A song from
Led Zeppelin's 1973 album
Houses of the Holy, also covered by
Stone Temple Pilots on
encomium. It features a groovy sliding
organ, possibly a
mellotron, as well as some wailing guitars tuned to a more
eastern sound. The lyrics, as near as I can tell, defy any literal interpretation, but the
sexual innuendo is definitely there if you want to read into it. The lion is probably his girlfriend's father, and she is the tadpole. And
I am the walrus.
Lyrics:
Dancing days are here again as the summer evenings grow.
I got my
flower, I got my
power, I got a woman who knows.
CHORUS
I said it's alright.
You know it's alright...
I guess it's all in my heart.
You'll be my only,
my one and only:
Is that the way it should start?
Crazy ways are evident in the way that you're wearing your clothes.
Sipping booze is precedent, as the evening starts to glow.
CHORUS
You told your mama I'd get you home, but you didn't tell her I had no car.
I saw a lion he was standing alone with a tadpole in a jar.
CHORUS
Dancing days are here again as the summer evening grows.
You are my flower, you are my power,
You are my woman who knows.
CHORUS