Houses Of The Holy Lyrics
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The Song Remains The Same
(Page/Plant)

I had a dream. Crazy dream.
Anything I wanted to know, any place I needed to go

Hear my song. People won't you listen now? Sing along.
You don't know what you're missing now.
Any little song that you know
Everything that's small has to grow.
And it has to grow!

California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain
Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same.

Sing out Hare Hare, dance the Hoochie Koo.
City lights are oh so bright,
as we go sliding... sliding... sliding through.



The Rain Song
(Page/Plant)

This is the springtime of my loving
The second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing
So little warmth I've felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing
I watched the fire that grew so low.

It is the summer of my smiles
Flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes.
It is to you I give this tune.
Ain't so hard to recognize
These things are clear to all from time to time.

Talk Talk....
I've felt the coldness of my winter,
I never thought it would ever go.
I cursed the gloom that set upon us,
but I know that I love you so

These are the seasons of emotion,
and like the winds they rise and fall.
This is the wonder of devotion.
I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient.
Upon us all a little rain must fall.




Over The Hills And Far Away
(Page/Plant)

Hey lady--you got the love I need
Maybe more than enough.
Oh Darling, walk a while with me
You've got so much.

Many have I loved,
many times been bitten,
many times I've gazed along the open road.

Many times I've lied,
many times I've listened.
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

Many dreams come true
and some have silver linings
I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
Many many men can't see the open road.

Many is a word that only leaves you guessing -
Guessing 'bout a thing you really ought to know, ooh!
You really ought to know.




The Crunge
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)

I wanna tell you bout my good thing
I ain't disclosing no names but,
he sure is a good friend, and
I ain't gonna tell you where he comes from, no!
If I tell you you wont come again! Hey!
I ain't gonna tell you nothin but I do will, but I know, yeah!
I should do, but I know now. Let me tell you bout my girl:
Open up a newspaper and what do I see? Ahh, ah
See my girl, ah, looking at me
Ooh, And when she walks, Ooh, lemme tell ya:
She walks and when she talks, she talks and
When she looks at me in the eye,
She's my baby, lord I wanna make her mine
Tell me baby what you want me to do!
You want me to love you, love some other man too?
Ain't gonna call me Mr. pitiful, no!
I don't need no respect from nobody...

I ain't gonna tell you nothing. I ain't gonna no more, no!
She's my baby let me tell you that I love her so,
And she's the woman I really wanna love
And let me tell you more, oooh!
She's my baby, she lives next door.
She's the one a woman the one a woman that I know.
I ain't gonna... tell you one thing that you really ought to know, ooh!
She's my lover baby, and I love her so, and
She's the one that really makes me whirl and twirl!
And she's the kind of lover that makes me fill the whole world, and
She's the one who really makes me jump and shout, ooh!
She's the kind of girl--I know what it's all about!
Take it take it

Excuse me
Oh will you excuse me
I'm just trying to find the bridge... Has anybody seen the bridge?

(Have you seen the bridge?)
I ain't seen the bridge!

(Where's that confounded bridge?) 



Dancing Days
(Page/Plant)

Dancing days are here again,
as the summer evenings grow
I got my flower, I got my power,
I got a woman who knows.

   (CHORUS)
I said it's alright.
You know it's alright,
I guess it's all in my heart
You'll be my only, my one and only.
Is that the way it should start?


Crazy ways are evident, in the way that you're wear your clothes
Sippin' booze is precedent as the evening starts to glow.

   CHORUS

I told your mamma I'd get you home,
but I didn't tell her I had no car
I saw a lion.  He was standing alone,
with a tadpole in a jar.

   CHORUS

Dancing days are here again,
as the summer evening grows
You are my flower, you are my power
You are my woman who knows.

   CHORUS




D'yer Mak'er
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go, oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go, oh oh oh oh oh
Baby, please don't go.

Ay ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
Baby, please don't go.

    (CHORUS)
When I read the letter you wrote,
it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it brought me,
it made me sad sad sad.
But I still love you so,
I can't let you go
I love you- ooh baby I love you.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh
Every move I make oh oh oh oh oh
Baby please don't go.

Ay ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
Darling please don't go.

   CHORUS

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh
(Baby please don't go)




No Quarter
(Jones/Page/Plant)

Close the door, put out the light.
You know they won't be home tonight.
The snow falls hard and don't you know?
The winds of Thor are blowing cold.
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
They carry news that must get through.

They choose the path where no-one goes.

They hold no quarter.

Walking side by side with death,
the devil mocks their every step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow,
the dogs of doom are howling more.
They carry news that must get through,
to build a dream for me and you .

They choose the path where no one goes.

They hold no quarter. They ask no quarter.
The pain, the pain without quarter.
They ask no quarter.
The dogs of doom are howling more!




The Ocean
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)

("We've done four already but now we're steady
and then they went: One, two, three, four")

Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain
Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the grain
Ain't no time to pack my bag, my foots outside the door
Got a date, I can't be late, for the high hopes haila ball.

Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar
Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more, more!
Singing about good things, and the sun that lights the day
I used to sing on the mountains
Has the ocean lost it's way?

Sitting round singing songs, 'til the night turns into day
Used to sing on the mountains, but the mountains washed away
Now I'm singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart
She is only three years old and it's a real fine way to start.


                            
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