Stairway to Heaven

 

 

 

Stairway to Heaven
What does this song mean to you I wonder? I know what it means to me and it has meant different things at different times in my life since 1974, when I was fourteen. Wow fourteen, getting to be a real theme lately if you are paying attention. At first it was just a cool song with a haunting melody. When I was sixteen it was a song that played at my cousin’s funeral who had just died in a car accident right before he turned 21. For a long time after that it was a song to cry to. Sometimes unfortunately for those I partied with in my teenage years.

Then it was a song that while it always reminded me of that time it wasn’t so sad anymore, it evoked good memories and a degree of gratitude for them. Nostalgia I suppose.

More recently, just this year, I lost an old friend that I had met in yep, 1974. His name is John; I say is because I feel he is still around, like all energy, and like my cousin Keith.

Music is an interesting thing in my life and it certainly became ever more interesting after John crossed over. I had been waking up for awhile hearing certain songs in my head after dreams that sometimes I remembered and sometimes I didn’t. Sometimes woke up thinking in a Scottish accent but that’s another story for another time.

I have a boom box in my bathroom and turn the radio on when I take a shower, helps me relax. So here I am last February, John has just passed and I have been to his memorial, for months I have been building a play list that was becoming more and more meaningful on my journey, it was kind of a build up to this day, I was hearing in things in songs I had never paid attention to before.

So I turn on the radio, I’m in the shower and Stairway to Heaven starts to play and I cry for the first time in a long time to that song. And then it happens, four or five songs in a row, most that I have not heard in a long time, some I don’t remember ever hearing, and with the exception of the first I have heard none of them on this radio station that I listen to all the time ever before. And every single one of them as clearly as sonic boom, clearly John. I have never experienced anything quite like it before. I was shaking by the time I got out of that shower. And then there it was gratitude, a smile, a laugh, a WOW and a Holy Shit as well, and I smile every time I think about it.

This morning here is this song again and I heard it again with new ears, it is a song of hope, a song of journey, a song of gratitude and a song of love. That is what it is to me. And all I can say to that is thank you my old friend John, Keith, Led Zeppelin and Wow, Far Out!

What do you think? Does this song speak to you? Let me know what you think….

Peace
Stacy

And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

 

 

 

Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin – 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.

Theres 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
Theres a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

 

 

 

Theres 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 standing 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 theres a bustle in your hedgerow
Don’t be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Theres still time to change the road you’re on.
And it makes me wonder.

 

 

 

Your head is humming and it wont go
In case you don’t know,
The pipers 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.