Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Music Monday #5 >> Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

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There is a controversy about this song, we all love controversy don’t we? My previous song, Imagine by John Lennon also has a little controversy along with it. This is the Stairway to Heaven’s controversy:

This is rumored to contain backward satanic messages, as if Led Zeppelin sold their souls to the devil in exchange for "Stairway To Heaven." Supporting this theory is the fact that Jimmy Page bought Aleister Crowley's house in Scotland, which had become a well known Satanic church and was known as "The Toolhouse." In his books, Crowley advocated that his followers learn to read and speak backwards. - source

I am not sure where could I find a tape recorder (or whatever they used back then to play a song backwards), so all I can say is that if the song is play backward, perhaps it would sound something like this: going down the stairway of heaven (to the hell). Heck, maybe it was then they got the idea to make this controversy. I wish I was born in 1971! I would love to be the one who start off the controversy!

Click play to hear it:

Just read between the line of its lyric, then add the music as a background and you will know instantly why it's one of the greatest songs ever made.

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.
Ooh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

There’s a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There’s a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There’s a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it’s whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow
Don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it wont go
In case you don’t know,
The pipers calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How evrything 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.

And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

The song is about a woman who accumulates money, but finds out the hard way her life had no meaning and will not get her into heaven.

This is the first time I did not put any video along with my Music Monday. I just thought there is no video is good enough to describe the beauty of the song, but if you still want to watch the video, do visit HERE. Let the music player fully loaded and then just sit, sip some coffee and enjoy. Listen to the wonderful guitar sound and the lyric. If you couldn’t hear the music, try adjusting your computer volume and if it is still not working, just follow the link given above to watch the music video.

In the world where money is the dictator, it will serves a good reminder for what we had become.

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