See High Hopes
Interesting choice for the band which created “Eclipse,” “Comfortably Numb,” “the Great Gig in the Sky,” “Breathe,” “Learning to Fly” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.”
Some of those are more obviously thematically similar to Stairway than others; some feature a more comparable guitar solo. Most are about whether a quest for Heaven is borne of materialism or spirituality, which is how I’ve always understood Stairway to Heaven (Comfortably Numb is at once the most certain of there being something more, yet the most remote from it:
“When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glipse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look, but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the dream has died
I have become comfortably numb.”)
This High Hopes?