Led Zeppelin

And it's whispered that soon if we all call a 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.

Led Zeppelin (1968-1980) was a British rock band that was pivotal in the development of hard rock and heavy metal, becoming one of the most popular and influential bands of all time.

Members

• Jimmy Page: guitar
• Robert Plant: lead vocals, harmonica
• John Bonham: drums
• John Paul Jones: bass guitar, keyboards, mandolin

Led Zeppelin

"Good Times Bad Times"

• "In the days of my youth/I was told what it means to be a man/Now I've reached that age/I've tried to do all those things the best I can/No matter how I try/I find my way into the same old jam"
• "Good Times, bad times, you know I've had my share/Well, my woman left home for a brown-eyed man/but I still don't seem to care"
• "I know what it means to be alone/I sure do wish I was at home/I don't care what the neighbors say/I'm gonna love you each and every day"

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"

• "Babe, baby, baby, Im gonna leave you/I said baby, you know Im gonna leave you/Ill leave you when the summertime/Leave you when the summer comes arollin'/Leave you when the summer comes along"
• "Woman, woman, I know, I know its good to have you back again/And I know that one day baby, its gonna really grow, yes it is/We gonna go walkin through the park every day/Hear what I say, every day/Baby, its really growin, you made me happy every single day/But now Ive got to go away"

"Dazed and Confused"

• "Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true/A-wanted a woman, never bargained for you/Lots of people talkin', few of them know/soul of a woman was created below"
• "Every day I work so hard, bringin' home my hard-earned pay /Try to love you, baby, but you push me away/Don't know where you're goin', only know just where you've been/Sweet little baby, I want you again"

"Your Time is Gonna Come"

• "Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do /Messin' around, every guy in town/Puttin' me down for thinkin' of someone new/Always the same, playin' your game/Drive me insane, trouble's gonna come to you/One of these days, and it won't be long/You'll look for me, but, baby, I'll be gone"

"Communication Breakdown"

• "Hey, girl, stop what you're doin'/Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin/I don't know what it is I like about you, but I like it a lot/Won't you let me hold you, now, let me feel your lovin' touch"
• "Communication breakdown, it's always the same/Havin' a nervous breakdown, a-drive me insane"
• "Hey, girl, I got somethin' I think you oughta know/Hey, babe, I wanna tell ya that I love you so/I wanna hold you in my arms, yeah/I'm never gonna let you go, 'cause I like your charm"

Led Zeppelin II

"Whole Lotta Love"

• "You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin'/I'm gonna send ya back to schoolin'/Way down inside, a-honey, you need it/I'm gonna give you my love"
• "Way down inside/ Way down inside/Way down inside, woman, you/woman/woman, you/you need it/need/Love"

"What Is and What Should Never Be"

• "And if I say to you tomorrow/Take my hand, child, come with me/It's to a castle I will take you/Where what's to be, they say will be"
• "And catch the wind, see us spin/Sail away, leave the day/Way up high in the sky/And whoa the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go/It only goes to show that you will be mine, by takin' our time"
• "So if you wake up with the sunrise/And all your dreams are still as new/And happiness is what you need so bad/Well, girl, the answer live with you, yeah"

"The Lemon Song"

• "Squeeze me, babe, 'till the juice runs down my leg/Do, squeeze, squeeze me, baby, until the juice runs down my leg/The way you squeeze my lemon-a/I'm gonna fall right outta bed"

"Heartbreaker"

• "Hey, fellas, have ya heard the news/Ya know that Annie's back in town/It won't take long, just watch and see/All the fellas lay their money down/Her style is new but the face is the same as it was so long ago/But from her eyes a different smile like of the one who knows"
• "People talkin' all around 'bout the way you left me flat/I don't care what the people say, I know where their jive is at/A-one thing I do have on my mind/If you can clarify, please do/It's the way you call me by another guy's name when I try to make love to you"

"Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)"

• "With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat/Livin', lovin', she's just a woman/Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac/Livin', lovin', she's just a woman"
• "Alimony, alimony payin' your bills/Livin', lovin', she's just a woman/When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills/Livin', lovin', she's just a woman"

"Ramble On"

