There's a lady [the Virgin Mary] who's sure all that glitters [JFK, Trump, others] is gold And she's buying [using her earthly suffering as currency] a stairway to Heaven [the Millennium, or earthly paradise] When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for [who else has such influence in Heaven?] Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird [Robert Plant?] who sings Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven Ooh, it makes me wonder Ooh, makes me wonder There's a feeling I get when I look to the West [America, ie, Avalon, land of trees and where King Arthur sleeps] And my spirit is crying for leaving In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke [a la Mt. Aetna, under which in local legend King Arthur sleeps] through the trees [in America]] And the voices [posts] of those who stand looking [anons] Ooh, it makes me wonder Ooh, really makes me wonder And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune [Great Awakening?] Then the piper [Trump, Q?] will lead us to reason And a new day will dawn for those who stand long And the forests [America] will echo with laughter Oh-oh-oh-oh-whoa If there's a bustle in your hedgerow [?], don't be alarmed now It's just a spring clean for the May queen [Virgin Mary] Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run There's still time to change the road you're on And it makes me wonder Ohh, whoa Your head is humming [with thoughts], and it won't go, in case you don't know The piper's calling you to join him Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow? And did you know Your stairway lies on the whispering wind [the airwaves]? And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our soul There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last When all are one [Jesus], and one [Jesus] is all [WWG1WGA?] To be a rock and not to roll And she's buying a stairway to Heaven

Robert Plant wrote the lyrics of this Led Zeppelin song automatically. He was not a Catholic, but it's clearly about the Virgin Mary. In the above interpretation, it is about today.