Friday, June 17, 2022

"The Rover" - Led Zeppelin

Help! I have this wonderful - if massively underrated - track from Led Zeppelin colonising my head.

How will I ever liberate myself?

Do I even want to?

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Lyrics

I've been to London, seen seven wonders I know to trip is just to fall

I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it

I always knew what it was for

There can be no denying, that the wind'll shake 'em down

And the flat world's flying, and there's a new plague on the land


Traversed the planet, when heaven sent me

I saw the kings who rule them all

Still by the firelight and purple moonlight I hear the rested rivers call

And the wind is crying, from a love that won't grow cold

My lover, she is lying, on the dark side of the globe


You got me rocking when I ought to be a-rolling

Darling, tell me, darling, which way to go

You keep me rocking, baby, then you keep me stolen

Won't you tell me, darling, which way to go, that's right


Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry, and I would dearly like to know

I've all this wonder, of earthly plunder, will it leave us anything to show

And our time is flying, see the candle burning low

Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old


If we could just, if we could just, if we could just

If we could just, if we could just join hands

That's all it takes, that's all it takes

That's all it takes, that's all it takes.

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Lyrics (1972) seem more relevant than ever...