All My Love

he explains it all in the last verses,from the top now though,1st verse =the fire is their love im guessing maureen,2nd verse =wraped around this love is a cloak of delight 3rd=a love that has no end 4th=the days fly bye with her and the love they share 5thtides problems have caused the flame of love to dim 6th the arm is straight =the worst has come or everything is on the table ,hand to the loom =time to fix things ,make a decision,is it time to end the love or start over begin again,crying out all of my love tryin to deal with his problem ,cup is raised toast is made yet again =there have been problems before time to decide ,one voice is clear =one decision seems easier but he must give up his love this one calls for him night and day to release his love and start anew,proud aryan maureen,his will is all he has left ,the last 4 lines explain the song is to maureen she is the cloth that is torn ,hurt from the loss of there son,mine is the hand that sews time?=he feels he is the only one to heal this hurt and that he is a constant reminder of there son and there loss ,there son is the force that lies within ,together they find comfort in this loss all the warnth we can find , he is the feather he must not chase or he loses all of my love

First four lines: He is grieving his sons death, he wants to forget, but can't at the same time. His son is perhaps the feather in the wind: a memory that seems close, he chases his spirit, but he knows he is dead. Over time, the thread will weave and patch the anguish. The thread represents time itself (this is evident in the last paragraph/stanza). The glow is his undying, but perhaps faltering spirit and love. A fire in light appears weaker.

Second four lines: Time has passed, he is tired and worn. He again questions his love. His arm is straight and ready to weave. Is he really ready to move on?

Chorus: he is crying out to give his love to his son and/or wife...

The cup is raised part: Others give him will to sustain (His wife as somebody else suggested), the healing has begun.

Final lines: His wife provides the cloth that he will repair, then they can be whole again. His son is the driving force that lies within. Together, son, father and mother, must find and use all of their warmth and love (fire) as one cannot live in pain forever. His son is a feather in the wind, a distant memory...

This song could mean anything to anybody, it could be about the loss of a partner or whatever is special to you, make of what I said as you will. Please reply, I want to hear what other people think, I created an account just for this song and this is my first post.

plant wrote this for his song who died

Ok ya bite me people post pointless comments. But so far on this song only one person has actually posted about the song and you decided to critisice his grammer? and then say people shouldent post pointless comments? anyhow this is a great song a true zeppelin classic, simply a testimony to their myriad of differint sounds and styles.

This song rocks.

This is such a sad song. Robert Plant's 5 year old son, Karac, died because of a stomach virus, and he wrote this song because of that.

To Retribution : what the fuck is wrong with you? Aren't there any mods doing their job here? Anyone can feel free to post any bit of racial nonesense on here?

Anyway, I've got a pretty good explanation for the Ariane riddle (yes, it's Ariane, not Aryan, duuuuuuh !). The answer lies in the Greek mythology. Here goes : there was this half human half bull creature called the Minotaur that was emprisoned in a maze. Theseus went into the maze to kill the evil Minotaur, and that he achieved. But in order to get back out of the maze, he was helped by one of Minos's (king of Crete) daughters, Ariane. She gave him a ball of thread that theseus unrolled as he searched for the Minotaur, so that he could retrace his path backwards along the thread and thus get out of the maze. There is a french expression, the literal translation of which is 'Ariane's thread', refering to the main concept or idea that provides the solution to a complicated problem. This is therefore how I read the lines 'Proud Ariane one word, my will to sustain - For me, the cloth once more to spin', which are another example of Plant's genius writing, making allmost subliminal connections between verses. The 'Ariane thread' (i.e. the key) to finding an answer to the question rased in the beginning of the song (Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light To chase a feather in the wind?) is to sustain his will, to keep on fighting and making the effort, and it's up to him spin the cloth once again, that is to say to carry the person he's talking to (maureen?) forward, as in the last part of the song, were his is the hand that sews time. Ariane's thread --> cloth --> sewing : brilliant writing!

Well, the first lines, "Should I fall out of love...chase a feather..." To me, I thought this was talking about him being married, and then he found someone else, but it'd be hard, much like chasing a feather blowing with the wind is. Or, at least it is to me.

I used to think that this song was about Robert Plant or any of the band members for that matter, and their groupies and how they needed to choose between their true loves or just a short fling. At the beginning when he says "should i fall out of love, my fire in the light to chase a feather in the wind" that part definately made me think it was about choosing between love or groupies. But now that i hear it is about his dead son i definately dont think its about groupies anymore.

One of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs, about his son that died, as posted in pretty much all the previous messages. So sad, but a really nice song!