1505 – Led Zeppelin – Kashmir (1975)

 

Escrita por John Bonham, Robert Plant e Jimmy Page, foi gravada entre janeiro e fevereiro de 1974 e lançada no disco Physical Grafitti, em 24 de fevereiro de 1975. Demoraram três anos pra completar a canção, sendo a letra completada em 1973. Todos os quatro membros do Led Zeppelin concordam que Kashmir é um dos maiores feitos da banda. A química toda da banda está contida nessa canção. É a canção número 141 da lista da revista Rolling Stone das 500 greatest songs of all time. Q Magazine disse que era o número 74 das 100 greatest songs of all time. E muitas outras premiações espalhadas pelos Estados Unidos e Reino Unido.

A letra:

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
And stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed

Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace
Sounds caress my ear
And not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear

Oh, baby, I been blind
Oh, yeah, mama, there ain't no denyin'
Oh, ooh yes, I been blind
Mama, mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin'

All I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land

Try to find, try to find the way I feel

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like sorts inside a dream
Leave the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My shangri la beneath the summer moon
I will return again
As the dust that floats high in June
We're moving through Kashmir

Oh, father of the four winds fill my sails
Cross the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear

Oh, when I want, when I'm on my way, yeah
And my feet wear my fickle way to stay

Ooh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah yeah,
But I'm down oh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah
Yeah, but I'm down, so down

Ooh, my baby, oh, my baby
Let me take you there
Come on, oh let me take you there
Let me take you there

A versão do Led Zeppelin:

A versão de Alice in Chains:

A versão de Martin Miller and Mark Lettieri: