"For Your Life"
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"For Your Life"
by Led Zeppelin
From the album Presence (1976)
Written by milindaledzep (2)
This second track is not as intense as the first track on this album ("Achilles Last Stand"), allowing the listener time to relax somewhat with an intro where drums, guitar and vocals are all in unison.
Lyrically Robert Plant is depicting a journey of sorts as he proclaims "Oh, ho" and "in the city of the damned", sounding almost irritated as he softly delivers the words. However, there is an undercurrent of tension as he shows his skill at holding long notes.
Jimmy delivers a beautiful solo in the middle of the song that ebbs and flows along, relaxing the listener's ear, cruising along on a non-threatening wave of audible bliss.
Then Robert comes in, still following a vocal passage which is gathering momentum and culminates with him enthusiastically pronouncing "for your life", repeating this to the echo of Bonzo's drums.
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