Can someone explain "Stairway to Heaven" to me line by line?
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There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven\nAnd when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed\nWith a word she can get what she came for\n\n\nWoe oh oh oh oh oh\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven \n\nThere's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure\nAnd you know sometimes words have two meanings\nIn the tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings\nSometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven \n\nWoe oh oh oh oh oh\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven \n\nThere's a feeling I get when I look to the west\nAnd my spirit is crying for leaving\nIn my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees\nAnd the voices of those who stand looking \n\nWoe oh oh oh oh oh\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven \n\nAnd it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune\nThen the piper will lead us to reason\nAnd a new day will dawn for those who stand long\nAnd the forest will echo with laughter \n\nAnd it makes me wonder \n\nIf there's a bustle in your hedgerow\nDon't be alarmed now\nIt's just a spring clean for the May Queen \n\nYes there are two paths you can go by\nbut in the long run\nThere's still time to change the road you're on \n\nYour head is humming and it won't go because you don't know\nThe piper's calling you to join him\nDear lady can't you hear the wind blow and did you know\nYour stairway lies on the whispering wind \n\nAnd as we wind on down the road\nOur shadows taller than our souls\nThere walks a lady we all know\nWho shines white light and wants to show\nHow everything still turns to gold\nAnd if you listen very hard\nThe tune will come to you at last\nWhen all are one and one is all\nTo be a rock and not to roll\nWoe oh oh oh oh oh\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven \n\nThere's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven\nAnd when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed\nWith a word she can get what she came for\n\n\nAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven, uh uh uh\n\n  It doesn't have to meen what it ment to them...My opinion is that it meens what you want it to.
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What gerne and music period are you talking about?\n\nIf you talking about the rock era it is stairway to heaven by led zeppelin, but there where alot of song before the rock era.  Next time be more exact.
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Some people believe that Stairway to Heaven contains the message "Oh here's to my sweet Satan," and indeed if you play it backwards that what it sounds like. \n\nThere are psychologists that believe that this is an example of what they call "Reverse Speech." They believe that the subconscious mind has the ability to speak our true thoughts by means of phonetically reversed speech. This is the inconclusive opinion of small minority of scientists, though.\n\nOther (most) psychologists, reject the idea. I agree. People will seek familiar words and hear things that aren't really there, much the same way we see faces in the clouds.\n\nSo basically it's rubbish.
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The five stairsteps:\n\nOoh-oo child, things are gonna get easier\nOoh-oo child, things'll get brighter\nOoh-oo child, things are gonna get easier\nOoh-oo child, things'll be brighter\n\nSome day, yeah\nWe'll put it together and we'll get it all done\nSome day\nWhen your head is much lighter\nSome day, yeah\nWe'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun\nSome day\nWhen the world is much brighter\n\nOoh-oo child, things are gonna be easier\nOoh-oo child, things'll be brighter\nOoh-oo child, things are gonna be easier\nOoh-oo child, things'll be brighter\n\nSome day, yeah\nWe'll put it together and we'll get it all done\nSome day\nWhen your head is much lighter\nSome day, yeah\nWe'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun\nSome day\nWhen the world is much brighter\n\nSome day, some day, some day\nWe'll get it together and we'll get it all done\nSome day\nWhen your head is much lighter\nSome day, some day, some day\nWe'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun\nSome day\nWhen the world is much brighter\n\nOoh-oo child, things are gonna get easier\nOoh-oo child, things'll be brighter\nOoh-oo child, things are gonna get easier\nOoh-oo child, things'll be brighter\n\nRight now\nYou just wait and see how things are gonna be\nRight now \n\n\nit just reminds me that at some point everything will work out just fine...
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For songs meaning/interpretation,try these links below-\n\nhttp://www.lyricinterpretations.com\nhttp://www.songmeanings.net
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I don't know if it has a moral, exactly.  If so, it might be the line "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"...  but there are a lot of themes in the song!
