JIMMY PAGE & ROBERT PLANT

WALKING INTO CLARKSDALE - LYRICS

 

Shining in the Light | When The World Was Young | Upon A Golden Horse

Blue Train | Please Read The Letter | Most High | Heart in your Hand

Walking Into Clarksdale | Burning Up | When I Was A Child

House Of Love | Sons Of Freedom

 

 

Shining In The Light

Big boat stealing through the darkness
Will you bring to me my love
Will you bring to me my only love

In the night of oneness
And the one light guides you home
And the keeper turns his cards alone

From this shore my memory wanders
And I dance upon the sea
Can I dance with you upon the sea

Oh, how I love your brown-eyed madness
And your beauty was exposed
How your memory's clinging to my clothes

Shining in the light
Shine, Shine, Shine, Shine

 

When The World Was Young

Oh, yes, here I am , I've been here since all time began
Oh, oh, I'm here and then
go round and round and back again

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Hey hey come look and see my footsteps
through eternity
Ride hard, strong and free,
the messenger will hold the key

Ah ah ah ah I saw him
I knew him, I touched him
When the world was young
I saw, I knew and I touched
When the world was young... x2

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

High on the hill, home of my heart
take me dancing, round and round,
Carry me still sweet home of the heart
take me dancing, round and round

I saw him, I knew him and I touched him
When the world was young...

I saw, I knew and I touched
When the world was young...

Round, round, round and round

I saw, I touched him and I knew him
When the world was young...

I saw, I touched him and I knew him
When the world was young...

Carry me still sweet home of the heart
take me dancing, round and round

When the world was young...
When the world was young...

 

Upon A Golden Horse

First there was the fire that burned,
after came the sea
Crawling through the rain and storm
for you - for me
Slowly walks the sacred fool,
countenance sublime
Shining in the light of love
Shining, Shining

Oh Shine for me
Oh Shine for me now

High upon a golden horse
out upon the sea
Moves a man with simple words
Some for you - some for me

Burn for me ah !
Burn for me Oh oh !

Out there where the wild wind blows
where the soul is free
You will be my brightest star
shining, shining

Oh Shine for me
Oh Shine for me now
Oh burn for me, burn for me
Yeah, burn for me, burn for me
Shine for me
Shine for me now

 

Blue Train

Anothert day is ending - I remember when
my wolrd is falling down
Out there the stars stop dancing
lost in my darkness now,
the rain keeps falling down

Light of my life, where have you gone ?
Love's true flame dies
without the warmth of the sun

Ah ah ah ah ah ah

Here comes a blue train rolling
Across my heart it crawls
The rain still pouring down
Another day escapes me
A little later may be
Love will roll around

Light of my life, where have you gone ?
Love's true flame dies
without the warmth your sun

I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign
I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign
now, oh now

Light of my life, where have you gone ?
Love's true flame dies
without the warmth your su

Whistle blowing, blue train rolling
Carry my heart, my soul,
Whistle blowing, blue train rolling
Carry my heart, my soul
Whistle blowing, blue train rolling
Carry my heart
I've been waiting on the corner
I've been wishing for a sign
I've been waiting on the corner
I've been wishing for a sign

Whistle blowing, blue train rolling
Carry my heart, now, oh Yeah

Hear the blue train, hear the blue train
Blue train rolling

 

Please Read The Letter

Caught Out running,
with just a little too much to hide
Maybe baby
everything's gonna work out fine
Please read the letter
I pinned it to your door
It's crazy how it all turned out
we needed so much more

Too late, too late
A fool could read the signs
Maybe Baby
You'de better check between the lines
Please read the letter, I wrote it in my sleep
With help and consultation
from the angels of the deep

Once I sttod beside the well of many words
My house was full of rings
charms and pretty birds
Please understand me, my walls came
falling down
There's nothing here that's left for you
but check with lost and found

Please read the letter that I wrote
One more song just before we go
Remember baby all the things we used to know
Please read the letter and promise you'll keep
the secrets and the memories and
cherish in the deep

Ah

Please Read the letter

 

Most High

Who guards the truth ?
Oh Lord Most High
A frightened dove in a starless sky
Mmm, so high, most high, so high

Who hides the East
Fromblind's man eye
In the land of peace where the righteous cry
Mmm, so high, most high, so high

Where are the words of the king
Who moves the stars and the sun
To the light where my spirit was born
Bring the wanderer home

While mercy sleeps
In the hearts of liars
And the olive tree is consumed by fire
Mmm, so high, most high, so high

Where are the words of the king
Who moves the stars and the sun
To the light where my spirit was born
Bring the wanderer home

Come on, come on, come on

David's seeds talks through his paper crown
And he spits hot steel
See all the kids fall down
Oh yeah, mmm, so high
most high, so high

 

Heart In Your Hand

Do you gather flower for me ?
Moving softly through the tree
With the scent against your arms
Long ago I knew your charms

As I walk through the purple hills of
soon forgotten know
That my heart was in your hand
Yes my heart was in your hand

Do your lips still call my name
Would your mouth still taste the same
There I learned the sweetest words
Oh what price, such mercy

