Ten Years Gone Lyrics

Lyric discussion by WYWH 

Cover art for Ten Years Gone lyrics by Led Zeppelin

I'm 18 and everybody in my school thinks i'm weird cus I listen to Classic Rock. I have yet to find a new band that's as good as Zeppelin, and they are only my 4th favorite band (Kansas, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, in that order).

After Kashmir, my fav zep song, 2,3, and 4 are very hard to pick. Any zep fan who doesn't have stairway in their top five is not a tru zep fan. But Ten Years Gone and Fool in the Rain are so awesome as well. I couldn't even begin to try to put them in order.

Anyway, I have read recently on Wikipedia that the song is about a woman who told RP that it was either "her or the music". He sees her ten years later, and he wonders if she had ever thought about him. It appears to me that it was the first romance for each of them("do you ever remember me baby, did it feel so good, CUS IT WAS JUST THE FIRST TIME, and you knew it would.") I can't even imagine how hard it was for him to pick. You can tell that he really loved her, or he wouldn't have written about her later (I'm sure that made his wife angry, him writing a love song about another woman.) On the other hand, when you have that desire to create art, you really can't just ignore it.

@WYWH, Boi I'm 14 and know every Zeppelin song off the top of my head.

@WYWH LOL! the song was written about Shirley Wilson! RP was dating her and Maureen at the same time! Shirley wanted RP to be with her and not go into the music business! Maureen was supportive of RP and then she became pregnant! RP went to Peter Grant and...

@WYWH ALSO RP wrote HOT DOG for Audrey Hamilton! Another woman! Not his wife! So, he writes Thank You for Maureen and all is forgiven!?