After years of trying to figure this out, I've finally decided that it must have something to do with either a bandmate or Richard Cole's excesses with groupies and the like during the 1977 tour. "Sisters of the wayside" in line 1, i.e. the groupies waiting in hotel lobbies, halls, etc; some being picked and exploited in rock and roll fashion, at the whim of this person to whom Plant addresses. Further allusions to the "hunter's eye", faceless legions, etc, are again signs of perusing the girls at hotels. I further believe this has to do with the 1977 tour, as with the line "I heard the word; I couldn't stay...I couldn't stand it another day." The '77 tour was abruptly ended when Robert Plant received the phone call from his wife, notifying him of his son Karac's sudden death.
After years of trying to figure this out, I've finally decided that it must have something to do with either a bandmate or Richard Cole's excesses with groupies and the like during the 1977 tour. "Sisters of the wayside" in line 1, i.e. the groupies waiting in hotel lobbies, halls, etc; some being picked and exploited in rock and roll fashion, at the whim of this person to whom Plant addresses. Further allusions to the "hunter's eye", faceless legions, etc, are again signs of perusing the girls at hotels. I further believe this has to do with the 1977 tour, as with the line "I heard the word; I couldn't stay...I couldn't stand it another day." The '77 tour was abruptly ended when Robert Plant received the phone call from his wife, notifying him of his son Karac's sudden death.
@mikeydhh \r\n\r\n\r\nI think you’re onto something here. As with great lyrics like this there are multiple meanings
@mikeydhh \r\n\r\n\r\nI think you’re onto something here. As with great lyrics like this there are multiple meanings
@mikeydhh \r\n\r\n\r\nI think you’re onto something here. As with great lyrics like this there are multiple meanings
@mikeydhh \r\n\r\n\r\nI think you’re onto something here. As with great lyrics like this there are multiple meanings
@mikeydhh It's about Page's attitude/behaviour and Plant's response at the time of the album
@mikeydhh It's about Page's attitude/behaviour and Plant's response at the time of the album