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| Incensed that an [[Stairway to Heaven|elderly lawyer]] should presume to comment upon his [[Stairway to Heaven|lyrics]], Robert Plant & Jimmy Page got their own back when the old solicitor asked Led Zeppelin to sign a [[confidentiality agreement]]. This is what came back in the mail, with a note of costs.<ref>This story is certainly apocryphal.</ref> | | {{a|confi| |
| | {{image|Robert-Plant|jpg|Listen, do you want to know a secret?}} |
| | }}Incensed that an [[Stairway to Heaven|elderly lawyer]] should presume to comment upon his [[Stairway to Heaven|lyrics]], Robert Plant got his own back when the old solicitor asked Led Zeppelin to sign a [[confidentiality agreement]]. |
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| === My Confidential Heart ===
| | This is what came back in the mail, with a note of costs.<ref>This story is certainly apocryphal.</ref> |
| ''Words and Music by R Plant''
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| Baby, baby, baby (ad lib) <br />
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| If you want me to love you <br />
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| & tell you all I know<br />
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| Some things you gotta tell me<br />
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| Babe, you gotta show —<br />
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| Whatever else may happen<br />
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| What comes down on your head<br />
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| You’ll never break my confidence<br />
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| Or tell them what I said.<br />
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| (Listen —<br />
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| Do you want to know a secret?<br />
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| Do you promise not to tell?)<ref>We think he may have had a little help from his friends.</ref>
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| & when I say my “[[definitions|Secrets]]”<br />
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| This is what I mean:<br />
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| Everything I tell you<br />
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| About everything I’ve seen<br />
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| & everything I show you<br />
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| & everything I knew<br />
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| & everything I’ve told you<br />
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| About everything I do.<br />
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| I don’t mean no other things —<br />
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| Not what the whole world knows<br />
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| Not what another man has said<br />
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| That’s not the way it goes<br />
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| & baby, there’s one other thing<br />
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| You can cut out & save:<br />
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| Though you may take<br />
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| The Secrets that I tell you<br />
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| To your grave,<br />
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| I never promised anything I told you<br />
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| Would be true<br />
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| I never said to no-one<br />
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| That I’d never lie to you.<br />
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| Tell me that you will, my baby<br />
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| That you’ll do what you can<br />
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| To keep my secrets safe & sound<br />
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| & not tell another man<br />
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| You can maybe tell your mama<br />
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| & tell your daddy too<br />
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| & tell your regulator<br />
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| If he tells you you have to<br />
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| But before you spill my Secrets<br />
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| (That you promised to the grave)<br />
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| You gotta let me know<br />
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| So I can go<br />
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| & force them to behave<br />
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| Now things may change & we may change —<br />
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| Our love no more be true.<br />
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| If it should fail & break apart<br />
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| Here’s what you’re gonna do:<br />
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| You’re gonna send it back<br />
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| You’re gonna hand it back<br />
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| You’re gonna give it back to me<br />
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| (But you may choose <br />
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| To put beyond your use<br />
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| The stuff you can’t unsee)<br />
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| I ain’t granting you no licence<br />
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| Ain’t pledging you no right<br />
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| & if we should ever quarrel<br />
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| If we should ever fight<br />
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| If there’s ever tension<br />
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| That lovers can’t resolve<br />
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| There’s a place the I can take you<br />
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| To make our differences dissolve<br />
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| It ain’t no [[arbitration]]<br />
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| It ain’t no arbitrary thought<br />
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| It’s the chancery division<br />
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| [[governing law|Of an English court]].<br />
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| So if you want to hear me squeal<br />
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| Sign on the dotted line<br />
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| & I’ll open my whole heart to you<br />
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| One vein at a time.<br />
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| ==== References ====
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