Eagles: Hotel California Meaning
Song Released: 1977
Hotel California Lyrics
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the...
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I believe the Hotel California is about hell and what will happen to you if you listen to it. Like one post said, Anton Lavay's picture is on their album (Satan worshiper). It just happen to get there, yea right, the eagles wanted it there. Lavay was a devil worshiper and the eagles know it. Someone on here said Don Henley said it really wasn't about anything, do you really think he`s gonna tell you what the real meaning of the song is? No he's not, he's just glad that you can't figure it out..
Satan tells nobody how his schemes work. Every time I'm in a store or restaurant and that song is playing I cover my ears or leave, I don`t listen to anything they sing, or the Beatles, the Stones and Elton John, all of these people are homosexual.....and if you don`t know what the BIBLE says about homosexuality, look it up, your eternal destiny hinges on it. One verse says, if a man lies with another man as like with a woman, both shall surely be put to death, and there are more verses about it, look it up...........by the way i`m not saying any of the Eagles are homosexuals, because I don`t know, I was just stating some that I know are. -
The devil knows his cover is being blown, it`s being blown slowly, but nevertheless it`s being blown.....so satan has even put together so called christian rock, and people think it`s of GOD just because GOD is mentioned, and satan just smiles and laughs. He say`s yep, got um again, I still have the ones that haven't awaken yet. You know the ones who still listen to rock, but I`ve got to change my tactic`s a bit for the ones that are getting away, so I will introduce my rock beat in the form of christian music and they will never be the wiser, and you know what? He is right, he put it right past the preachers ( some of them ) and they never even knew he was at work.
Christian rock bands are moving into the churches like crazy, and people don`t even know it. Look at it like this.. these young people up there hammering away with this rock beat, they do it because they just can't get away from this satanic beat, if that wasn't the case then why can't they play the song the way is was originally done, there is even a song, give me that ole time religeon, it was good enough for grandma, and it was good enough for grandpa, so give me that ole time religion....but according to the Christian rockers, it`s no longer good enough, it saved their grandma and grandpa but it can`t save them, bunk.....the way the rockers play christian music it don`t even sound christian, it sounds satanic with the driving beat, and no i`m not an old fogy, there are teens 14 15 years of age that can see through the devil.....GOD BLESS ALL... -
The people that said 90% don`t even know what the BIBLE say`s are right.....so all of you that make excuses for the songs meaning here it is......Anton Lavey did in fact start the satanic church......heres another one for you...people listen to the Beatles Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.....Alister Crowley was a 32nd degree mason and the most notorious satan worshiper of his time. He said satan was god. Notice I gave his god a little g....but if you look at Sargent Peppers album, look at the top of the album on the left side, second from left, guess who that is? it is none other than Alister Crowley, the Beatles praised him, because Paul said himself, well none of us believe in GOD. Lennon said this god thing will disappear, he said trust me it will, well he lied, in 1980 a bullet found his head, he has long been a worm banquet, but JESUS AND THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE ARE ALIVE AND WELL...and not only that since all these other bands copied a lot from the Beatles, they also worship crowley, the stones, and to many others to mention, don`t believe me, Google them and see for yourself....GOD BLESS ALL....
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Hotel Callifornia is not a song about drugs or escaping life. It is about an old mental hospital called Camarillo state Hospital which has closed down and become Channel Islands state Univercity.
"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair" refers to the 101 HighWay in the Sanfernando Vally going out of the valley Going toward the beach in the Camarillo, Oxnard,Ventura are where there is a breeze by the beach
Also when he heers the voices he is actually mentaly Insane and he can the voices in his head.
