All My Love

Shit, I know I'm going to catch flack for this:

It's not about his son. People don't have to make a choice about loving a dead child and loving their spouse. If that's what the song is about then it's saying he has no more love for the child, only love for his wife. He would be saying his child is some inconsequential feather. Unlikely.

This song is about someone who strayed from his marriage. That is so obvious. "Fall out of love", "cloak of delight" make it clear that this person was involved in passing affairs.

Why does everyone avoid this obvious meaning even though every line points to a deep remorse over a sexual affair? It's because Robert is also singing about a "he". "He is a feather in the wind". The affair was with a "he", wasn't it? It wasn't a deep affair. Just a passing fancy, like a feather that blew along by chance, not design. The singer is letting his wife know that she is a permanent love, the one thread that has held everything together.

No one to see that Robert Plant is kind of gayish or bi or whatever. Even though it's so obvious. I was so disappointed when I saw concert photos/footage of him because he is just so flamboyantly feminine and flaming. Like a flower child Liberace. Not that it's bad that he's gay. I'm gay. But I really wanted Robert Plant to be totally straight. or at least a butch kind of gay. But people will still insist, "No, he's married, blah blah blah." I've known LOTS of gay guys that were married. People just don't WANT robert Plant to be gay because they love his singing and idolized him as a teen and he validated their stoner masculinity, and if it turns he's gay, what does that mean? What does it mean that you idolized him so much?

Looking more closely at the lyrics, I would even say that his sexuality goes more toward the gay side. "His is the force that lies within". This is saying that there's some deep essence that the boyfriend stirs up within Robert. "All the warmth we can find" for the wife sounds kind of platonic, huh? I think I'd rather stir up the "force" within someone than be the warm fire.

BTW, most of the time Robert Plants lyrics were probably so silly and cartoonish and poor because he really couldn't sing about what he was thinking. This was one song that seemed a little real and not happening in Viking hobbit fairy land.

See "Candy Store Rock" for his take on giving head. You'll like it.