The fact that this song may not mean anything at all is also a possibility one fan must be ready to accept. After all we must understand the era this piece was written in, an age of where there was huge political unrest not only in America but in the world, technologicxal advances into the latter part of the 20th century, add all these new innovations, societal values, and political governance, mixed with a person who lived in this world's frustrations, and on top of that with ten hits of acid...and you may come up with a song like stairway to heaven. but it is not entirely without its meaning, though hard to interpret and analize word for word, its simply a song for striving through any unrest one goes through life, and yes that is the cornier versiono f it. Like pink floyd said, it is a rock n roll anthem regardless, and i believe everyone has their own version, that's the great thing.