Source: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/led-zeppelin-ii-track-by-track/
Here we are at our My Idea of Songs appointment, if you missed the previous one, you can find it here!
Led Zep, I've already talked about them in one song, which moreover was not steeped in meaning, but the sounds are of excellence.
Today we will talk about a song signed Robert Plant (lyrics)/Jimmy Page (music),
intro
If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
As soon as I heard this song, I was carried away by the melody: the opening arpeggio with Page's 12-string guitar, provides a "red carpet" for Bonham's mighty drums: something majestic; all amplified by Jones' barely perceptible organ.
I wondered why such majesty in a Hard-Rock song?
In the next few seconds the answer.
The drums stop and the guitar drops, only Plant's voice and Jones's Hammond remain; in an instant I understood why it sounds so majestic.
It is about love, but love the real kind; the two verses I wrote above are unmistakable!
The lyrics of this song can be read without music that to an outsider in the Rock world might sound like a poem by Petrarch, in a modern key!
Listen after listen, this song got me more and more hooked until I played it to a girl I liked!
Below I leave you the lyrics and right after the song
Thank you
If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
When mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me
Kind woman, I give you my all
Kind woman, nothing more
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong
Together we shall go until we die
My, my, my inspiration is what you are to me
Inspiration look, see
And so today, my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles
Thanks to you it will be done
For you to me are the only one
Happiness, no more be sad
Happiness, Iām glad
If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
Mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me
What do you think of it? Comparing it to trampled under foot, it wouldn't even sound like it was written by the same group would it?
Instead they really wrote it, and it's not the only love-filled piece written by the London quartet, on this style they wrote another one, but I'll leave you hanging!
See you at the next Song!