Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven Live (HD)

"Stairway To Heaven"

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long,
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.


And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

• The most famous rock song of all time, "Stairway To Heaven" wasn't a chart hit because it was never released as a single to the general public. Radio stations received promotional singles which quickly became collector's items.
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• On Tuesday November 13, 2007, Led Zeppelin's entire back catalogue was made available as legal digital downloads, making all of their tracks eligible for the UK singles chart. As a result, at the end of that week the original version of "Stairway To Heaven" arrived in the UK singles charts for the first time. Previously, three covers had charted: the multinational studio band Far Corporation reached #8 with their version in 1985, then reggae tribute act Dread Zeppelin crawled to #62 in 1991 and finally Rolf Harris' reworking outdid the other two, peaking at #7 in 1993.
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• Robert Plant spent much of the '70s answering questions about the lyrics he wrote for "Stairway." When asked why the song was so popular, he said it could be its "abstraction," adding, "Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way - and I wrote the lyrics."
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• The lyrics take some pretty wild turns, but the beginning of the song is about a woman who accumulates money, only to find out the hard way her life had no meaning and will not get her into heaven. This is the only part Plant would really explain, as he said it was "a woman getting everything she wanted without giving anything back."
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• Led Zeppelin started planning "Stairway" in early 1970, when they decided to create a new, epic song to replace "Dazed And Confused" as the centerpiece of their concerts. Jimmy Page would work on the song in an 8-track studio he had installed in his boathouse, trying out different sections on guitar. By April, he was telling journalists that their new song might be 15-minutes long, and described it as something that would "build towards a climax" with John Bonham's drums not coming in for some time. In October 1970, after about 18 months of near constant touring, the song took shape. Page and Plant explained that they started working on it at a 250-year-old Welsh cottage called Bron-yr-Aur, where they wrote the songs for Led Zeppelin III. Page sometimes told a story of the pair sitting by a fire at the cabin as they composed it, a tale the gives the song a mystical origin story, as there could have been spirits at play within those walls.
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• Page told a different story under oath: When he was called to the stand in 2016 as part of a plagiarism trial over this song, he said that he wrote the music on his own and first played it for his bandmates at Headley Grange in Liphook Road, Headley, Hampshire, where they recorded it using a mobile studio owned by The Rolling Stones. Plant corroborated the story in his testimony.
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• Headley Grange may not be as enchanting as Bron-yr-Aur, but the place had some character: It was a huge, old, dusty mansion with no electricity but great acoustics. Bands would go there to get some privacy and focus on songwriting, as the biggest distractions were the sheep and other wildlife.
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• Robert Plant recalled writing the lyrics in a flash of inspiration. Said Plant: "I was holding a pencil and paper, and for some reason I was in a very bad mood. Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold/And she's buying a stairway to heaven.' I just sat there and looked at the words and then I almost leapt out of my seat."
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• Plant's implication that something else was moving his pencil for him led to speculation that it was Satan who was dictating the words, and along with the backward messages and Page's Aleister Crowley connection, there was enough evidence for many listeners that the devil had some role in creating this song.
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• This is rumored to contain backward satanic messages, as if Led Zeppelin sold their souls to the devil in exchange for "Stairway To Heaven." Supporting this theory is the fact that Jimmy Page bought Aleister Crowley's house in Scotland, known as Boleskine House. In his books, Crowley advocated that his followers learn to read and speak backwards.
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• Robert Plant addressed the issue in an interview with Musician magazine: "'Stairway To Heaven' was written with every best intention, and as far as reversing tapes and putting messages on the end, that's not my idea of making music. It's really sad. the first time I heard it was early in the morning when I was living at home, and I heard it on a news program. I was absolutely drained all day. I walked around, and I couldn't actually believe, I couldn't take people seriously who could come up with sketches like that. There are a lot of people who are making money there, and if that's the way they need to do it, then do it without my lyrics. I cherish them far too much." (thanks, Rob - Easton, PA and Tolga - Naples, FL)
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• This runs 8:03, but still became one of the most-played songs on American radio, proving that people wouldn't tune out just because a song was long. It was a perfect fit for FM radio, which was a newer format challenging the established AM with better sound quality and more variety. "Stairway" fit nicely into what was called the "Album Oriented Rock" (AOR) format, and later became a staple of Classic Rock. By most measures, it is the most-played song in the history of American FM radio. It has also sold more sheet music than any other rock song - about 10,000 to 15,000 copies a year, and more than one million total.
