Drew Brees is the Led Zeppelin of the NFL
 

Drew Brees is a Golden God. Okay, a Black-and-Golden God. He enters Week 9 of the NFL season with an all-time record of 72,435 passing yards. And his 502 passing touchdowns are just 38 behind all-time leader Peyton Manning. With every completion, he breaks another record. His passing is like nothing seen before—innovative, aggressive, swaggering, rousing and raucous. He drives his fans into an orgasmic ecstasy. But outside of the screaming masses, Brees leaves many others cold, believing his records lack substance and his greatness is vastly overstated.

Despite his smashing success, Brees is never lifted above his current and former contemporaries. Tom Brady is The Beatles of quarterbacks. But in the debate of greatness, The Rolling Stones is not Brees but Peyton Manning. Most people are Brady people. There are some Peyton people. Brees is not even referenced in the debate. So if quarterbacks were rock icons, Brees is Led Zeppelin.

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Well it's funny. More so because it's true

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Actually "Stairway to Heaven" may be a Satanic song. Brees is no comparison.

Disclaimer: This is my fairly dark interpretation of the song. If you accept it as its intended meaning, you may wish you hadn't heard it. You've been warned.

An Interpretation:

In the first verse, the lady represents the naive soul of a person, believing that everything will work out, believing that she can simply ask for something and receive it, and in the end she will reach heaven for being good.

In the second verse, it says that "there's a sign on the wall". I believe this represents the fact that we don't know for sure what to believe, but there is a religious authority which gives us a standard answer. However, the woman looks deeper because there may be more than one simple meaning.

"In a tree by the brook",(using more natural and mystical language than the "sign") a songbird hints that our entire perception about the world around us may be wrong. I believe the songbird represents the wondering of our mind.

Then, "Ooh, it makes me wonder"

Third Verse. Here it begins to get a little bit dark. "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving." Something is pulling at my soul to look for something else and leave what I know behind. "In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees, and the voices of those who stand looking." The trees represent the "forest" of the mind, and rings of smoke has to mean that something inside the mind is trying to communicate something, which is rather spooky. The voices looking are his thoughts in response to the "smoke rings".

"Ooh, it makes me wonder."

Fourth Verse

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If we all call the tune and follow the whisperings of our mind, "the Piper" will lead us to see things differently. The result being that we will leave way we knew behind and live in a new way of splendor and freedom.

The drums start, as does this new vision of existence.

Fifth Verse

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now.
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen."

A hedgerow is a bush, this is imagery depicting a bush shaking from the inside, but refers to wary feelings in the mind. The "May Queen" is an occultist reference. It says that while you may be alarmed at first, she is simply cleaning out your old ways of thought.

"Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on."

It's not too late. You still can go down either path if you want, but in the long run this occultist enlightenment will always be at arms' length.

Sixth Verse
"Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The Piper's calling you to join him."

You're wary and anxious about it but you won't go unless you decide to surrender yourself to it, meanwhile "The Piper" is calling you on.

"Dear Lady can you hear the wind blow, and did you know,
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind."

The Lady is the pure soul. He asks, don't you hear the whisperings of your mind, and do you know that the way to your paradise is through following those deepest thoughts and wants?

Then, a sudden strange and abrupt change in music. The solo seems to communicate its own particular message without words. This transition seems to represent the crossing over from innocence and falling into the rich, mournful truth.

Then:

And as we wind on down the road

Our Shadows taller than our soul (Our desires overcoming our potential for goodness)

There walks a Lady we all know of (We are all familiar with the intimacy of our souls)

Who shines bright light and wants to show (She is figuratively radiant from the new knowledge)

How everything still turns to gold
(In this new vision, things turn to gold, as opposed to the naive optimism earlier of believing all glittering things were gold)

And if you listen very hard (Listen!)

The truth will come to you at last (Promising the thing everybody is searching for)

When all is one and one is all

(The belief that everything is for you and for your purpose. Everything is you and you are everything. The central ideal in satanism. Robert Plant has yelled "That's what HE is!" quickly after this line in concert.)

To be a rock and not to roll. (To be the unmoveable center of your universe)


In summation, I believe it's satanic, and I find it rather disturbing, but that's what Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were into and I think that this very close to the ever-elusive intended meaning behind the song.

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Does that make Aaron Rodgers Bob Dylan?

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You really believe all that silliness, don't you?

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One of the best Rock songs of all time....I guess I have heard it a 1000 times in various mental states and by golly I still don't worship satan. Epic fail, they didn't own my soul

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Whole Lotta Love

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And the Falcons Milli Vanilli?

:banana:

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Whoa, dude! Trippy!

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:roflmao:

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Matty Ice = Vanilla Ice

'choke, choke, baby'

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Where did I put my cassette case with Zeppelin II? :smokin:

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So I guess by extension that makes Baker Mayfield Greta Van Fleet :)

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I said... maybe... :rolleyes: Check out this song meaning website...

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Most of the rituals and symbols you associate with christianity and western holiday traDitions have their Roots in pOLytheiStIc pagaN religious prAcTices predAting chriSt.

Your association of the May Queen with Satanism was especially funny. You seem to think that any non-christian religiosity is directly tied to Satanism.

So while there are some references in Stairway to Heaven to various polytheistic practices common in the British Isles, there is nothing which remotely connects any of that to Satan worship and making that connection makes you look seriously uninformed about religions in general and your own religious beliefs in particular.

:D

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They were huge into JRR Tolkien and the like. They pulled a lot of subject matter from the books and applied it to their lyrics. There is no huge deeper meaning . Some of it is personal and open to interpretation like most other art but mainly it’s just what helped sell albums.

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How about The Who? can Drew be The Who.

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that get people tragically burned at the stake...

I KNEW YOU WERE OLD............

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I never pegged Drew for a satanist, but now all those pregame chants make sense

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:flame:
MY LIFE'S EVIL IMPACT FROM THIS 1971 SONG.
It was the Summer of 1974 that this song had its biggest impact in my Life and I BECAME EVIL.

For years I thought it was Ozzy Osbourne but now I am convinced it was Led Zeppelin.

This seemed to happen to everyone I knew at the time... and this may have happened to you at sometime in your life. Now you know why.

Seems I never really understood all of the words completely and their meaning. I was innocent. The Saints sucked in those years and my soul was looking for something. It seems that I was infected by Satin that year as I turned into a pot smoking, homophobic, racist, bigot, sexist and a democrat at age 15. As I remember... I started having a lot of sex with myself too but this had be going for a few years. :rolleyes:

I must admit... It took me years to get over this but...

I fixed all of those problems a few years later when I got a steady girlfriend and I voted for Ronald Reagan. :D


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Childhood is Bliss

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I do agree that Satin in rock and roll is an evil influence. Textiles matter!

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Buy the way... that was satire.

God gives you a free will because you can't understand good until you understand bad and sometimes it's a hard lesson to learn. :shock:

Oh... and buy the way... that was satire.