Lyrics: Houses of the Holy

This page contains my transcription of the lyrics from this Led Zeppelin album.
The Song Remains the Same / The Rain Song / Over the Hills and Far Away
The Crunge / Dancing Days / D'yer Mak'er / No Quarter / The Ocean

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The Song Remains The Same

I had a dream - oh, yeah
Crazy dream - oh, oh
Anything I wanted to know
Any place I needed to go

Hear my song - people don't you listen now?
Sing along - you don't know what you're missing now
Any little song that you know
Everything that's small has to grow
And it's all growing - push, push

California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain
Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same

Sing out Hare Hare - dance the hoochie koo
City lights are oh so bright, as we go sliding, sliding, sliding through

IconThe Rain Song

It 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 recognise
These things are clear to all from time to time

Oh, talk, talk --
I 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
But I know that I love you so

These are the seasons of emotion
And like the wind 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
Just a little rain

IconOver The Hills And Far Away

Hey, lady - you got the love I need
Maybe - more than enough
Oh, darling, darling, walk a while with me
Ooh, you've got so much, so much

Many have I loved - many times been bitten
Many times I've gazed along the open road

Many times I've lied - many times I've listened
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know

Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings
I live for my dream, and a pocketful of gold

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
Many many men can't see the open road

Many is a word that only leaves you guessing
Guessing 'bout a thing you really ought to know
You really ought to know
I really ought to know

IconThe Crunge

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 won't come again
I ain't gonna tell you nothin' but I sure will, what I know
Now let me tell you 'bout my girl
Open up a newspaper and what do I see?
I see my girl looking at me
And when she walks, she walks - lemme tell ya
When she talks, she talks
And when she looks 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 dont need no respect from nobody, no
I ain't gonna tell you nothing I ain't gonna tell ya no more, no
She's my baby - let me tell you that I love her so
She's the woman I really wanna love, and let me tell you more
She's my baby - let me tell you she lives next door
She's the one woman, the one woman that I know
I ain't going, I ain't going, I ain't going to tell
I ain't gonna tell you one thing that you really ought to know
She's my loving 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 fill the whole world, and
She's the one who really makes me jump and shout
She's the kind of girl - I know what it's all about
Take it on - take it, 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?]

IconDancing Days

Dancing days are here again
As the summer evenings grow
I got my flower - I got my power
I got a woman who knows

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
Sippin' booze is precedent
As the evening starts to glow

You know it's alright - I said it's alright
You know it's all in my heart
You'll be my only - my one and only
Is that the way it should start?

You told your mamma I'd get you home
But you didn't say that I had no car
I saw a lion - he was standing alone
With a tadpole in a jar

You know it's alright - I said 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?

So dancing days are here again
As the summer evenings grow
You are my flower - you are my power
You are my woman who knows

I said it's alright - you know it's alright
You know it's all in my heart
You'll be my only - my one and only
Is that the way it should start?
I know it is, yeah

IconD'yer Mak'er

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
You don't have to 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 that you wrote me
It made me mad, mad, mad
When I read the news that it told me
It made me sad, sad, sad
But I still love you so - I can't let you go
I love you - oh baby, I love you

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Every breath I take oh oh oh oh
Every move I make, yeah
Baby, please don't go

Ay ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul oh oh oh oh
You hurt me to my soul oh oh oh oh
Darling, please don't go

When I read the letter you sent me
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, and I can't let you go
I love you - oh baby, I love you

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh
You don't have to go oh oh oh oh
Baby, baby, please, please, please

IconNo Quarter

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 - 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

They hold no quarter - they ask no quarter
They ask no quarter - they give no quarter
[The version on The Song Remains The Same ends:
  Oh, the misery without quarter
  Oh, the pain without quarter]

IconThe Ocean

Singing in the sunshine - laughing in the rain
Hitting on the moonshine - rocking in the grain
Got no time to pack my bag - my foot's outside the door
I got a date - I can't be late for the hills I'm heading for

Singing to an ocean - I can hear the ocean's roar
Play for free - I play for me and play a whole lot more
Sing about the good things and the sun that lights the day
I used to sing on the mountains - has the ocean lost its way?

Sitting round singing songs till 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

It sure is fine - I blow my mind
Makes me feel so good, yeah

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