Yes though I steal all across the years
The memory lingers on
With my heart in your hand
Oh my heart in your hand


Should I fall beside the road
Everlasting wandering soul
And the memory sublime
And my heart was there

As I walk through the purple hills of
long ago
my heart was in your hand
my heart

 

Walking Into Clarksdale

When I was born I was running as
my feet hit the ground
Before I could talk I was humming
an old railroad sound
Things didn't get much better
when by the age of five
they found me walking into Clarksdale
trying to keep my friends alive

No time for celebration - say -
There was no known cure
Seems I was born and raised
in the wrong killing floor
And my loved ones gathered round see
if the experiment had worked
I was misplaced, out of time, privileged
and worse

Oh Mama please, don't cry for me
Tears to the river - tears to be free

Now I see twelve white horse
walking in a line
Moving east across the metal
bridge on highway 49
And standing in the shadows of a
burnt out motel
The king of commerce Mississippi waited
with his hounds from hell

A shiny neon riverboat taking
income from the poor
It's floating by the levee in
an artificial pool
There's a six mile tailback
out on junction 304
A stranger at the crossroads, believe
I've seen this face before

Oh Mama please, don't cry for me
Tears to the river - tears to be free

I'm sad to be leaving
Sun going down and I really got to go now
I'm sad to be leaving
Sun going down and I really got to go now
Really got to go now
I gotta go
I've got to move
I've got to move, yeah

I'm sad to be leaving
Sun going down and I really got to go now
I'm sad to be leaving
Sun going down and I really got to go now
I'm sad to be leaving
Sun going down and I really got to go now

 

Burning Up

My mind is cracked, I stand alone
My way is dark as night
Back on the hill, the wind is moans
And big black crowds fly by

The rain fell down, it drowned my heart
It raged inside my soul
The pain that tore the skies apart
the twisted night unfolds

I'm burning up

This lovely road that I must walk
these tears that burn my eyes
In emptiness my torment roars
In my silent loveless life

I'm burning up

Oh, oh can you hear me calling
across a thousand years
Oh, oh, would you love me, as I die,
I die a thousand times

Like a volcano
I'm burning up

Like a volcano, like a volcano
Like a volcano, like a volcano...

 

When I was a Child

I was reaching for the future
Slowly floating in the blue
When I was a boy - I dreamed a dream of you

I danced upon the tree top
I drifted with the stream
When I was a child I held you in my dreams
Oh, Oh, ooh

Once I was a soldier
in my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was a boy

I was walking with a stranger
He left without a trace
When I was a boy
I slept at Heaven's gate

Once I was a soldier
in my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was a boy

Once I was a soldier
in my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was

Once I was a soldier
in my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was a boy

 

House of Love

Oh, speak to me, tell me the truth
Why don't you let me know
Oh, throw me the key, I'm locking it up
I think it's time to go

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow

Oh, talk to me, you're packing your clothes
you leave me walking the floor
Oh, feels strange to me, I'm losing control
I can't feel you anymore

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow
It hurts a little too much

Oh my crazy arms, so empty now,
so cold like dying snow
Mmm, remember me, I can't forget
You touched my very soul

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow
A little too much
It hurts a little too much

You know you hurt me girl
You know you really really do now
You know you hurt me child
you know you really really do now
But things get better baby
When I was born I was running
Yeah, running so hard
But things get much better baby
But things get so hard, so hard, so hard
Ah just keep running, keep running
Things get better baby

Oh my crazy arms, so empty now,
so cold like dying snow
Mmm, remember me, I can't forget
You touched my very soul

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow

Just a little too much
Oh a little too much
Just a little too much
It's just a little too much
Come on come on come on

 

Sons of freedom

Go fetch another nice girl to play with in the sand
The one I have right now is broke,
The one I really want has planned
To get religion, to find another way
She's at the temple and all I've got to say

I have to face it, I'm home alone
I feel quite naked, Oh so forlorn
I am united in disarray
I've no intentions, I kneel to pray

Send me a dreamboat, that I can sail away
Adrift in warm devotion, no memory
I feel no pain
To live for new beginnings
to ride the win to win the day
out on the ocean...

I can't get started, I'm at an end
She's got religion, I've lost a friend
I talk in circles, I make no sense
I get so nervous, no recompense

I have to face it, I'm home alone
I feel quite naked, Oh so forlorn
I am united in disarray
I've no intentions, I kneel to pray

Bring me the brightest star that I can wish upon
And close my eyes so very tight
pretend that you're not gone
So deep is my distraction maybe I'll disappear

I can't get started, I'm at an end
She's got religion, I've lost a friend
I talk in circles, I make no sense
I get so nervous, no recompense

I have to face it, I'm home alone
I feel quite naked, Oh so forlorn
I am united in disarray
I've no intentions, I kneel to pray

I can't get started, I'm at an end
She's got religion, I've lost a friend
I talk in circles, I make no sense
I get so nervous, no recompense

Go fetch another nice girl, another nice girl
another nice girl
another nice girl
another nice girl
another nice girl....