But the Bible itself also written largely of metaphors and or parables, she finds it difficult to understand. And acting on her epiphany, the "lady" starts reading the Bible ("the sign on the wall"). This is an elymology based on a story in the Bible about Daniel who reads the handwriting on the wall thatĪn elymology is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. The pastor at the Church I attend recently finished a study on the book of Daniel. This line wasn't too tough for me to decipher. "There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure, 'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings" "But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!" I chose Acts 8:20 as the Bible passage to summarize this part of the lyrics. There is a little more to it which comes in later, but for now this needs to be her first epiphany.
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Admission is a free gift from God, But the doors won't open until you get rid of that suitcase full of unGodly passions. Hence the money she is pouring up to heaven. I chose the doors ("stores") closing leaving her in darkness holding her "gold", to represent Heaven is not selling tickets for admission. What is she going to do with the material things if that is all she has in her life? This is pointing out the irony of they way she is leading her life. More clarification of her misguided sense of entitlement. "When she gets there she knows, if the stores all are closed, with a word she can get what she came for" "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.įor the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.īut thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." (Verse 11 is added here, but comes more into play further into the song.) I chose 1 Timothy 6:9 -10 as the Bible passage to summarize this part of the lyrics. Unrealized by the "lady" in her misguided sense of entitlement.
I used an image of a golden serpent in the video not specifically to represent the love of gold and or wealth (The root of all evil) But in my research of the meaning to these lyrics, I concluded that "gold" in this case, represents the seven deadly sins, (lust, greed gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, pride). The 12th century French theologian Alain de Lille wrote "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold". There's a suggestion in this opening line that the "lady" is misguided, because all that glitters is NOT gold. "There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold.
From there the next clip is a "lady" climbing a stairway made of stacked chairs, the only real significance with this clip, is that if you look closely, she is climbing the wrong stairway and losing the path behind her. The video begins with a clip of the Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven thumbnail I created from a clip I put in the video that represents the verse "In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings, sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.". And so, here is my interpretation of Stairway To Heaven, I hope you enjoy it. It normally takes me 4-5 days max to create a classic rock ballad video, but a lot of research went into this monster and took nearly 2 months to complete. So it will require a bit of thinking outside the box. Also, I found it virtually impossible to convey this song visually without creating it as, what I call, a wide awake dream. On the other hand, it's a pretty powerful interpretation, and should be interesting regardless what religion you are. I interpreted this song with a Christian point of view, so this video may not work for you if you are not a Christian. And this song is written almost entirely metaphorically. When reading any kind of literature that contains metaphors, EVERYONE is going to interpret it differently. Again it just depends on where you are at spiritually as to how you respond and or interpret anything.
is responded to spiritually, to some degree or another. Even if you don't consider yourself spiritual, everything you see, touch, hear, smell, taste, feel, etc. Where you are spiritually, will determine how you interpret anything in life. And each and every one of them would be absolutely correct. If you ask a million people to give their interpretation of Led Zeppelins' Stairway to Heaven, without collaboration, you will get a million different interpretations.
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