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• Jimmy Page has a strong affinity for this song, and felt Robert Plant's lyrics were his best yet. He had him write all of Zeppelin's lyrics from then on.
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• In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine (March 13, 1975) the interviewer, Cameron Crowe, asked Jimmy Page how important "Stairway To Heaven" was to him. Page replied: "To me, I thought 'Stairway' crystallized the essence of the band. It had everything there and showed the band at its best... as a band, as a unit. Not talking about solos or anything, it had everything there. We were careful never to release it as a single. It was a milestone for us. Every musician wants to do something of lasting quality, something which will hold up for a long time and I guess we did it with 'Stairway.' Townshend probably thought that he got it with Tommy. I don't know whether I have the ability to come up with more. I have to do a lot of hard work before I can get anywhere near those stages of consistent, total brilliance."
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• This was the only song whose lyrics were printed on the album's inner sleeve.
• Many novice guitarists try to learn this song, and most end up messing it up. In the movie Wayne's World, it is banned in the guitar shop where Wayne (Mike Myers) starts playing it. If you saw the movie in theaters, you heard Wayne play the first few notes of the song before being scolded and pointed to a sign that says "NO Stairway To Heaven" (Wayne: "No Stairway. Denied."). Because of legal issues - apparently even a few notes of "Stairway To Heaven" have to be cleared, and good luck with that - the video and TV releases of the movie were changed so Wayne plays something incomprehensible. This novice guitar Stairway cliché later showed up on an episode of South Park when the character Towelie tries to play the song in a talent show and screws it up.
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• Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones decided not to use a bass on this because it sounded like a folk song. Instead, he added a string section, keyboards and flutes. He also played wooden recorders that were used on the intro. Bonham's drums do not come in until 4:18.
• Robert Plant is a great admirer of all things mystic, the old English legends and lore and the writings of the Celts. He was immersed in the books Magic Arts in Celtic Britain by Lewis Spence and The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Tolkien inspiration can be heard in the phrase, "In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees," which could be a reference to the smoke rings blown by the wizard Gandalf. There is also a correlation between the lady in the song and the character from the book, Lady Galadriel, the Queen of Elves who lives in the golden forest of Lothlorien. In the book, all that glittered around her was in fact gold, as the leaves of the trees in the forest of Lothlorien were golden. (thanks, Shannon - Tacoma, WA)
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• Dolly Parton covered this on her 2002 album Halos and Horns, and Robert Plant said he liked her version. Other artists to cover this include U2, Jimmy Castor, Frank Zappa, The Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band, Sisters of Mercy, Nancy Wilson, Zakk Wylde, Elkie Brooks, Pardon Me Boys, White Flag, Jana, Great White, Stanley Jordan, Far Corporation, Dixie Power Trio, Justin Hayward, Leningrad Cowboys, Dread Zeppelin, Tiny Tim, piano virtuoso Richard Abel, and Monte Montgomery. Neil Sedaka hadan unrelated Top 10 hit with the same title in 1960. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)
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• Many critics trashed this song when it came out: Lester Bangs described it as "a thicket of misbegotten mush, and the British music magazine Sounds said it induced "first boredom and then catatonia."
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• Led Zeppelin played this for the first time in Belfast on March 5, 1971 - Northern Ireland was a war zone at the time and there was rioting in nearby streets. John Paul Jones said in an audio documentary that when they played it, the audience was not that impressed. They wanted to hear something they knew - like "Whole Lotta Love."
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• The song got a better reception when the band started the US leg of their tour. In an excerpt from Led Zeppelin; The Definitive Biography by Ritchie Yorke, Jimmy Page said of playing the song at an August, 1971 show at the Los Angeles Forum: "I'm not saying the whole audience gave us a standing ovation - but there was this sizable standing ovation there. And I thought, 'This is incredible because no one's heard this number yet. This is the first time hearing it!' It obviously touched them, so I knew there was something with that one." (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)
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• Jimmy Page considers this a masterpiece, but Robert Plant does not share his fondness for the song. Plant has referred to it as a "wedding song" and insists that his favorite Led Zeppelin song is "Kashmir." After the band broke up, Plant refused to sing it except on rare occasions, including Live Aid.
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• This was the last song the remaining members of Led Zeppelin performed when they reunited for Live Aid in 1985. Bob Geldof organized the event, and did his best to get many famous bands to play even if they had broken up. Unlike The Who, Geldof had an easy time convincing Plant, Page, and Jones to play the show. They played the Philadelphia stage with Tony Thompson and Phil Collins sitting in on drums.
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• The acoustic, fingerpicking intro is very similar to the song "Taurus" from the band Spirit, who toured with Led Zeppelin when they first played the US. "Taurus" is a guitar instrumental written by the group's guitarist, Randy California, and included on their debut album in 1968. It was part of the band's set and Jimmy Page admitted that he owned the album.

• Randy California never took any legal action against Led Zeppelin or sought compensation from them. A mercurial man who drowned in 1997 at age 45, he was described by his bandmate Mark Andes as "kind of a pathetic, tortured genius."
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• The "Stairway" connection is just a small piece of the Spirit story. California was guitar prodigy, and when he was 15 he joined Jimi Hendrix in the group Jimmy James And The Blue Flames. Three months later, Hendrix went to England. He wanted to take California with him, but Randy's age made it impossible.
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• Randy played with future Steely Dan founder Walter Becker in the Long Island band Tangerine Puppets, then moved to Los Angeles where he formed Spirit with three friends and his step-father, Ed Cassidy, who played drums. They got some gigs at the Whisky a Go Go, and Lou Adler signed them to his label, Ode Records. Their first album was a modest success, but mustered just one minor hit: "Mechanical World." Written by band members Mark Andes and Jay Ferguson, it stalled at #123 US. California set out to write a hit for their second album, The Family That Plays Together (1969) and came up with "I Got A Line On You," which made #25.
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• It would be their biggest hit: the band declined an invitation to Woodstock and fractured in 1972, with California's already volatile mental health ravaged by drug use. The band reunited from time to time, but never got their due. By the time of California's death, few remembered "Taurus" and its connection to "Stairway To Heaven," but in 1999 Songfacts went online and the discussion was revived.
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• In 2002, a former music journalist named Michael Skidmore came into control of California's estate, and 2014 he began proceedings against Led Zeppelin. In 2016, Jimmy Page testified in the case and said that the first time he heard of the controversy when a few years earlier when his son-in-law told him that a debate had been brewing online. Page insisted he had never heard "Taurus" before, and that it was "totally alien" to him.
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• The jury didn't buy the argument that Page never heard "Taurus," but ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin, deciding that the chord progression in "Taurus" was common to many other songs dating back decades, and therefore, in the public domain. Here's atimeline of the case.
• Pat Boone released an unlikely cover on his album In a In a Metal Mood. Boone wanted to see how it would turn out as a jazz waltz, and it opened and closed the song with soft flute playing. In a subtle reference to his Christian faith, Boone changed the line "All in one is all and all" to "Three in one is all and all" - a reference to the Christian Trinity (the Father, Son, Holy Spirit).
• Another notable cover was by an Australian performer called Rolf Harris, who used a wobbleboard (piece of quite floppy wood, held at both sides, arched slightly and wobbled so the arch would continually invert) and changed the line "And it makes me wonder" to "Does it make you wonder." (thanks, Iain - Edinburgh, Scotland)
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• In the '90s, Australian TV host Andrew Denton had a show on which various artists were asked to perform their version of this song. Their versions were released on an album called The Money or the Gun: Stairways to Heaven. Artists performing it included Australian Doors Show, The Beatnix, Kate Ceberano and the Ministry of Fun, Robyne Dunn, Etcetera Theatre Company, The Fargone Beauties, Sandra Hahn and Michael Turkic, Rolf Harris, Pardon Me Boys, Neil Pepper, The Rock Lobsters, Leonard Teale, Toys Went Berserk, Vegimite Reggae, The Whipper Snappers, and John Paul Young. In reply to Rolf Harris' version, Page and Plant performed his song "Sun Arise" at the end of another Denton TV show. (thanks, Graham - Australia)
• In January 1990, this song was added to the Muzak playlist in a solo harp version. Unlike the original, the Muzak version, arranged and recorded to provide an "uplifting, productive atmosphere" and "counteract the worker-fatigue curve in the office environment," did not do so well, as even this sanitized version drew a lot of attention to the song, thus undermining the intention of the Muzak programming. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
• The band performed this at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in 1988 with Jason Bonham sitting in on drums for his late father. Plant did not want to play it, but was convinced at the last minute. It was sloppy and Plant forgot some of the words. This was not the case when Jason joined them again in 2007 for a benefit show to raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun education fund. They performed this song and 15 others, earning rave reviews from fans and critics.
• Zeppelin's longest ever performance of this song was their last gig in Berlin in 1980. It clocked in around 15 minutes long. (thanks, Marshall - Gallatin, TN)
