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. mikel

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   Nov 21st 2010 !⃝

   I don't like to come up with my own interpretations. I read wiki and find out what the artists actually meant when they wrote it. The truth is better than fiction. My one interpretation is this... It's one of the greatest rock anthems ever written, by one of the greatest rock bands ever.
   When the song was written the band had never been to Kahmir. The lyrics to the song—originally called "Driving to Kashmir"—were written by Plant in 1973 immediately after Led Zeppelin's 1973 US Tour, in an area he called "the waste lands" of Southern Morocco, while driving from Goulimine to Tantan in the Sahara Desert.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 17th 2010 !⃝

   i'm sure a good part of it is Crowley (the wanderer of the wastelands) influenced. all of the lyrics alegorically refer to a spiritual journey.
3. anonymous

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   Sep 25th 2010 !⃝

   The nuclear war was fought and there are several other things that people from this time do not know, correctly the songs says that " all will be revealed" very soon my friends...and your ignorance will not be an excuse....
   This songs is more than just an acid trip..it talks about Ancient aliens, special the major one and the wasted land is this earth after the sun burns the hell out of us in the near future....more to come...
4. anonymous

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   Aug 26th 2010 !⃝

   Though drug use was heavier due to "Expermentalism" This song basically refers to the beauty and culture of Morocco. For musicians constantly traveling and playing venues all around the world it takes its toll on the body and mind, Taking a break and finding beauty of the "simplier" things in life Such as "T' sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen" Heed the path that led me to that place "Yellow desert stream
   My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
   Will return again
   Sure as the dust that floats b'hind you
   When movin' through Kashmir" In this world full of war, hate, crime, raceism, ect to go to a place that can bring inner peace to oneself is seldom seen these days. If more people would take time out of their busy lives to focus on what is around them there would be less negitivity.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 21st 2010 !⃝

   "Father of the four winds fill my sails across the sea of years"
   Aeolus or otherwise known as Astraeus, is the Greek god of the winds, and a son of Poseidon. The gods gave him dominion over the winds,(the four winds) which he kept in vast caves on the mythical island of Aeolia. Thus he was the regent of the Winds, viceroy of the gods. The arrival of these Winds was heralded by the rising of certain constellations.His name means Destroyer of earth or Earth Destroyer
6. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2010 !⃝

   It's obviously about the groups trip to kashmir india (all members of led zepllin at the time were satanists) an they went to figure out more about the satanic people of Kashmir

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

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   Jul 24th 2010 !⃝

   Led bunches are high like the dust and feel heavenly as if they are above kashmir. They are confused about the meaning of life, the purpose of their presence in world,time and space, and wish to learn from the sages of ancient civilization (probably hindu sages from Indus valley civilization). The brown could be brownsugar and the eyes puff and burn red when high on all sorts of drugs. The barren burnt land is ppls purposeless uninteresting tired lives we all live. .......
   get high and listen, you will understand the whole song. otherwise don't bother to listen no high, you r shame to its precious words!!
   -sl
8. anonymous

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   Feb 2nd 2010 !⃝

   My interpretation is so different than anything I have read already. I feel that it is about that part of ourselves, our souls if you will, that is, always has been and always will be. We are not consciously aware of this state of being, but it exits in collective psyches.
9. anonymous

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   Jan 12th 2010 !⃝

   " "This wasted land" is so because of a nuclear war fought there 5000 years ago " are you high or somthing??? it is much more likely to be about a trip to morocco that whatever the hell your on about... certainly sounds like they wrote it whilst high :)
10. angelinasluv

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    Aug 24th 2009 !⃝

    not all songs back in the day were all about the "trip".
    many things that were created then people did drugs but even back in freud's day they did drugs so it isnt always an issue.
    it is part drug is part political and nuclear.
    it is also about religion. if you understood the religions and thier history as well, you could undertsnad this song better.
    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
    Ohh. well having faith and nothing else and getting past your fears.. being above influence and inspiring others...
11. anonymous

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    Dec 18th 2008 !⃝

    Ok... Here's the deal: I think this song may have something to do with an acid trip or whatever drug in Morrocco.... But I think the only part that even remotely comes from that is the first part of the first verse: "Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams..." All the way thru, "I've been flyin'..." That's GOTTA be a trip or somethin'... I mean it IS Ld Zeppelinfor goodness sake...
    
    But that's it. No more drug meaning after that, maybe some later, but it's sparse and insignifigant, if even there at all.
    
    NOW: The REST of the meaning:
    
    Kashmir, as already covered by my fellow interpretors, is a small chunk of land between India and Pakistan. They've been fighting over it for a long, LONG time...
    
    Now, lets look at the rest of the lyrics:
    
    "All I see, turns to brown"
    I think here re really is just simply talking about exactly how barren Kashmir is.
    
    "Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace"
    I think this has to do with all the wars and bloody battles over this ne peice of land,
    
    "My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon"
    Shangri-La was the original name for Camp David, the presidential retreat.
    Plant is saying that Perhaps the reason for all the fighting is because the two nations see this area as a retreat, both physical and spiritual.
    
    I know this interp. Is kinda incomplete, but its already been coveresd so well. Thought i'd throw my 2 cents in. Great song and great job on the interps!
12. anonymous

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    Jul 4th 2008 !⃝

    This song is about so much more than drugs or some trip to morroco.
    
    "a traveler of both time and space"
    "sit with elders of the gentle race"
    "They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed"
    "And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
    Trying to find, trying to find where I’ve been."
    "I’ve been flying, ain’t no denyin’, no denyin’"
    
    Kashmir is the principal point of conflict, a tiny nation in dispute between Pakistan and India.
    The history of this area, once the great Rama empire,is what made Robert Oppemheimer say the now famous words
    and I qoute from Wikipedia...As Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the demonstration, he later said that a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita came to mind:
    "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
    
    "This wasted land" is so because of a nuclear war fought there 5000 years ago.
    Recorded in thier ancient records, along with hundreds of differnt types of flying machines, both terrestial and interstellar, is a war so devasating between a "gentle race" of spiritual people and a materialistic race of "war mongers" bent on world domination that it distroyed both sides.
    Sound familar? History repeats itself to the doom of those who refuse to learn from it.
    
    Great Britain gave back this area in 1947, aprox. Half to the Muslims (Pakistan) and half to the Hindus (India)
    Kashmir is in between them both and in dispute.
    It is currently again one of the world's most likely places for nuclear war to erupt...and just a small example of how religion is used as a tool in the hands of those who would bring the world again to the brink of annihilation.
13. anonymous

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    Jun 7th 2008 !⃝

    "Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denyin'
    I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'"
    
    Plant is talking about tripping lsd on a trip to Morocco and how when he gets back he wants to take his girl there.
14. anonymous

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    Dec 5th 2007 !⃝

    This is agreeably about Morocco but it was said by plant that the trip enlightened him, and he was fascinated by not just all the sand but the clarity of everything, all in all Robert Plant was fascinated by Morocco and loved the trip enough to be inspired for a song
15. kris_zeppelin

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    Nov 22nd 2006 !⃝

    Plant said that they were traveling in Morocco.. not even close to what they were writing about but sand was everywhere or something like that..

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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