핑크 플로이드(Pink Floyd)의 커버 디자인으로 유명한 힙노시스(Hipgnosis)가 창조한 신비로운 분위기는 몇몇 곡들의 이미지와도 맞아떨어진다. 밴드의 신비주의적 성향이 극대화된 작품들인 두 대곡 `The Rain Song`과 `No Quarter`가 그것인데, `The Rain Song`에서 존 폴 존스가 들려주는 아련하고 꿈결 같은 멜로트론 사운드는 프로그레시브적인 분위기를 물씬 내뿜고 있으며, 지극히 몽환적이고 환각적인 색채를 담은 `No Quarter`의 완성도 높은 미학적 구성은 다른 어느 작품에서도 볼 수 없는 독특한 것이었다. 하지만 앨범의 전체적인 색깔은 어느 한 쪽으로만 치우쳐 있지 않다. `The Song Remains The Same`의 직선적인 연주와 역동성, 미국 차트 51위를 기록한 `Over The Hills And Far Away`를 수놓는 편안한 어쿠스틱 포크의 분위기, 역시 미국에서 20위에 올랐던 `D`yer Ma`ker`를 수놓는 레게리듬을 바탕으로 한 친근한 멜로디, 그리고 제임스 브라운(James Brown)의 소울에 영향을 받은 듯한 `The Crunge` 등은 밴드가 이 앨범을 통해 보여주려 했던 다양성을 멋지게 드러내는 곡들이다. 앨범은 영국과 미국에서 모두 1위에 올랐다([Coda]를제외한 이후의 모든 스튜디오 앨범들은 미국과 영국에서 1위를 기록한다). .... ....
I had a dream Oh, yeah Crazy dream uh-huh Anything I wanted to know Any place I needed to go
Hear my song Yeah People don't you listen now Sing along Oh You don't know what you're missing now Any little song that you know Everything that's small has to grow And it has to grow Push push yeah
California sunlight sweet Calcutta rain Honolulu starbright the song remains the same
ooh ooh
Here we go
Sing out Hare Hare dance the Hoochie Koo City lights are oh so bright as we go sliding sliding sliding through
This is the springtime of my loving the second season I am to know You are the sunlight in my growing so little warmth I've felt before. It isn't hard to feel me glowing I watched the fire that grew so low.
It is the summer of my smiles flee from me Keepers of the Gloom. Speak to me only with your eyes. It is to you I give this tune. Ain't so hard to recognize These things are clear to all from time to time.
Talk Talk I've felt the coldness of my winter I never thought it would ever go I cursed the gloom that set upon us... But I know that I love you so
These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall This is the wonder of devotion I see the torch we all must hold. This is the mystery of the quotient Upon us all a little rain must fall
I wanna tell you bout my good thing I ain't disclosing no names but-- He sure is a good friend and! I ain't gonna tell you where he comes from, no! If I tell you you wont come again! Hey! I ain't gonna tell you nothin but I do will, but I know, yeah! I should do but I know now let me tell you bout my girl: Open up a newspaper and what do I see? Ahh, ah See my girl, ah, looking at me Ooh, And when she walks, Ooh, lemme tell ya: She walks and when she talks, she talks and When she looks at me in the eye She's my baby lord I wanna make her mine Tell me baby what you want me to do! You want me to love you, love some other man too? Ain't gonna call me Mr. pitiful, no! I don't need no respect from nobody...
I ain't gonna tell you nothing I ain't gonna no more, no! She's my baby let me tell you that I love her so and And! She's the woman I really wanna love And let me tell you more, oooh! She's my baby she lives next door She's the one a woman the one a woman that I know. I ain't gonna... tell you one thing that you really ought to know ooh! She's my lover baby and I love her so and She's the one that really makes me whirl and twirl! And she's the kind of lover that makes me me fill the whole world and She's the one who really makes me jump and shout, ooh! She's the kind of girl--I know what it's all about! Take it take it
Excuse me Oh will you excuse me I'm just trying to find the bridge... Has anybody seen the bridge?
(Have you seen the bridge?) I ain't seen the bridge!
(Where's that confounded bridge?) (spoken by Robert Plant)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh Baby please don't go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay Baby please don't go.
*When I read the letter you wrote it made me mad mad mad When I read the news that it brought me It made me sad sad sad. But I still love you so I can't let you go I love you- ooh baby I love you.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh Every move I make oh oh oh oh oh Baby please don't go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay Darling please don't go.
*Repeat
Oh oh oh oh oh oh You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh You don't have to go oh oh oh oh oh (Baby please don't go)
Close the door, put out the light. You know they won't be home tonight. The snow falls hard and don't you know? The winds of Thor are blowing cold. They're wearing steel that's bright and true They carry news that must get through.
They choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter.
Walking side by side with death, The devil mocks their every step The snow drives back the foot that's slow, The dogs of doom are howling more They carry news that must get through, To build a dream for me and you
They choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter. They ask no quarter. The pain, the pain without quarter. They ask no quarter. The dogs of doom are howling more!
Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the grain Ain't no time to pack my bag, my foots outside the door Got a date, I can't be late, for the high hopes hailla ball.
Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more, more! Singing about good things and the sun that lights the day I used to sing on the mountains, has the ocean lost it's way.
Sitting round singing songs 'til the night turns into day Used to sing on the mountains but the mountains washed away Now I'm singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart She is only three years old and it's a real fine way to start.
전작과 마찬가지로 이 앨범 역시 재킷의 어디에도 그룹명이나 앨범 타이틀은 인쇄되어 있지 않다. 핑크 플로이드(Pink Floyd)의 커버 디자인으로 유명한 힙노시스(Hipgnosis)가 창조한 신비로운 분위기는 몇몇 곡들의 이미지와도 맞아떨어진다. 밴드의 신비주의적 성향이 극대화된 작품들인 두 대곡 `The Rain Song`과 `No Quarter`가 그것인데, `The Rain Song`에서 존 폴 존스가 들려주는 아련하고 꿈결 같은 멜로트론 사운드는 프로그레시브적인 분위기를 물씬 내뿜고 있으며, 지극히 몽환적이고 환각적인 색채를 담은 `No Quarter`의 완성도 높은 미학적 구성은 다른 어느 작품에서도 볼 수 없는 독특한 것이었다.<br> 하지만 앨범의 전체적인 색깔은 어느 한 쪽으로만 치우쳐 있지 않다. `The Song Remains The Same`의 직선적인 연주와 역동성, 미국 차트 51위를 기록한 `Over The Hills And Far Away`를 수놓는 편안한 어쿠스틱 포크의 분위기, 역시 미국에서 20위에 올랐던 `D`yer Ma`ker`를 수놓는 레게리듬을 바탕으로 한 친근한 멜로디, 그리고 제임스 브라운(James Brown)의 소울에 영향을 받은 듯한 `The Crunge` 등은 밴드가 이 앨범을 통해 보여주려 했던 다양성을 멋지게 드러내는 곡들이다. 앨범은 영국과 미국에서 모두 1위에 올랐다([Coda]를제외한 이후의 모든 스튜디오 앨범들은 미국과 영국에서 1위를 기록한다).<br>수입국가: USA(Remastered)