Led Zeppelin: Kashmir Meaning

Kashmir Lyrics

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
With stars to fill my dream
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...

1. anonymous

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   Sep 18th 2012 !⃝

   It does seem to bring to mind Doctor Who. The traveler, "Talk and songs from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear" reminds me of "Planet of the Ood". I mean, I get Kashmir and the war, but the razed land, traveling time and space, him trying to find where he's been, it all sounds like it.
2. anonymous

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   Jul 21st 2012 !⃝

   wow a lot of you people are pretty stupid. I don't know what souls and all that crap have to do with Kashmir. It's relating a trip to Morocco to the conflict in Kashmir. Nothing more nothing less. NONE of the member of Led Zeppelin HAVE EVER been to Kashmir.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 15th 2012 !⃝

   Sorry to tell you
   But I thought Kashmir was a place in or near India, right?

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. anonymous

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   Mar 30th 2012 !⃝

   Really, I think the outro lyrics are "trying to buy, trying to buy the way I feel" but that might be too relevant, irregardless of what I have just read. Let's face it, the song is significant and my interpretation of the outro is well... insignificant, or not? At the end of the day, most of what we call "the problem" (with the world) boils down to... people "trying to buy the way they feel" or more importantly, the way they don't feel. Next we can discuss the internal combustion engine... I live in Cleveland, my great, great grandfather name was Albert. For real.
5. anonymous

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   Mar 16th 2012 !⃝

   This is a glimpse at a journey taken by one of hell's angels after being cast out of its previous incarnation, either idol or human. A wistful longing to again hold some sway on humanity, before the great and feared coming of its end. (Revelations)
6. anonymous

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   Nov 11th 2011 !⃝

   Well the song goes something like this.
   Ho that the sun fall on my face and the stars fill my dreams.
   I am a traveler of time and space to be where I have been
   In this verse it means is a being who has managed to see beyond what has been achieved and that "everything". We assume that the song is from page, as well as the writer of Stairway to Heaven was page, I think wrote the song page and give it to plant. The first line means no more than the joy of life. The second, dreams made "that the stars fill my dream," I have to go free on the path chosen. In the third line, remember that page, if you look at the mythology, he regarded himself as the reincarnation of a magician named Zozo, then "I am a traveler of time and space" refers not only to their past lives. To this point in the song the guitar has a rising tone wing suppose you see something like the voice of one is giving a message. It's very interesting musical performance of the entire song, but especially the guitar contains this as a double figuration.
   I am talking to the elders of a privileged race that this world just to see day to talk about those who sit and wait and all will be revealed.
   In this stanza ends with a descending order, and as the voice of this being that announces something.
   Well this is basically the song structure, the following stanzas for other interesting as the party that claims to have Bolado plan also contains a dual connotation of Bolar in a literal sense, or you have reached the peak in the human cosmos. Another interesting point is that on the keyboard of John Paul Jones listed a phone in the live version to symbolize something like receiving the call. Calling from another world? can be basically symbolizes the song in their sound these replicas alien entering the subconscious in the form of telepathy. To end the song page plays one of the best solos I've ever heard the sound of figuring a tornado that was conquered by the shaman in the desert that is Kashmir. Accompanied by bojan battery that interprets the steps of a tired man and the heartbeat of Frodo Baggins in search of the house and return to the dissolution of the ring of power. Accompanied by John Paul arrangements that resemble the music of these remote places the Middle East. With that I explain something that I think is one of the best songs of all time for the humanity of our times. Even giving the doubts, which will be the expectations of the creators of such brilliant work for our present?
7. anonymous

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   Aug 24th 2011 !⃝

   Plain and simple...this song is about the color of and the experience of consuming good Hashish and finding the collective consciousness and the courage to accept your personal truth within it.
8. anonymous

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   Jul 19th 2011 !⃝

   plain and simple and in the following order....
   
   first line astral projection....
   
   the rest HAARP past wars and future natural or unnatural disasters
9. anonymous

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   Jun 17th 2011 !⃝

   Just saying
   I'm Indian, and have any of you'll seen Kashmir?
   Wasteland? way off my friend.
   There's a reason he calls it his shangri-la beneath the summer moon
   Kashmir is one of THE most beautiful places in the world, and the battle you speak of happened about a 1000 miles away from it.
   Oh and by the way, there is nothing like the Rama empire. Please check your facts before interpreting something.
10. anonymous

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    Jun 13th 2011 !⃝

    No need to interpret this song just read the lost book of enki. Don't be so easily seduced and decieved.
11. anonymous

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    Apr 28th 2011 !⃝

    This song is not about the state of Kashmir
    its about a road in Morocco..
    
    The wikipedia article on the song quotes Plant as
    "The whole inspiration came from the fact that the road went on and on and on. It was a single-track road which neatly cut through the desert. Two miles to the East and West were ridges of sandrock. It basically looked like you were driving down a channel, this dilapidated road, and there was seemingly no end to it. 'Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams...' It's one of my favourites...that, 'All My Love' and 'In the Light' and two or three others really were the finest moments. But 'Kashmir' in particular. It was so positive, lyrically."
    
    The same article says "Page mentioned that at the time the song was composed, none of the band members had even been to Kashmir."
12. anonymous

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    Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

    Plant recalls his thoughts about the wastelands in Moroco.
13. anonymous

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    Apr 16th 2011 !⃝

    Firstly, this is without a doubt one of the most Powerful and THE MOST hypnotic rock song ever. I don't even like calling this a song. Its more of a musical experience.
    
    This song can have a million different explanations. And I know there are people here who've never touched dope in their life who kind of feel disappointed whenever they see a drug reference. But I will say this- I started listening to Zeppelin long back. And even then I was blown away by Kashmir. I started expanding my mind by synthetic means only recently(or natural, as I've only smoked weed yet, and intend to keep it to that). Few nights ago, I was high and I was watching the live video of this song. And it was quite an experience, which basically reaffirmed my faith that this song is stoner to the core. The intensity is just way too much. I was nearly in tears towards the end. And then the drumming changes (yes, it does. for those who haven't noticed, watch the live version) and that has a soothing effect.
    But thats just the musical aspect of it. Lyrically, the song is as deep as they come. "I've been Flying.." Do I really have to quote anything else? And its Led fucking Zeppelin. Plant himself admitted once that when the band tried LSD for the first time is when they wrote this song.
    
    "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"
    He says that he wants the time to pass by and indulge in a never ending high. But since they were new to acid then, there was a slight element of fear. Thus, he wants to glide along the "straits of fear".
14. anonymous

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    Feb 24th 2011 !⃝

    This song is about finding who you are...
15. anonymous

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    Jan 13th 2011 !⃝

    the first guy started out good, then was just ridiculous.i think it is about the end of the world, but none of this 5000 year old nuclear war crap. I get this from the line"all I see turns to brown." this isn't about the landscape because it "turns to brown", not "is brown".To me , it's about how the religous spirituals will try to be peaceful, though the world is destroyed by he war mongerers.

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