Reviews for Stairway to heaven Lyrics

Look zeppelin is my life, its my soundtrack, I am just a fan who hasn't met robert,jimmy,jonesy, or bonzo. But even I can admit the song is a series of catchy metaphores designed to make you question it. And it worked quit well. I have witnessed the crew admit it was pointless, it just sounds good. This song isn't a song to be understood its a song to be felt. By the way jimmy was heavily heavily slipping in his addiction with heroine during the creation of zeppelin 4. The untitled album this song was apart of. And yes of course they were high? Its fucking zeppelin all they did was goof off, get high, fuck girls, and write beautiful music. Along with visiting the wifes while away from tour.

This song has been put under more consideration than nearly any other song of this day and age. Even the band itself is unclear about a meaning of this song. The song in itself invokes a more unnatural state of perplexity when the quest for knowledge takes the individual to new states of imagination opening new realms for the mind to dwell in and explore. Sometimes we think clearly, while sometimes are thoughts are misgiven. Some of us are right some of us are wrong, but either way this song is a philisophical gold mine... and it makes me wonder... In the bible, it is mentioned that in the center of heaven is the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The two paths any human can go by. Some people think that everything turns to gold like the lady we all know. She believes that she can simply attain this knowledge by "buying the stairway". Trying to find the simple path to heaven, and furthermore, knowledge. The other path you can go by is to rock and not to roll. To take the slow sturdy way through reason and not ramble about, not even knowing where you are going. This song through the misty language then invokes the state of mystery that everyone reading this comment is trying to uncover. What is the meaning of this song? When Robert Plant wrote down the words of this song for the first time, he opened a new stairway to a philisophical heaven to leave many people contently perplexed forever. What is the purpose of the song? "...it makes me wonder..."

I love this song, however you want to believe is fine. I think they just wrote it as they were
inspired to write the song. I think this song is
best heard on the live version from the Song Remains The Same album. It really rocks in the live format ! Check it out.

first, greatest song ever and it will always be in my heart and humming in my head.....this song reminds me of someone special but is far away now...every memory that i had is fading but with this song it is just a cloud passing the sun.....

Greatest song ever written.Greatest band in the world, Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page, picked up his guitar and started playing...and then he showed that to Robert Plant, who then sit in front of a "fireplace" together with Jimmy, and as Jimmy played the guitar Robert started to sing..."this songs represents what Led Zeppelin is..."

"Yes, there are two paths you can by..."

this song too me is kinda freaky but its very interesting in a way, i have heard this song 3 or 4 times and it made me wonder why they called it "Stairway to heaven". you really have to listen to the song and read the lyrics over again to actually get what the lyrics mean, this song has an amazing guitar solo:),i appriciate the one and only best guy friend that showed me who led zepplin was lol and that is my best dude santi:D thankss santii<3 love you -tori:D

In my opinion, I believe that stairway to heaven is one of those songs that are meant to be not understood. Cause if you really listen to the song, it really does make you wonder a lot. I heard that it was written by robert plant as he sat in front of a fireplace, not sure. And they are not satanists, cause my friend has a book on them and it says Jimmy wasn't a satanist, but his religion is called something else that i can't remember what its called.

they probably did write it when they were stoned. Whenever that person isn't sober his mind is altered and whenever that happens he looses the ability to think on his own, and is therefore influenced by familiour spirits. Why do you think these songs are so strang. The were influenced by the devil himself. In fact the Greek word for sorcery or witchcraft is parmakeia =pharmacy=drugs. ....Thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by their sorceries were all nations deceived. Romans 18:23

Great story. Great guitar solo. And in my opinion the greatest song of all time.
And to answer Anonymous' 7/24/09 question i believe that the band do worship god. I think when they say "Yes, there are two paths you can go by" they are talking about the path to heaven by following the piper (Jesus) and the other path is the path to hell (Highway to Hell by AC/DC ??). That is just my opinion but other people believe the song is based on drugs and how you want more and more?. Their was also a rumour that the band wrote the song when they were stoned ?. I don't know what to believe.

IMHO, Stairway to Heaven(StH) is a song for the ages. It's right up there with Amazing Grace and Why Me, Lord. Concluded from personal experience, these opinions are derived from a lifelong relationship with music. StH has a reflective quality about it. Hear it for the first time and you are left with a desire for more. Each experience of StH thereafter evokes memories of loss and gain, values and costs.
This assumes of course that one is in an appreciative frame of mind.
I have found that when I have a serious decision to make or a difficult question to formulate, StH is among the works I use for these private meditations. I will be forever thankful to have been among the generation to whom StH was bequeathed.

This is probbaly the freakyest songs I have ever heard. I accualy had a coppy of this song at one time. No wander I had such a messed up life. This song doesn't make any sense because it is written in a language we can't understand a language that I believe is to be called witches language. Jimmy Page bought Alister Crowly's house a former Satanist who he admired and him and Robert Plant I believe wrote that song in this house. Robert Plant said that he felt his pen being pushed when he wrote this song. And he staired back and looked at the words and couldn't beleive it. It makes mention of the piper twice if you look up Ezekiel 28:13 you will see that Satan had pipes built in him. And in the song it says the piper's calling you to join him. There is little time left on this wicked world the devil has taken control of so many people through music but Jesus is still more powerful and He can save you in this last hour. By the way you can't buy a stairway to heaven it is a free gift that Christ paid when He died for our sins. And yes the song is right when it says there are two paths you can go by but there may not be time to change the road your on.

I love this song so much, when i was a little girl my mother would sing this to me to get me to fall asleep, now that im 14 i play this song when im falling asleep although i don't have the album in front of me to read the lyrics from the backcover, i still remember them by heart. No matter how old i will get i will always remember when i was a little girl with the lovely and peacful song playing in my mind.

BTW.....I can't comment on whether the band worships God or satan...but they are Frodo worshippers (yes that's right...as in Lord of the Rings....and the Hobbit) At least Plant is and possibly Page as well, see the lyrics to "Ramble On" and several other of their medeval/earth pagan-themed songs. Amazingly complex lyricists.....sure beats the hell out of "cumsukondeezballz" and "flossin and grindin out the hood wit my shizzas an gang bangers".....I bet those rappers lose a lot of sleep at night trying to come up with "classics" like that! And we all know how much time is devoted to composing their music....NONE! cuz they use old motown and funk to cover with their so-called "lyrics"....off my soapbox now......

"John Bottom" ?????? If you're going to comment on the band/members at least please make sure you research their correct names. I believe the correct name is John Bonham. I've never seen as much incorrect spelling, grammar and illiteracy as I've seen out here. With the Page/Plant duo writing lyrics as eloquently as they do, I'm sure they would shutter and piss themselves if they saw so many devotees who don't know how to spell....

This is a classic im my books of Rock N Roll, it's on the softer side of some of the other songs from Led Zeppelin I think the guitar is absolutely beautiful coming from another guiarist. And all that santanic stuff I think it's all MAJOR BULL!!! I couldn't even understand what it said untill I went on YouTube but it didn't even sound the same. For those of you who say that the lyrics don't even make sense try being a little more open minded because there not really talking about a lady going shopping or spring cleaning in May. I think it was the parents made this stuff up so they would have a reason for the kids not to listen to rock n roll. That's my opinion personally.