• Gordon Roy of Wishaw, Scotland had all of the lyrics to this song tattooed on his back. He did it as a tribute to a friend who died in a car accident.
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• In the late '90s, the radio trade magazine Monday Morning Replay reported that "Stairway" was still played 4,203 times a year by the 67 largest AOR (album-oriented rock) radio stations in the US. ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, refuses to release exact figures on how many times it has been played since its release, but figure that on each AOR station in America, the song was played five times a day during its first three months of existence; twice a day for the next nine months; once a day for the next four years; and two to three times a week for the next 15 years. There are roughly 600 AOR and Classic Rock stations in the US, which means that "Stairway" has been broadcast a minimum of 2,874 times. At 8 minutes per spin, roughly 23 million minutes - almost 44 years - have been devoted to the song. So far.
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• On January 23, 1991, under the direction of owner and general manager John Sebastian, the radio station KLSK (104.1 FM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico played this song over and over for 24 hours, confounding listeners who weren't used to hearing Led Zeppelin on the station. The song played over 200 times, with many listeners tuning in to find out when it would end. It turned out to be publicity stunt, as the station was switching to a Classic Rock format.
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• Explaining his guitar setup for the solo, Jimmy Page told Guitar Player magazine in 1977: "I was using the Supro amp for the first album, and I still use it. The 'Stairway to Heaven' solo was done when I pulled out the Telecaster, which I hadn't used for a long time, plugged it into the Supro, and away it went again. That's a different sound entirely from the rest of the first album. It was a good, versatile setup."
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• The Foo Fighters did a mock cover of this song, and their version was to say that nobody should try to cover the song because they will screw it up. Dave Grohl intentionally carried the intro on way too long, asked his drummer and audience for lyrics, and when it came time for the guitar solo, he sang Jimmy Page's part. This was done purely as a joke, and to tell people not to cover the song, as Grohl is a huge Zeppelin fan, and lists Zeppelin's John Bonham as a major influence. (thanks, Bert - Pueblo, NM)
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• Rolling Stone magazine asked Jimmy Page how much of the guitar solo was composed before he recorded it. He replied: "It wasn't structured at all [laughs]. I had a start. I knew where and how I was going to begin. And I just did it. There was an amplifier [in the studio] that I was trying out. It sounded good, so I thought, "OK, take a deep breath, and play." I did three takes and chose one of them. They were all different. The solo sounds constructed - and it is, sort of, but purely of the moment. For me, a solo is something where you just fly, but within the context of the song."
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• Mary J. Blige recorded this in 2010 backed by Travis Barker, Randy Jackson, Steve Vai and Orianthi. Blige told MTV: "Once you get lost in the rock-and-roll moment of it, all you can do is scream to the top of your lungs or go as low as you need to go. It's not a head thing - it's a spirit thing." She added: "I am a Led Zeppelin fan. I've listened to their music since I was a child, and it's always moved me, especially 'Stairway To Heaven.' I make songs my own by going deep inside myself and translating them to 'what would Mary do.'" The song is included as a bonus track on the UK re-issue of her album Stronger With Each Tear and made available for download. Blige performed the song on the April 21, 2010 episode of American Idol. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
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• In solo work or with other groups, Jimmy Page would not let anyone but Robert Plant sing this, but he did play it as an instrumental on occasion.
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• The ending of this song is distinctive in that is closes out with just Robert Plant's voice. According to Jimmy Page, he wrote a guitar part to end the song, but decided to leave it off since the vocal at the end had such an impact.
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• Jimmy Page often called "In The Light" from Physical Graffiti a follow-up to this song.
• Regarding the composition of the track, Jimmy Page told Rolling Stone: "I was trying things at home, shunting this piece up with that piece. I had the idea of the verses, the link into the solo and the last part. It was this idea of something that would keep building and building."
• Meaning of the words of stairway to Heaven ( Take 1)
  This song is very inspired / in-spirit. Many writers, oh hell, many humans are inspired with wisdom that they themselves sometimes don't even know the significance of, at least not when first inspired.
  