• "Leaves are fallin' all around, time I was on my way/Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay/but now it's time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way/for now I smell the rain, and with it, pain/and it's headed my way/Aw, sometimes I grow so tired/but I know I've got one thing I got to do"
• "A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now/Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world, I gotta find my girl/On my way, I've been this way ten years to the day/Ramble on, gotta find the queen of all my dreams"
• "Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear/How years ago in days of old when magic filled the air/'twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, mm-I met a girl so fair/but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her/her, her, yeah, and ain't nothin' I can do, no"

"Bring It On Home"

• "Try to tell you baby, what you tryin' to do?/Tryin' to love me baby, love some other man too/Bring it on home"

Led Zeppelin III

"Immigrant Song"

• "We come from the land of the ice and snow/from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow"
• "The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands/To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming"
• "On we sweep with, with threshing oar/Our only goal will be the western shore"

"Since I've Been Loving You"

• "Working from seven to eleven every night/It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right/I've really been the best, the best of fools, I did what I could, yeah/'Cause I love you, baby, How I love you, darling, How I love you, baby/I'm in love with you, girl, little girl/But baby, Since I've Been Loving You, yeah. I'm about to lose my worried mind"
• "Do you remember mama, when I knocked upon your door?/I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah/I open my front door, I hear my back door slam/You know I must have one of them new fangled, new fangled back doors man"

"Out on the Tiles"

• "As I walk down the highway all I do is sing this song/And a train that's passin' my way helps the rhythm move along/There is no doubt about the words are clear/The voice is strong, is oh so strong"

"Bron-Y-Aur Stomp"

• "Ah caught you smiling at me, That's the way it should be/Like a leaf is to a tree, so fine/Ah all the good times we had, I sang love songs so glad/Always smiling, never sad, so fine"

Led Zeppelin IV

"Black Dog"

• "Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move/Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove/Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing/Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting/Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way/Watch your honey drip, can't keep away"
• "Take too long b'fore I found out/What people mean by down and out/Spent my money, took my car/Started tellin' her friend she' goin' be a star/I don't know, but I've been told/A Big legged woman ain't got no soul"

"Rock and Roll"

• "It's been a long time since I rock-and-rolled/It's been a long time since I did the Stroll/Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back/mm-baby, where I come from/It's been a long time, been a long time/Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time"
• "Hoh, it's been so long since we walked in the moonlight/a-making vows that just can't work right/Haw-haw, yeah, open your arms, open your arms, open your arms/Baby let my love come runinng in, a-yeah"

"The Battle of Evermore"

• "The Queen of Light took her bow and then she turned to go/The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom and walked the night alone"
• "The apples of the valley hold the seeds of happiness/The ground is rich from tender care, which they do not forget, no, no/Dance in the dark night, sing to the morning light"
• The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath/The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black (ride on)"

"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 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/and it makes me wonder/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 forest will echo with laughter"
• "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,/It's just a spring clean from 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/Ooh, it makes me wonder/Ooh, Ooh, 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't 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 is one and one is all, yeah/To be a rock and not to roll"

"Misty Mountain Hop"

• "Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby/What do you, what do you think I saw?/Crowds of people sittin' on the grass with flowers in their hair said/Hey, Boy, do you wanna score?"/And you know how it is/I really don't know what time it was, woh, oh,oh so I asked them if I could stay a while"
• "So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains /where the spirits go now/over the hills where the spirits fly"

"Four Sticks"

• "And when the owls cry in the night/Oh, Baby, Baby, when the pines begin to cry/Baby, Baby, Baby, how do you feel?/If the river runs dry, Baby, How do you feel?"

"Going to California"

• "Seems that the wrath of the Gods/Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow/I think I might be sinking/Throw me a line if I reach it in time/I'll meet you up there where the path/Runs straight and high"

"When the Levee Breaks"

• "Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan/Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home"
• "Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good/Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good/When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move"
• "All last night sat on the levee and moaned/All last night sat on the levee and moaned/Thinkin' about my baby and my happy home/Going, going to Chicago.. Going to Chicago.. Sorry but I can't take you..Going down.. going down now.. going down..."

