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Presence, 1976
Written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
This is a really pleasant surprise from the small batch of Zep songs I'm not familiar with! It's a funky Zep track! Of course the lads always experimented with a fusion of styles, from Middle Eastern to blues, but this song. I think, stands out as unlike almost all their word. It's a stuttering, lurching track with start-stop rhythms, a great guitar solo with whammy work. Bonham's drums start relatively restrained, but keep building in muscle and momentum. The lyrics are reportedly about the anger Plant felt at the time about drug use affecting the band's ascendance, and they reflect the starry-eyed poet he was: "As the moon and the stars call the order / Inside my tides dance the ebb and sway / The sun in my soul's sinking lower / While the hope in my hands turns to clay."
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