  
  Are the words satanic? I'd say not. Are they occult? Could very well be. But most people wrongly associate the occult with satanism.
  
  
  The meaning of the occult has been lost to most people, as has the word origin / the true vibration of many words. Human language, along with many other part of human life had gotten corrupted over time. Some would say occult means "that which is hidden." Well, it did indeed become hidden because there were power hungry people who did indeed want to use the power of the occult but don't want others to do so. So, they wanted to hide it away for themselves and they would literally kill anyone else who knew of it, so that was plenty enough reason for everyone else to hide it away.
  
  
  But the origin of the word "occult" means the "cult / culture" of "oc / ak". Occult means the culture of light.
  
  
  And even Life itself tends to reserve the disclosure of occult meaning only to those who truly want it. They may not even think of the culture of light as going by that word "occult" but if people truly desire and intend to get to the truth of life and this world and beyond, then such will over time be revealed to them.
  
  
  But if someone does not truly desire to know and understand, then not even the truth knocking at their door or provided on a silver platter will get through to them.
  
  
  We are in a world of duality and this song flat says it itself - two paths to take - so either you are moving towards the light or away from it. One way to think of light is knowingness and not necessarily in a logical sort of way (although not denying that either) but more in an intuitive knowingness. And the complement would be darkness, which could be interpreted as ignorance, which ultimately results in disempowerment.
  
  
  So, with this as a back drop. I'll interpret these song lyrics.
  
  
  There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
  And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
  When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
  With a word she can get what she came for.
  Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
  
  
  In this context "gold" refers to materialism. This lady is trying to buy her way into heaven, basically trying to buy her happiness and joy through material things and lots of them.
  
  
  There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
  'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
  
  
  When it comes right down to it, these lines are as much for the listener of the song as for the character in the song. They tell you that that is exactly what is going on here - same words having two meanings. And the lady of the song knows this too - is the "sign" she is seeing telling her one thing or something completely different, is she interpreting the "signs", the subtle divine guidance, correctly?
  
  
  In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
  Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
  
  
  In this world of illusion and darkness / ignorance / unknowingness, it's easy to have doubt and apprehension.
  
  
  There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
  And my spirit is crying for leaving.
  
  
  The west is associated with endings or death, "my spirit" is crying to leave this world. This is not the spirit's natural world but is an illusion for the sake of experience.
  
  
  In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
  And the voices of those who stand looking.
  
  
  I'll say I'm not sure of exactly how to interpret these lines but I'll go ahead and say that the divine has many ways to send you messages and I've often joked that for those who refuse to "see" the signs, who deny the guidance, I'll say, "How many more ways can the message get sent to you? What is left? Smoke signals?"
  
  
  And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,
  Then the piper will lead us to reason.
  
  
  If we ask for guidance, we will get it. "Ask and ye shall receive."
  
