Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
Hey girl, what you doin'?
Hey girl, you'll drive me to ruin
I don't know what it is about you
But I like it a lot
Oh, why don't you let me hold you?
Let me feel your lovin' touch
Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane
Hey girl, I got something I think you wanna know
Hey girl, I wanna tell you that I love you so
I wanna hold you in my arms and feel your love tonight
Oh, I'm never gonna let you go 'cause I like your charms
Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane
Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane
Communication breakdown
Communication breakdown
Communication breakdown
I wanna feel your love all night
Communication breakdown
Communication breakdown
I'm gonna make your telephone work tonight
Communication breakdown
Hey girl, you'll drive me to ruin
I don't know what it is about you
But I like it a lot
Oh, why don't you let me hold you?
Let me feel your lovin' touch
Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane
Hey girl, I got something I think you wanna know
Hey girl, I wanna tell you that I love you so
I wanna hold you in my arms and feel your love tonight
Oh, I'm never gonna let you go 'cause I like your charms
Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane
Communication breakdown, it's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane
Communication breakdown
Communication breakdown
Communication breakdown
I wanna feel your love all night
Communication breakdown
Communication breakdown
I'm gonna make your telephone work tonight
Communication breakdown
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Communication Breakdown Lyrics as written by John Paul Jones John Bonham
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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Honour to the authors of this great hard rock song: this HIT of Led Zeppelin was written by Bonham, Page and Jones, belongs to their first LP (Led Zeppelin I) of 1969.
Up the Led!
Where can I find this song?
what the hell made thekronic420 think this was maiden?
Did Maiden do a cover of this or something?
I downloaded this and its got nothing on the original, but its pretty cool
oy rebal ace man iron maiden, just for the record, did cover this song as a b-side on one of their singles but im not sure which one. although i love maiden, i think zeppelins wud be better. why dont u get your facts straight b4 u make yourself sound like a dick
Oh, all apologies then.
this couldnt hav been 2 bad. bruce dickinson has a good voice for this.
My two favorite bands are Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden, so when I first heard that Iron Maiden did a cover of this song I was so SYKED. However when I heard it I did not like it. Bruce Dickinson is just as good as Robert Plant, but not for this kind of song. Ths solo and drumming were very sloppy. Its ust didnt work, nice try though. They just should have picked a different Zeppelin song.
This was Paul Di'Anno, Maiden's first (studio album) vocalist. Bruce joined the band only from album #3, The Number Of The Beast onwards.
Sorry, my bad. Was listening to something from Killers and meant to post this there :P<br /> Gah!
I shat bricks when I first heard about Maiden covering a Zeppelin song;like Shinichiro Watanabe remaking Vampire Hunter D...if you are into that kind of thing. Anyhow,I think Maiden's version is the better.