Kashmir

Version 1994, released on 'No Quarter':
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded

Oh let the sun beat down upon my face,
Stars to fill my dream
I am 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
And all will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace,
Whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate,
The story was quite clear

All I see turns to brown,
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand,
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find where I've been.

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace,
Like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place,
Yellow desert stream.
My shangri-la beneath the summer moon,
I will return again.
Sure as the dust that floats high and true,
When movin' through Kashmir.

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

When I'm on my way,
When I see the way, you stay

Let me take you there.