  
  And a new day will dawn for those who stand long,
  And the forests will echo with laughter.
  
  
  A new day, a new creation will indeed manifest for those who commit themselves to its creation, then there will indeed be much joyous laughter.
  
  
  If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
  It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
  
  
  If there is a stirring beneath the surface, inside you, it's a chance to clean and purify yourself. Flow with it.
  
  
  Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
  There's still time to change the road you're on.
  
  
  In this world of duality, a free-will realm, you can move to the light or away from the light, but even if you've chosen darkness, albeit perhaps unconsciously, you can always choose again and turn back to the light.
  
  
  Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
  The piper's calling you to join him,
  
  
  When you catch the "spark", when you get some clue of the divine message, you just can't shake it, it does indeed make your head hum and the divine is calling you to follow its guidance.
  
  
  Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
  Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?
  
  
  The divine guidance is often subtle. Are you tuned in to catch that subtle guidance?
  
  
  And as we wind on down the road
  Our shadows taller than our soul.
  
  
  Sometimes as we move through our earthly lives, we move further into darkness / ignorance / disempowerment and further away from our conscious awareness of our souls.
  
  
  There walks a lady we all know
  Who shines white light and wants to show
  How everything still turns to gold.
  
  
  But someone / something / the divine / life itself wants to shine the light for you and show you... gold! And in this case, here is a word already used in this song, which now has a different meaning, just like the lyrics told you some words have. Early in the lyrics it meant money and materialism, but now it's more to do with alchemy, with turning lead into gold, which is a metaphor for changing a mundane level human into a god, which is their true essence. And "Hu" was a god and hence "hu-man" means "god-man".
  
  
  And if you listen very hard
  The tune will come to you at last.
  
  
  If you learn to recognize the divine's subtle guidance you will indeed hear it.
  
  
  When all are one and one is all
  
  
  When you again realize your own personal wholeness and unity, then also see your unity with all else, but this order is significant - unify all parts of your own individuation first - recognize and reconnect with your soul and your creative powers - then you can truly unify with other beings.
  
  
  To be a rock and not to roll.
  
  
  Be committed, firm, diligent in knowing the truth, in knowing your true divine and powerful self, be a rock...and in not getting caught back up into the world of illusion and distraction that wants to keep you from being your powerful and divine self, do not roll back into ignorance and disempowerment and separation from the divine / spirit / your soul.
  
  
  And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
  
  
  And that is the true way to heaven.
  
  
  Meaning of the Words to Stairway to Heaven ( Take 2)
  Well, first off, the song is very real, both forwards and backwards. That does not make this song a satanically inspired song though. Perhaps the opposite is true. Let's look at the deeper meanings which the artists are depicting to uncover the realities in the song. We notice is speaks of a lady or nation, dressed in Jewels whom has glorified herself in her wealth. She has glorified herself so much that she thinks she can buy her way into heaven with her wealth. Only to find out that heaven on earth or the millennial reign of the Messiah will not allow her to purchase her way out, all the stores are closed for her. Her wealth means nothing how. With all her magicians and soothsayers, she attempts to read the signs on the wall through ancient Babylonian druidic rituals, but they fail her as she can not interpret the dual meanings of the lyrics in the music and mysteries of the signs. However a song bird sings of all our collective thoughts. As they look to the West, towards America, Mystery, Babylon, the lady dressed in Jewels, our spirits cry to leave us, for dread of the horror she brings on the earth. In the thoughts of each other we have see rings of smoke in the trees representing the voices of those whom stand on watch. The whispers come out to call us all in tune, and harmony. The someday for those who stand long, the piper will lead us all to reason. When that day arrives, and the woman is not allowed to buy her way into heaven on earth, the forest will echo with our laughter. If there is a bustle in your hedgerow or normal routine on earth, don't be alarmed. It is just a spring clean for the May queen whom comes to purify the earth of all the Satanic forces. Yes, there are always two paths you can go by, but there is time still to change from the bad one you may be on. Yes people, your head is humming and you won't go, because you don't know the master piper is calling you to join him. Dear lady of wealth can hear the wind blow, as she carries you every which way but right. You don't know, because your stairway lies on the whispering wind, which does not go to heaven. You can not buy your way in. The truth has now come to us, now that we are all one. We know who the lady is now, collectively, America in the West. So the message here is do not follow the Babylonian Harlot, America, whom is steep Babylonian rituals trying to read the signs on the wall as ancient druids did.
  
