1094 – Led Zeppelin – That's the way (1970)

Escrita por Robert Plant e Jimmy Page, foi lançada em 5 de outubro de 1970 no disco Led Zeppelin III. Foi escrita em Bron-Yr-Aur cottage, no país de Gales.

A canção fala de um rapaz que os pais eram contra a amizade dele com um sujeito porque ele tinha cabelos grandes e porque vinnha do lado pobre da cidade. Tem um violão de 12 cordas na gravação, um mandolin e violão de corda de aço, e no final temos um baixo e uma percussão.

A letra:

I don't know how I'm gonna tell you
I can't play with you no more
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me
My friend the boy next door

I can't believe what people saying
You're gonna let your hair hang down
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long
You're in the darker side of town

And when I'm out I see you walking
Why don't your eyes see me
Could it be you've found another game to play,
What did mama say to me

That's the way, Oh, that's the way it ought to be,
Mama say that's the way it ought to stay, yeah, yeah oh oh

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?
And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry

I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?
That's the way
That's the way it oughtta be
Oh don't you know now
Mama said, mama said, that's the way it's gonna stay, yeah, oh oh

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