They livin' it up at the Hotel CaliforniaĪnd she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device" He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine."Īnd still those voices are calling from far away Some dance to remember, some dance to forget How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell" Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air The meaning is pretty clear if you have some historical perspective, although I admit it used to give me nightmares as a kid.On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair A give-away line is "we haven't had that spirit here since 1969" - about the time the movement went to shit as crime, prostitution and hard drugs ecliplsed the naive hippie "turn on, tune in, drop out" "spirit" on which the CC was based upon. The Hotel California started of as "such a lovely place", a welcome deviation from the grim journey that society was taking in the 1960s, and turned into an inescapable nightmare. "The beast" represents the corruption of the countercultural movement - the beast is everything dark and negative about the CC - it took over, and they can't kill it. This was the central problem they were trying to get at - he "rented a room", meaning that he only intended to indulge in that lifestyle for an indefinate period. The protaginst (representing American culture/society?) came upon the place by accident after a long and tiring journey, and eventually found that he could never leave - you can never go back to the innocent pre-counterculture days- you're trapped in the "Hotel California". The Hotel California represents the counterculture (started in California, etc).
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