CALLING
TO YOU
ROBERT
PLANT
SONGWRITER:
ROBERT PLANT
COUNTRY: U.K.
WHERE: LIVE IN BBC 1993
ALBUM:
FATE OF NATIONS
LABEL:
MERCURY RECORDS
GENRE:
ROCK AND ROLL
YEAR:
1993
Fate of Nations is Led
Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's sixth solo album. It was released in 1993 and
re-released in a remastered edition on 20 March 2007. It features former
Cutting Crew guitarist Kevin Scott MacMichael. The lead singer of Clannad, Máire
Brennan is featured on the track "Come Into My Life". The song "I Believe" is
a tribute to Robert Plant's late son, Karac.
Plant explained his album in the following terms:
“
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From
the very beginning of this project, around January 1991, right after the Manic
Nirvana tour, I knew what I was going to do: go back into my past, listening
to [Moby] Grape, the [Jefferson] Airplane, Tim Hardin, Quicksilver, Traffic,
and other turning-point artists in rock. These people were trying to tell the listener
something, joining various traditions, with the sense of a quest being
insinuated and bandied in their acoustic and electronic themes. I'm also proud of what I've attempted to do lyrically [on the album],
trying to tell vivid tales that come from a hearty tradition of prose.
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”
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The album was Plant's last
completely solo album until his comeback with his seventh studio álbum Dreamland
in 2002. The album
was mixed at Westside Studios by Tim Palmer.
Beyond the river - over the sea
Somewhere's last last farewell that ever will be
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
Out in the blue now, just waiting to be
A little breath of selflessness, adrift in all the greed
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
Look for the match - cover Adam and Eve
All the world when new was fire - it still was the scene
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
So you're gonna - it's for your honour - it's gonna be done
Where you gonna go? when you gonna stop?
Who stole the keys to the gates of the castle of love?
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
Who you gonna call? what you gonna say?
Standin' in the shadows as the world's just fadin' away
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
Who you gonna call? when you gonna stop?
Who stole the keys to the gates of the castle of love?
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
It's calling to you, calling to you, calling to you
Who you gonna call? what you gonna say?
Standin' in the shadows as the world's just fadin' away
Just fadin' away, just fadin' away –