Stairway to Heaven

Stairway to Heaven, for the first 5 minutes, is a very laid back, and relaxing song. It's a song that if people were on some drugs, it would make you sit and think WAY too much, because I feel that there are an awful lot of different interpretations to the song. But drugs aren't cool, so I don't know.

An element used in a heavy percentage of songs ever made, contain a lot of rhyming. My partner and I couldn't find more than 3 instances of rhyme being used in this song. Obviously songs don't have to rhyme to be great and still talked about almost 40 years later. If a person were to just sit down and read through the lyrics in the song, I don't think that there is any way that they would the a beat in their head going without listening to the song. It just seems like you would be reading through a normal poem, not one of the greatest songs ever written. There are a few examples of symbolism found in the lyrics. Take this following verse for example: "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, Don't be alarmed now, It's just a spring clean for the May Queen." I don't have an exact symbolic meaning when I read through this, but I just don't think that it would ever mean a girl cleaning and making the bushes shake. My partner and I found a couple of other verses similar to that one that can be interpreted and symbolized as different things to different people. It just depends on who's reading it, and how they read it I guess. The most vivid experience, I think, in the song is, "Your head is humming and it won't go because 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." When I read this, I see a lady in great confusion, stuck between heaven and reality. It's a weird picture in my head, and I'm sure that it's different in my partner's head, but I found this verse to give the best vivid picture/experience. This verse can go really well along with imagination also, because not everyone imagines the same things all of the time. I couldn't find any synonyms in the song.

The lyrics to this song are definitely one of a kind. It doesn't have one straight forward meaning to it, but endless interpretations and meanings. I think that it depends upon the person who is reading through it and what kind of experiences