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In the Evening Lyrics - Led Zeppelin



In the evening
When the day is done
I'm looking for my woman
Oh, but the girl don't come
So don't let her
Play you for a fool
She don't show no pity baby
No no, she don't make no rules

Oh, oh, I need your love,
        I need your love
Oh, I need your love 
        I just got to have / I've got pain

So don't you let her
Oh, get under your skin
It's only bad luck and trouble
>From the day that you begin
I hear you crying in the darkness
Don't ask nobody's help
Ain't no pockets dull of mercy baby
Cause you can only blame yourself
 
Oh it's simple
All the pain that you go through
You can turn away from fortune, fortune
Cause that's all that's left to you
It's lonely at the bottom
Man, it's dizzy at the top
But if you're standing in the middle
Ain't no way you're gonna stop

Oh whatever what your days may bring
No use hiding in a corner
Cause that won't change a thing
If you're dancing in the doldrums
One day soon, it's got to stop, it's got to stop
When you're the master of the off-chance
Well, you don't expect a lot


This is one of 3 songs where Jimmy Page played his guitar with a violin bow. The others are "Dazed And Confused" and "In The Light." Jimmy's bowing can be heard in the section after his double-tracked guitar solo ("I was a young man, I couldn't resist..."). (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)
Robert Plant's lyrics are about how the rich and famous are still exposed to pain and suffering, just in different ways.
Page used a Gizmotron - a guitar processing device invented by Lol Creme and Kevin Godley from the band 10cc - to get a strange distorted sound.
When they were recording this album, Jimmy Page and John Bonham were spending a lot of time together and would usually show up at the studio very late and work through the night. This started out with just drums and keyboards created by John Paul Jones, who had a new drum machine to work with.
Plant: "A great one, a real stomper."


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