Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin has been the most-played song in classic rock for a while now, but what exactly do the lyrics mean in this song? Let’s take a look.
Of course the main theme of the song centers around a woman who is “buying the stairway to heaven.” In other words she believes that material possessions are the most important thing in life and she continues to spend and spend with hopes that it will help solve all of her problems. She continues to chase after these possessions and continues to be greedy.
But by the end of the song Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin sings about how “if you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last, when we all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.
Combined with the preceding lyrics about “as we wind on down the road,” Plant is talking about the culmination of a spiritual journey that has resulted in the woman finding out that life is about the simple things and these things bring joy far more than any material possessions can. It’s a fairly simple message in my opinion but one that can also have several other more subtle interpretations, as well as one that is stated gracefully.