"You can checkout any time you like,
but you can never leave!" Is Saying u can never leave because its a mental hospital and you are not ever to leave
Look up the mental hospital Its Camarillo State Hospital or what it is refered to now for some people is "Scary Darey" because it is beleived to be haunted -
I always thought this song was about addiction, possibly, but not necessarily, to drugs. The woman and the welcoming voices represent temptation. The lines about "her mind is Tiffany twisted" and "she's got the Mercedes Benz" refers to materialistic nature that often goes with the lifestyle of drug abuse and extravagence. The "pretty boys that she calls friends" implies that people who share your addictions are just using you. The "dancing" is a motivation for drug use (to remember or to forget). "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969" refers to the spirit of free love and casual drug use of the Summer of Love and the hippy movement in general. "Mirrors on the ceiling" are the painful reminders of what your addictions are really doing to you. "We are all just prisoners here of our own device" seems pretty obvious: they caused their own troubles by getting involved with the addictions in the first place. "Stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to how painful and difficult it really is to overcome addictions. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" means that even if you think you have your addictions under control, you are really still a slave to them and you can relapse at any time.
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Call me crazy but I have a hunch this song might be about...
California. All of it. The fame, the drugs, the cults, the hippies, the mental hospital, the prison, and whatever else California is known for. These things are all kind of intertwined anyway, each being perpetuated by rest. A lot of the actual references in the lyrics to be seem to be about the whole Hollywood glam thing and the dream of becoming famous. That and the drugs theme go hand in hand so there's no way to tell which one they mean. -
This song is about prison. The only hotel of california. You can check anytime you like, but you cant never leave. This is played throughout all prisons everyday in california.
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I think the song is about losing your soul in general, whether it be to hell, the music industry, or drugs.
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ok i think ur all wrong simply cuz hotel california was a real place. it was a cult but no one kne it and they made drug addicts go there to 'get bettr'. wen accually once u checked in u wer nevr let out."you can check out anytime but you can never leave" this place was in the middle of the kno where in the desert. they wud make people work all day in the sun without feeding them for days and if u stoped working u wer beaten. many people died ther also. so the singer of the song wrote bout it becuz he got caught there but he escaped. also iv had family that wer broken out.
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i have something to prove that the whole song is about drugs and usage of'em in america...(the metaphoric hotel california)
ok..now listen...you missed one important point...and that's the year 1969.till 1969 the most widely used drug in america was Marijuana that suddenly turned out to be a dream for addicts...it was almost unreachable.this got addicts through using much harder drugs such as heroin,crack and such things.remember that Don Henley mentions a wine,that iconize the difference between the worse and worst... -
Also, Colitas is a name for a marijuana bud.
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As much as the hell makes sense, its a miss, the song is about drugs.
Actually, the most accepted theory is that Hotel California talks about "high life" in So. California during the time the song was written. It talks about a being trapped in the high life, and having to deal with many obsessions - especially drugs. Many of the lines mentioned in the other review of this song present on this site are a direct reference to drugs: "We are all prisoners here of our own device" - you choose to live the high life, and then are stuck to them; "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" - as an artist, you can always step away from the spotlight, but you'll always be stuck to it somehow; "this could be heaven or this could be hell" - once more, a reference to the high life, and also to the high during a drug run, and the low afterwards; "And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast The stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast" - a reference to buying drugs for someone, doing the drugs, and still wanting more." -
I think too many people believe that this song has to be about one thing or another. Why can't all (or at least some) of these interpretations be correct? Prison, Sin, Hell, addiction, materialism, greed, suicide, Satanism, all of these things are connected and interrelated. Its a beautifully haunting song chronicling the fall of a man (or society as a whole). By angrily debating the specifics we lose the truth of the song.
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This song is obviously about weed. The hotel California, much like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and LSD, means THC, the principle acting compound in weed. other evidence: the solo starts at exactly 4:20. "colitas" means little buds. like, of weed. She lit up a candle, or a shpleeeee.....?
This song can also be interpreted as a metaphor for materialism, which I'm sure isn't an accident, but there is no doubt they were trying to be clever with the weed references. -
The song was written about a man who was put into an institution in California wrongly
This place was one in which once they throw you in one can not get out unless someone comes and signs you out
His mother got in her car drove from FL cross country to CA, and signed him out and did save his life
Don wrote it about him
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