Lyrics to
The Rover

This version of The Rover was released by Led Zeppelin in 1975.

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I’ve been to London, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall
I used to rock it, sometimes I’d roll it. I always knew what it was for.

There can be no denyin’ that the wind ‘ll shake ’em down
And the flat world’s flyin’. There’s a new plague on the land

If we could just join hands

Traversed the planet when heaven sent me. I saw the kings who rule them all
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight. I hear the rested rivers call
And the wind is crying, from a love that won’t grow cold
My lover, she is lying, on the dark side of the globe

If we could just join hands

You got me rockin’ when I ought to be a-rollin’
Darlin’, tell me, darlin’, which way to go
You keep me rockin’, baby, then you keep me stolen
Won’t you tell me, darlin’, which way to go… that’s right

Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry and I would dearly like to know
I’ve all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show

And our time is flyin’ see the candle burnin’ low
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old

If we could just join hands.

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Led Zeppelin has released many songs over the years besides The Rover. Led Zeppelin released songs from 1969 to 1982 spanning across albums like Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV, Houses Of The Holy, Physical Graffiti, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Led Zeppelin.

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The lyrics to The Rover are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Led Zeppelin used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to The Rover have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Led Zeppelin and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Rover by Led Zeppelin. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Rover" means the words set to the music of The Rover, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Led Zeppelin. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Rover and the lyrics to The Rover are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Led Zeppelin who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Rover, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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