| Led Zeppelin – Four Sticks Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Yes dukesavant2014I quoted both, I think, let me check.. Yes, pretty much typed the actual song's line's, condensing one with a slash.. and also a couple of variable lines that I thought rhyme close enough.. The meaning stay's much the same.. The slightly different wording is merely that heard by my ears when as youngsters we would play who guessed best before reading the sleeve print.. As I posted previously, taking the meaning up higher and expanding it wider out and onto a historical trip through the socialsphere.. "baby through the roads of time so long ago".. I'll still maintain that the gifted have always been targeted by the status quo out of fear of repurcussions for their own transgressions.. and if giving you a prime contemporary example I would point you to the very devisive '17 DC EU's "Batman v Superman: DoJ" film.. where society is easily manipulated into seriously questioning and gravely mistrusting, with even Batman fearing, one the best of beings, and of course wrongfully and this playing a number on even a Supermind, "Oh baby, I've got to fly.. Got to try to get away.. I've got to get away from you babe".. here, protecting loved ones, particularly Lois and Martha in this case, but at the same time our whole race, with which he had already sided and in doing so proved it by being forced to kill the last of his own kind in "Man Of Steel". But we can keep it down to earth too if we wish, between a couple of lovers.. "crying.. her, him, both?.. he must leave.. red river most alsways just that, a name of many rivers, perhaps a destination or if metaphorically also pertaining to the later refrain, hot blooded..no other way, and soon.. owls hoot hunting.. wind through trees.. do it now while young, before the river dries".. pretty basic till we come to the latter parts which I've already metaphrased but will add that here's an atmosphere of more strife .. again, as in my initial more tangential proposal, there exist's quite a bit of ambiguity, as with all good works, leaving space for various possible scenarios to the imagination.. which is good.. everyone can be right, more or less. So, that's it and I hope it's now cooler.. and Happy New Year and may health find you and your's always |
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| Eddie Money – Baby Hold On Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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One of the greatest rythym and back beat ever.. one of the top most relaxing, hope lifting voices I've ever heard Song about? Just a regular person.. wanting to only his rightful due.. you that is.. that's all.. rich or poor, like mama knows, the fortune we seek is us together.. SO simple |
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| Led Zeppelin – Four Sticks Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Hi all. I had just the other day posted about "When The Levee Breaks" and, to sum it up, after declaring my respect and love for it, rated it as number 2 favoured track on lV, behind only "Four Sticks". So I felt it fair to scribble a few lines about this one. One contrast between the two worth noting would be the excess of H2O and then the complete lack of it, "if the river runs dry baby how would you feel?" included on the same album. True that musicians ahead of their time are misunderstood by critics and the industry as a whole but, although they do refer to these type of obstacles in many of their works, I do not believe that most preoccupy themselves at that low a level. It is merely a link in a long chain of interconnected subterfuge encountered by the truly gifted through their lifetime, with each link all the more diabolical then the former. Davinci, Michaelangelo, Galileo, most all polymaths were extremely hesitant, wary and tried to avoid appearing before royal and papal "invitations" to "explain" and "share" their discoveries. And with good reason (spending the last 10 years of your life under house arrest growing sicker?). "They can't hold the wrath of those who walk/boots that march.. baby through the roads of time so long ago" The lyrics can apply to undesirable situations on both a personal relationship level, and to a collective larger social scale. The verse that sums it up for me would be.. "Craze baby, hmm rainbows end. Hmm baby, its just a den for THOSE who hide. who hide their love in DEPTHS of life (who hide within the depths of love), and ruin dreams that WE all knew (dreams of me on you) so babe". Just as, say, those religious philosophers serving the papacy of way back then who would collectively convene and scheme rebuttals to thwart perfect logic, all the while pretending it was in the name of God and for the good of the people (hiding within the depths of love), when in fact they merely wished ruin upon anything endangering their positions.. despicable (but they got their's too, most of them had even shorter lifespans). As stated in the Levee post, the drumming on "Sticks" is incomparable but the cherry topping it off