![]() You’re incapable of love, and I’m not going to worry about it. Love for you is a matter of no deposit and no return To remind me that you’re not the lovin kind Singing hard like this is only possible with a great band, and we took the feel from my original recording with Norbert Putnam and his Area Code 615 players, and Glen Spreen’s horn arrangement. I’m thinking up love charms cause I can’t say a word I’m so in love I’m resorting to magic – even in airports – to keep you close to me. I got planes in my head, they’re flying off everywhere Looking like I don’t care and trying not to show I’ve just got to stand and stare so far as you’re concernedĮvery time I let you go it’s just an illusion Making every connection between the linesĪ lullaby and a love song for Native America. It’s the fifth generation the young and the old are as one On some reservation your purification’s begun Oh it was about Wolf and Coyote and Eagle and Kitchimanitou** He knew it too it was about Earth and about Sun and about Sky He reminds you of a legend that you had known as a child He was beaded and feathered from his head to his moccasined feet The kind of a face that you’d see on the edge of a dream He’s not like a stranger he’s more like a vision you’d seen Title is in the Cree language and it means “I love you, Baby.” I dedicate it to all the generations of Indigenous people who keep Native America alive in our hearts, in our cultures, and in our actions towards our most sacred mother, Nature. ***Wakontanka means Great Spirit in Lakota **Kitchimanitou means Great Spirit in Cree *Ke sakihitin awasis means I love you Baby in Cree. I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere I found this song in my head when I was just fooling around with my guitar. The pros and cons of Indigenous wonders are beyond what the merchants are trying to sell and the bankers are trying to steal. I wrote this when NASA was sending the guy to the moon and I was trying to get to the Rosebud Sioux reservation. The Minnesota Vikings play this song during their team introductions and before kickoffs.Kids were sent from heaven inside to lead you to the future My Dad said to me, “Daughter, they ought to leave that moon alone,” and I never forgot it, and it showed up in this song amidst a cast of characters that also includes Idle No More, Mother Earth and even those darn bankers. To get permission to use this song in the movie School Of Rock, the star of the movie, Jack Black, videotaped himself singing in front of a huge crowd of people, begging for Led Zeppelin to let them use the song in the movie. It is one of the band's few single releases, having been released in November 1970 by their record label, Atlantic Records, against the band's wishes. The lyrics make explicit reference to Viking conquests and the Old Norse religion The song is dedicated to the Icelander Leif Ericson, and is sung from the perspective of Vikings rowing west from Scandinavia in search of new lands. The song was written during Led Zeppelin's tour of Iceland in June 1970. ![]() There is a very faint count-off the beginning of the track with lots of hiss which appears on the album version, but is trimmed from the single version. The song is famous for its distinctive, wailing cry from vocalist Robert Plant at the beginning of the song. So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, We come from the land of the ice and snow,įrom the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
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