[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I don't know about themes, but Led Zepplin's Kashmire was a song I searched out for years with utter persistance back in my days before politics. Listening to Kashmire makes me think about the sands of history. The loss of a once-great civilization. The foolish quest for petty, fleeting glory. I feel wisdom in that song.

As for Buying a Stairway to Heavan, it makes people think about Heavan. It makes people wonder about some lady going to make a salvation purchase at a church as though it were a discount store. I stresses the importance of that purchase, and taunts those who throw money at it rather than their souls.

[Dane]

As for Buying a Stairway to Heavan, it makes people think about Heavan. It makes people wonder about some lady going to make a salvation purchase at a church as though it were a discount store. I stresses the importance of that purchase, and taunts those who throw money at it rather than their souls.

I was always amazed at that stanza of "Stairway to Heaven" that basically mentions looking to the "west" for satisfaction and/or salvation, given the circumstances of the times.

In 1971 when the song was released, the West basically meant the US and Western Europe, although by today's standards the "west" is basically the US alone.

I am talking in geo-politcal terms, not religious ones, although the lack of religion in the former USSR and "eastern" bloc countries I beleive is an important undercurrent of the song.