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In short, no, I do not think that satanic messages are embedded within Stairway to Heaven.  Backmasking, the process of playing a song backwards, usually with the intent to discover subliminal messages of a recorded medium, such as a song or movie/television dialogue, was popularized when the Beatles released the song "Rain." John Lennon later acknowledged intentionally recording an innocent backmasked message in the song. Later, radicals decided to look for satanic messages that they assumed were concealed within Rock and Roll music. Led Zepplin faced quite the assault when so many reported that "Stairway to Heaven" contained satanic references.  In fact, in 1982 a California State Assembly was held to hear the song, and they said that, when played backwards, these lyrics could be heard:\n"I sing because I live with Satan\nThe Lord turns me off-- there's no escaping it\nHere's to my sweet Satan, whose power is Satan\nHe will give you 666. I live for Satan."\nWhile the band and the label usually made no comment to the propaganda, Robert Plant later professed, "To me it's very sad, because "stairway" 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."\nMany research projects have since ensued.\n\nI found this from an online source:\n\n"In 1985, university psychologists John R. Vokey and J. Don Read conducted a study using Psalm 23 from the Bible, Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust," and various other sound passages made up for the experiment. Vokey and Read had subjects listen for phrases that they themselves could hear in a backward playing of these recordings. They then asked subjects if they could hear these same phrases, and other phrases that Vokey and Read did not hear in the recordings. Subjects were in agreement with the researchers "assignment of the passages" of the time. Vokey and Read conclude that "people do in fact" hear "intelligible phrases in streams of backward speech". They also found that "people cannot be induced to hear virtually anything in backward speech". In other words subjects heard phrases that Vokey and Read heard and told subjects were there, and did not hear phrases that Vokey and Read did not hear but said were there."\n\nThe conclusion made by Vokey and Read in the study described above was that if backmasking did indeed exist, it was ineffective. Their volunteers had trouble even noticing the backmasked phrase when the tape was played forward, were unable to judge the type of message (whether it was Christian, Satanic, or commercial) it contained, and were not led to behave in any certain way as a result of being "exposed" to the backmasked phrase. \n\nMany would agree that the power of suggestion is strong.  Furthermore, we discussed this in my psychology class and concluded that subliminal messages are generally ineffective or quite limited in their influence.  A message recorded backwards is unintelligible when the record is played forwards. It could not be understood even if it was played apart from the music. A backmasked message superimposed on a musical passage would be itself masked by the music so that it would not readily be heard.\n\nSo basically, no, i don't think there are satanic messages even though the imagination is powerful enough to suggest that there might be.  And even if there were, it wouldn't be significant to the song itself played forward.  Still pretty fascinating though!
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If you have the lyrics, please post it. I'd love to help cause I'm a huge fan. I have lots of their stuff...over 60 cd's bootlegged and all. Waiting on you.
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Stairway To Heaven all teh way dammit
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This may give you some insight...\nhttp://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1199
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"going to the chapel" for the first one but I need more details for the 2nd song
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This one is a little easier to understand, but I still don't know. Is Planet Steady a book? A song?\n\nGood luck!
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Here is one possible interpretation of this "camp-fire song."  The auto-formatting feature of this forum will not allow me to reprint your request in "fake book" style for all to see and so I, regrettably, must direct you to the web-source at:\n\nhttp://xenia.media.mit.edu/~kristin/songbook/OnAndOn/HoleAtTheBottomAtTheSea.html\n\nAll my best to you!
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I'm a big A Perfect Circle fan, those lyrics are full of symbolism.  I would pick something that you personally enjoy and have found meaning to, instead of trying to read symbolism into other's ideas (in other words, turn off yahoo answers and do your homework :)
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Its a general spiritual song about life. Throughout the song, the singer hears (what I presume to be) the voice of God telling him to carry on through hardship and high points. "I was soaring ever higher" perhaps signifies the high points in the singer's life and the following "but I flew too high" may suggest a fall from grace. "Tossed about like a ship on the ocean" suggests being out of control and at the mercy of life's hardships and "I set a course for winds of fortune" could mean the singer's picking himself up out of a down period and moving on to a brighter future. The bridge (and the ending) "Carry on, you will always remember. Carry on, nothing equals the splendor. Now your life's no longer empty. Surely heaven waits for you." suggests that life was worth living through all of the experiences since, if the singer had not 'carried on' then life would have been meaningless. \n\nThat's just my interpretation though. Its a rockin' song even if it means nothing ;-D
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I think the theme of the poem relates to the nature of the world and appreciating life.\n\n"Light takes the Tree" may refer to darkness when the sun sets (as fits with your interpretation "I am born to die"). The line about the worm climbing the stair refers to a struggle against great odds.\n\nI think the poet is saying to take your time in life and to learn how to live your life as you go.
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lets be real okay... stairway to heaven has been played at proms and weddings and other places if it were satanic do you think we'd be hearing so much about it????