Houses of the Holy

"The Song Remains the Same"

• "Hear my song. People won't you listen now? Sing along/You don't know what you're missing now/Any little song that you know/Everything that's small has to grow/And it has to grow!"
• "California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain/Honolulu starbright/the song remains the same"

"The Rain Song"

• "These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall/This is the wonder of devotion - I seek the torch we all must hold/This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all, upon us all a little rain must fall...It's just a little rain..."

"Over the Hills and Far Away"

• "Many have I loved, and many times been bitten/many times I've gazed along the open road"
• "Many dreams come true and some have silver linings/I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold"
• "Many is a word that only leaves you guessin'/Guessin' 'bout a thing you really ought to know/You really ought to know/I really ought to know"

"No Quarter"

• "Close the doors, put out the light/You know they won't be home tonight/The snow falls hard and don't you know/The winds of Thor are blowing cold/They're wearing steel that's bright and true/They carry news that must get through"
• "Walking side by side with death/The devil mocks their every step/The snow drives back the foot that's slow/The dogs of doom are howling more"

"The Ocean"

• "Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain/Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the brain/Got no time to pack my bag, my foots outside the door/Got a date, can't be late for the high hopes hailla ball"
• "Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar/Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more/Singing about the good things and the sun that lights the day/Used to sing on the mountains/Has the ocean lost its way"

Physical Graffiti

"In My Time of Dying"

• "Jesus, gonna make up my dyin' bed/Meet me, Jesus, meet me. Meet me in the middle of the air/If my wings should fail me, Lord/Please meet me with another pair"
• "Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn/Let me blow your horn/Oh, I never did, did no harm"
• "And I see them in the streets/And I see them in the field/And I hear them shouting under my feet/And I know it's got to be real/Oh, Lord, deliver me/All the wrong I've done /You can deliver me, Lord/I only wanted to have some fun"

"Houses of the Holy"

• "From the houses of the holy, we can watch the white doves go/From the door comes Satan's daughter, and it only goes to show/You know"
• "So the world is spinning faster/Are you dizzy when you're stoned?/Let the music be your master/Will you heed the master's call?"
• "Said there ain't no use in crying/Cause it will only, only drive you mad/Does it hurt to hear them lying? Was this the only world you had?"

"Trampled Under Foot"

• "Ooh, trouble-free transmission, helps your oils flow/Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all"
• "Dig that heavy metal underneath your hood/Baby, I can work all night, believe I got the perfect tools"
• "Come to me for service every hundred miles/Baby, let me check your points, fix your overdrive"

"Kashmir"

• "Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars fill my dreams/I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been/To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen/They talk of days for which they sit and wait, all will be revealed"
• "All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground/And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land/Tryin' to find....Tryin' to find where I've been"
• "Oh, pilot of the storm that leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream/Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream/My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again/Like the dust that lufts high in June, when moving through Kashmir"
• "Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years/With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear"

Presence

"Achilles Last Stand"

• "It was an April morning when they told us we should go/As I turn to you, you smiled at me/How could we say no?"
• "Sending off a glancing kiss, to those who claim they know/Below the streets that steam and hiss/The devil's in his hole"
• "Into the sun the south the north, at last the birds have flown/The shackles of commitment fell, In pieces on the ground/Oh to ride the wind, To tread the air above the din/Oh to laugh aloud, Dancing as we fought the crowd"
• "If one bell should ring, in celebration for a king/So fast the heart should beat, As proud the head with heavy feet/Days went by when you and I, bathed in eternal summers glow/As far away and distant/Our mutual child did grow/Oh the sweet refrain, Soothes the soul and calms the pain/Oh Albion remains, sleeping now to rise again/Wandering & wandering, What place to rest the search/The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth"

"Nobody's Fault but Mine"

• "Devil he told me to roll/Devil he told me to roll roll roll roll/How to roll the log tonight/Nobody's fault but mine"

In Through the Out Door

"In the Evening"

• "In the evening, When the day is done/I'm looking for a woman, but the girl don't come/So don't let her, Play you for a fool/She don't show no pity baby, she don't make no rules"
• "Oh it's simple, All the pain that you go through/You can turn away from fortune, fortune, Cause that's all that's left to you/It's lonely at the bottom, Man, it's dizzy at the top/But if you're standing in the middle, Ain't no way you're gonna stop"

External links

• Official site
• Achilles Last Stand: The Led Zeppelin Website
• Led-Zeppelin.com