Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away Lyrics Meaning

When I interpret lyrics, I never feel like I am digging very deep into the meaning. I will try to do so here, but hear with me.

Hey Lady--you got the love I need
Maybe, more than enough

Assuming that Robert Plant wrote these lyrics, I assume that he wrote this line for his wife, or perhaps his daughter (he has a line about her in "The Ocean" from the same album).

Many times I've loved - Many times been bitten
Many times I've gazed along the open road.

"Many times I've loved" contains no metaphor, "Many times been bitten" quite obviously is a metahpor for Plant's heart being broken many times in the past. "Gazed along the open road" is a metaphor for realizing that the love is gone and moving on is now the thing to do.

Many times I've lied - Many times I've listened
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

These lines are pretty straightforward, "Many times I've lied - Many times I've listened" reflecting on how we all do wrong and right in our lives. "Wondered how much there is to know" referring specifically to the pursuit of knowledge being unlimited but perhaps trivial and unimportant. Perhaps this can be taken in a broader sense as one can always self-improve but how do you judge what improvement is and where it ends so why get too over involved in it?

Many dreams come true and some have silver linings
I live for my dream and a pocketful of gold.

These lines don't fit in with the rest of my interpretation, and you would have to know Robert Plant personally to know what "my dream" is referring to, and I'm sure "pocketful of gold" is a metaphor for something over than hitting it rich (which he did, but I'm sure it wasn't a priority for him).

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
Many many men can't see the open road.

I'm not sure what Plant was thinking about when he wrote this line but I almost think its a little bit of commentary about how we should do what makes us happy. You can know you are missing something and be perfectly happy because maybe its not all its cracked up to be.

In its whole, I think this song is about the importance of finding love and happiness and not being a afraid of going on a journey to find those things. Don't get caught up in trivial things because nobody is perfect and at the end of the day, love and happiness are the things that matter.