  
  When we play it backwards we see the other half of the story. There is an entire poem enclosed in the song from beginning to end also, very incredible. These men must be masters of some ancient elder group which rarely appears on earth. We see hints of it in Kashmir as we read these lyrics they can make us understand. Oh let the sun beat down upon my face
  With stars to fill my dream.
  I am a traveler of both time and space
  To be where I have been.
  
  
  To sit with elders of a gentle race
  This world has seldom seen.
  They talk of days for which they sit and wait
  When all will be revealed.
  
  
  All is revealed when the wealthy Lady whom has glorified herself in her wealth finds she can not buy her way into the eternal kingdom on earth, soon to come. The forest will echo with laughter as those whom have stood long have waited for their time to come...Backwards we can look at the famous part for times sake. If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
  Don't be alarmed now
  It's just a spring clean
  For the May queen
  
  
  Yes, there are two paths you can go by
  But in the long run
  There's still time to change
  The road you're on
  
  
  Backwards this reads, So, Here's to my sweet Satan. There was a little child born who made me sad who's power is faith. He'll (Satan not the child) will give to those with him six, six, six. There was a little toolshed where he made us, (combined with the child) suffer, sad, sad Satan, stating mocking Satan. Apparently, the child is a child and Satan was a man when this suffering in the tool shed took place. The tool shed is a depiction of them being forged by the master's hand that allowed Satan to bring suffering to them and the child. Most likely as the apokolypcia rolls in, Satan will make many believe the child or younger is Satan and that he is the Christ. The child will not claim God Status by will merely be a prophet. If one reads the entire backward story, this is pretty much the message conveyed. The beginning of the backward song has this in it, which is the end of the forward song, Plaaaay backwards,
  Hear why its sung here, oppositioner..
  Allll on track, all arriving
  They all sing, and they are one.
  Shall I loathe you now, parishoner?
  Oh hear Him, Christian within me.
  It stirs my sin; the river,
  Oh, she swells with our lousiness.
  All my life will end for him?
  We're all out of signs,
  I know I'm sorta shocked
  To hear The Lord,
  My God now will save me!
  Oh I will n'er be saved,
  Because I live with Satan..
  One wish today;
  That you'll all pray for
  Three who will make it here late.
  Pray now and you'll see..
  The 'Lord' turned me on,
  But, oh, I was the shaggy fool..
  Clothed in agony,
  Lost at a height.
  There's no escaping it,
  Nor his woes..
  So here's to my Sweet Satan
  
  
  The end of the backward song or poem ends as such,
  
  
  He, who say the lords
  Thoth have our laws,
  Maat must be superb. Mass is ended..
  Over there,
  He who should learn thee.
  Any moot that serves by my sworn music,
  I wish it with snow be shushed,
  All for my mass's sake.
  Hear why its sung,
  here, oppositioner, Ohh..
  He who should show
  May make his show worthy,
  To look, for us, odd.. sickly,
  There's one chance - take his show.
  Hold thy head,
  Hear why its sung here. oppositioner.
  Who owns this earth built below?
  Oh sweet Israel...
  
  
  The poem backwards is much wordier than forwads. This is only about half of the poem backwards. It seems to carry a rather Godly meaning, hidden by men whom you would least expect to possess it. These men are masters of an elder race which seldom appears on earth. They are a collective group of chosen people whom have the same experiences, desires, pursuits, and preferences. They are in unison and synchronicity. In the end, they will be victorious over Satan and six, six, six as they have stood long to be where they will be. They are gentle elders of all time and space whom seldom appear. In their songs, they talk of days for which they sit and wait, when all will be revealed. That is scary stuff; I do not think I would want to mess with these guys or their God or prophet of whom they speak, whom Satan apposes as well as he apposes Israel.