Tag: Art

An Interpretation to Stairway to Heaven

The words to Led Zeppelin’s famous hit Stairway ti Heaven are oftentimes considered to be dark and of a difficult meaning interpreation, so I thought I’d share mine.

So… These are the words:

I. 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.

II. There’s 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, there’s a songbird who sings:
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
You know.

III. There’s 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 stand looking
That’s you.

IV. 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.
Remember laughter?

(Oh yeah, yeah, yeah…)

V. And it makes me wonder.
If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run,
There’s still time to change the road you’re on.

VI. Your head is humming and it won’t go, in case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him.
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

VII. 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.

VIII. And if you listen very hard,
The tune will come to you at last.
When all is one and one is all, that’s what it is
To be a rock and not to roll, oh yeah.

IX. And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.

We’ll go verse-a-verse.

Verse I Introduces the Lady. This would represent an Utopian person who doesn’t get things right (“If the stores are all closed”), but still is that way.

Verse II Tells us more about that person. She would be frail, due to being scared of the double-way of some words (“Sometimes words have two meanings”).

Verse III. Tells us more about the so-called Utopian cosmovision of our Lady.

Verse IV Is about this Utopia. /If all of us… Then something great happens./

Verse V Introduces a distinction between Good and Evil (“There’s two paths you can go by”).

Verse VI Is complex. It talks, in a way, to the Lady, telling her there’s no need for her to be that way.

Verse VII Introduces these so-called “normal” people who encounter our Lady.

Verse VIII Is a key. “To be a rock and not to roll” is a way to express, the capability to be Evil, along with the chance to choose not to be it.

Verse IX Closes.

Thanks for reading.

TS | On Aesthetics, Theology and Art

By Wassily Kandinsky

Thesis:

The ability to emit Aesthetical Judgements understood as Communion with God and learnable through Art.

Aesthetical Judgements allow the perciever to discriminate elements within Reality on a level other than mere abstraction.

Aesthetics have traditionally been reduced to taste. Understood, through taste.

I say everything is touch.

On an outmost elemental Physical Sphere, everything is touch.

Which is another Aesthetical Judgement.

I dare to state this ability is born within communion with God. A relationship.

If this intimidates you too much, just think of what Plato, who believed in intuition as a way to access Knowledge, would have called Beauty, oder Good.

Now only one aspect is open.

Open wide, in fact; How do you teach this?

Through speech, through acts, through expressing our souls, the true Beauty within the heart of each of us…

Which I define, as Art.