Knowing Led Zep didn't write many of their own songs, I was surprised to see this was their first.  Tori does it OK, but this song and these words caught my thoughts on love, long before my first engulfing experience set the foundation of feelings beneath it.

"Thank You" signaled a deeper involvement in songwriting by singer Robert Plant, being the first Led Zeppelin song that he wrote all the lyrics for. According to various Led Zeppelin biographies, this is also the song that made Jimmy Page realize that Plant could now handle writing the majority of the lyrics for the band's songs. Plant wrote the song as a tribute to his then-wife Maureen.

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be lovin' you
Mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me

Kind woman, I give you my all
Kind woman, nothing more

Little drops of rain
Whisper on the plains
Tears have run thrust in the days gone by
If my love is strong
Here there is no wrong
Together we shall go until we die
My, my
Inspiration is what you are to me
Inspiration, love to see

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be lovin' you
Mountains crumble to the sea
There will still be you and me

"Well, Thank You is a wonderful song. I covered it a while back. I think Robert wrote it for his partner, and I remember thinking, I wish I could write something like that. My favorite has to be Whole Lotta Love, though. When I first met my husband {recording engineer Mark Hawley}, that song took on a new significance. Suddenly it was Oreo cookies again. Whole Lotta Love is an aphrodisiac, and it makes you want to put on your kitten-heel boots.
— Tori; Mojo Magazine, October 2001

T: Oh yeah. And it was pretty strict. But I was *obsessed* with The White Album, Sergeant Pepper and Zeppelin. And all I could do was go over and over and over, um, to Jimmy's playing and his phrasing. And as a piano player, I studied him, and I studied him, and I studied him. And I said, 'I'm gonna bring this to the piano'. Because he was the bridge, I felt, from classical music to contemporary playing. He understood that. And Robert of course... is the *Goddess*. (both laugh) I mean, Robert understands the energy of the feminine. You're looking at a bit of Merlin... and when you understand that, you understand what their power was... about the sensuality of the Goddess, that's what their music was about.

I: And Tori, they've been often copied and covered, and no-one so *beautifully*, in my opinion anyway, as you did with that, ah, song Thank You that was on a little EP of yours. Just the most beautiful cover of one of those... Interpretation of one of their songs.

T: That's good. I think it's great that Zeppelin is getting played a lot, I think they've inspired so much music....and people go back to those records, because they are a bench-mark, no different than The Beatles. It's very similar. Well I try, again, when I do a cover, I try and approach it from... OK, the piano will look at me sideways and she'll go, 'How can we put this in our language, and honour it?', because their version is always, you know, the definitive. And now how can we bring it to this instrument? The piano, which I think has been stigmatized. The piano isn't given her due. And a lot of times she's relegated to sappy-crappy pop music, or you know, just strict classical music.
— Tori; Interview On JJJ FM Radio In Australia, 02/26/96