is Plant's vocal delivery in closing. Sans words, as Plant pioneered and Floyed used through Torry a couple of years later on "Gig In The Sky" (but she had to sue for cowriting credit and royalty). The deeper album cuts of this quality are signature in that, as great a guitarist as is Page, they usually lack a guitar lead or at most have one very short and simple like "Levee".. and Page knew that if the rhythm is worked to the state of perfection as it was on Levee and Four Sticks (and a few others) then the content from beginning to end draws more desire for tireless repeat.. the lead here is not required and may in fact detract from the set atmosphere. As with other faves sans lead guitar such as "No Quarter", "In the Light" (barely, sounds more of a different rhythm). "In The Evening" (yes, has a lead that starts great but gets winded, and is no comparison to the opening keys or even the rhythm). In all honesty, could one listen to songs such as "Black Dog" or "The Ocean" as frequently, where the rhythm guitar after every verse is identical throughout the whole song with perhaps a slight change in tone once or twice? In truth? I could not if it were not for Page's extended leads saving those type of songs. (hope I didn't ruffle any feathers, but my ears define my personal opinion of the type of songs in the above paragraph, and it's merely just that, my own view) So that is just about it. Thanks again for the space. Be well. |
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| Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Sorry folks, forgot to mention in the 1st post that.. "It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home" ..this part of the verse is Zeppelin's own addition, not included in the original, and I relayed it to you wishing to clarify one reason for and give added weight to, my understanding and my interpretation of the song's meaning, respectively. Sorry again and thank you for the space (great site by the way). |
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| Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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choosing an order of preferance for songs from Led's discography should have been included as the 13th and most trying of Heracles' Labours. I agree with a lot said by all.. and, naturally, vice versa. Levee is one of my very favorites and yes, due to John's execution of the drum/percussion in that milestone sound environment but, also and perhaps even a bit moreso because of Plant's Harmonica. I disagree that Levee resides at the lower half of lV's listing. I too, and moreso analogous with age, find the deeper album tracks to have crossed into the twilight zone of timelessness. The fact that these types were played so infrequently during live performances attests to the next to impossibility of their arrangement and structure. I also disagree that lV is the pinnacle of their artistry, as they themselves have cited Physical Graffiti as holding that honour, although true that a couple of rough outtakes from lV did find their way onto Physical. But back to lV, I would rank Levee as the 2nd favoured track, behind only Four Sticks. Bonham's handling of those four staves has very, very few equals but, again if not for Plant's vocals, especially his avant-garde delivery beginning enough before the end so as to act as the perfect closure, then it, and Levee, would remain confined outside the "zone" mentioned previously, along with the rest of the album (which I absolutely adore judging it upon it's other merits). This is, needless to say, merely my own opinion, just as everyone else is entitled to have their own. Plant's harmonica on Levee ranks with Jones' keys on No Quarter, Stewart's on Boogie W/Stu and the Bagpiping beginning In The Light, to name just a mere few. Song meang. Hm? True that true artist can relay multi meanings/verse and in refrain, if they wish to do so. But, I feel, a question that we may feel pressing may arise when we consider the span between the origin and this rendition. WHY now? Why ('71) now did Led desire to put their all, a superhumen effort and into this particular song? Natural disasters have been occuring relentlessly before and since '27, one may argue. They have indeed, but at an alarmingly increasing rate. You may wish to do a search of before and around and in particular 1970 and discover quite a few record setters. Could these foreward thinkers, from back then, be referring to the destruction of the planet through global thermalization? Due to the relatively few *$&%#, a handful who desire to live like kings in their various nations, while they surely but not so slowly destroy the planet through CO poisoning? There won't be a nation for them to live as king if things continue as such with no control. Perhaps Zep did know. I believe they did anyway. If it keeps on rainning the levee's going to break. If the sea level rises enough then, it's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home. Going down. Why so blue? Good God Huh? |
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