedgerow is a British slang term for a girl's pubic hair, May-queen is an
old British word for a girl becoming a woman. Sprinkling you should understand
what that means. So Stairway to Heaven is about a girl having her period and
coming of age.
-Jeff
David McAuliff
In article <4qugd2$1...@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>,
na...@ix.netcom.com(Allan Telford ) wrote:
>I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
>just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
>all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
>represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
>with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
A quick correction; that's "spring clean for the may queen," not
"sprinkling for the may queen."
--
Warning: Opinions stated herein may contain undetected deviations from the facts.
Dana Drury
Plant explained the phrase "bustle.." to be the dawning of spring. This
was on Australian TV last year.
Jeff Ellis
Allan Telford <na...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
: I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
: just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
: all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
: represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
: with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
This explanation is about as fact-laden as the current spate of political
TV ads, and just about as hurtful and insulting. I suggest you crack
open a book on the subject, Allan, before you post such gossipy drivel.
Morningstar
Paul Sandars
In article <mgshyam.6...@pc.jaring.my>, mgs...@pc.jaring.my (Macphisto) says:
>
>Recently one of my friends ( a non- led zepp fan) asked me to explain what the
>lyrics of Stariway To Heaven meant, and I found that I couldn't. I don't
>think the lyrics refer to anything in particlar , they're just great lyrics!
>Of course there is the reference to the "piper" and all that. But still, I
>have never really been able to fathom what exactly the song is talking about.
>Anybody got any ideas?
I've always thought that it was a song about sexual awakening-sex
being the Heaven, the awakening part the Stairway: discovering sex.
Zeppelin singing about sex....well, I never.
I was introduced to the Zepp at the age of 17 by a collegemate; who
could interpret and explain large chunks of the lyric of "Stairway.."
He thought that part of it...the first two lines, for instance,
may relate to something else...heroin was his idea.
He did, however, translate a few lines to 'prove' the sex point. Years
later, a British rock mag translated them the same way. Urban myth?
Well, the answer makes sense...Here goes...
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow"
Hedgerow= Female pubic hair.
Bustle= literally defined in dictionaries as"movement"
"Don't be alarmed now, it's just a springclean for the May Queen"
Taken with the line above, the May Queen is any girl reaching puberty-
the spring of her life, when changes happen. The Springclean is her
first menstruation, the bustle in the hedgerow the action of this
going through her body to the 'hedgerow'.The girl is ready to enjoy
the ecstasies of sex.."the Stairway"...leading to orgasm.."Heaven"
As this was talking about both 'women's matters' and the sexual
capabilities of the underaged, is it any wonder that it had to be
couched in such riddlesome lyrics.
What do you all think?
Paul Sandars.
Dr. Richard Knight
Please do not confuse Druidism with old English folklore! Maypole
cermonies are now christianized forms of pagan (non-christian and non
druid) fertility rites.
In article <4r0idp$l...@nw101.infi.net>, LedHed <hann...@nr.infi.net> wrote:
> na...@ix.netcom.com(Allan Telford ) wrote:
> >
> >I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
> >just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
> >all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
> >represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
> >with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
>
>
Linda Richman
Is there one right answer?
Other groups exchange ideas without insulting each other.
Jeff Ellis <sirl...@primenet.com> wrote:
>Allan Telford <na...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>: I think "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now it's
>: just a sprinkling for the may queen" refers to a druid tradition where
>: all the unmarried teenagers would dance around a may pole (It
>: represented a penis) and then all run off and have sex in the bushes
>: with the first member of the opposte sex that they could find.
>This explanation is about as fact-laden as the current spate of political
RICPATNOR
I don't know but I've been told...
I'll leave the ingenius " Little girl into Woman" discussion to others
more qualified... Really, it never occured to me...Spring Cleaning
MayQueens.
My take on this and MANY other songs by Zep, are that they are rich with
Tolkien references.
Stairway seems to jump from Galadriels plight( seeking forgiveness for
refusing the Call , and where her choices are fewer and seemingly
hopeless), to Frodo's release from the torment of bearing the One Ring.
Perhaps half the lyrics are direct paraphrases from theLord of the Rings.
Presumptous of me to Ramble On like this, being a newbie to this group
and all, so just one more tidbit: "All that glitters is not gold" (or was
it " all that is gold does not glitter ?) was refering to Aragorn (
Strider ) and the prophesy concerning his fate.
Ricpatnor from SoCal