EAGLES LYRICS - Hotel California EAGLES LYRICS On a dark desert highway, 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 doorway; I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself, "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell" Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year (Any time of year) You can find it here Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.

Some dance to remember, some dance to forget So I called up the Captain, "Please bring me my wine" He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine" And still those voices are calling from far away, Wake you up in the middle of the night Just to hear them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face They livin' it up at the Hotel California What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise) Bring your alibis The pink champagne on ice And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device" And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before "Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! " Visit for these lyrics. Thanks to Franny, Douglas for correcting these lyrics.

EAGLES - HOTEL CALIFORNIA LYRICS Hotel California Lyrics On a dark desert highway, 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 doorway, I heard the mission bell Then I was thinking to myself this could be Heaven or this could be Hell Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor I thought I heard them say "Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year You can find it here" Her mind is Tiffany twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys that she calls friends How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat Some dance to remember, some dance to forget So I called up the captain, "Please bring me my wine" He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969" And still those voices are calling from far away Wake you up in the middle of the night just to hear them say "Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place Hotel California : snopes.com Hotel

 California Claim: The Eagles song “Hotel California” is about Satanism.

FALSE Examples: [Collected via e-mail, 2003] There's a rumor that’s been around for some time concerning the Eagles’ song "Hotel California". The basic premise is that the song is about a Christian church that was abandoned (or otherwise vacated) in 1969, and was taken over by an occultic group (usually Satan worshippers). For some unknown reason, it became known as the "Hotel of California". Further rumors have it that the Eagles are Satan worshippers, and that Satan appears in the window on the "Hotel California" album jacket. [Collected via e-mail, 2001] I remember hearing as a kid that the Eagle's megaplatinum song "Hotel California" was about Aleister Crowley's mansion near Loch Ness, and the weird goings-on that supposedly happened there; including such "clues" as the line "...they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill The Beast" (Crowley's nickname). It's even been said that if you look on the album cover, you can see Satanic High Preist Anton LeVey in one of the windows. I've looked, and though it is fuzzy...

damned if it doesn't look like him. [Collected via e-mail, 2000] My fellow high schoolmates and I (class of '85) were warned of the "evils" of certain types of music and were not allowed to play anything that was not approved by the nuns, at our school dances. Music by the Eagles was not allowed due to the "fact" that the song Hotel California was about a Satanic Cult organized in California in the year 1969. Reference was made to the lyric, "we haven't had that spirit here since 1969," as meaning the Spirit of Christ had not been present since 1969 upon organization of the cult. The mentioned lyric is a reply to a request for wine, in the song. According to my very protective, but wonderful teachers, this was yet "more proof" that the song was about a Satanic cult. Wine is an important symbol of the blood of Christ for Catholics and many Christian denominations.

Origins: The Eagles' 1976 album "Hotel California" has sold more than 16 million copies, spawned a best-record Grammy, and is regarded by numerous rock critics as one of the best albums ever. Its title track, the haunting "Hotel California" continues to entrance listeners even though during its heyday the song was on the charts for only nineteen weeks and in the number one spot for only one. Because its lyrics contain an ominous undercurrent, many have appeased their sense of disquiet by finding in the words literal and figurative meanings that just aren't there. Theories abound as to what the song means. Some see the devil in the lyrics. Others see a madhouse. Some believe the song was written about a real inn bearing that name. Though there is a Hotel California in Todos Santos, a town on Mexico's Baja California peninsula, its relation to the song begins and ends with the coincidence of a shared name. None of the Eagles stayed there, let alone wrote music there. Nor did they have this building in mind when they set down the lyrics to this popular song.

Those who persist in believing the song must be named after an actual building have been known to assert "Hotel California" was the nickname of the Camarillo State Hospital, a state-run psychiatric hospital near Los Angeles which housed thousands of patients across its sixty-year history before closing in 1997. To them, the lyrics seem to fit what a mentally disturbed person would experience upon incarceration in a long-term care facility. The imagery of the song is explained as that person's hallucinations juxtaposed against moments of startling clarity as he realizes where he is. However, by far the most common theme to surface in Hotel California rumors is one that links the song to devil worship. The lyrics (which speak of trying to "kill the Beast" and not having had "that spirit here since 1969") form the bedrock of the various Satan-related theories, but the belief is also fed by the album design. The inner cover is a photograph of people in a courtyard of a Spanish-looking inn. In a balcony above them looms a shadowy figure with arms spread. Many who look at that photo see Anton LaVey, leader of the Church of Satan, and interpret the spread arms as his welcoming the populace below into Satan's trap.

That the people in the picture seem unaware of the gleefully evil figure standing above them only adds to the implicit horror of the scene — the innocents below are oblivious to their having wandered into the house of the Devil. It's wonderful imagery. But it doesn't hold up. The shadowy figure was a woman hired for the photo shoot. When it comes to finding Satan in this song, over the years we've heard the following: The song is a tribute to the place where the Satanic Bible was written. Devil worshippers bought an old church and rechristened "the Hotel California." Some or all of the Eagles were either heavily involved with the occult or were disciples of LaVey. All the album photographs were taken in and around a building that used to be Anton LaVey's headquarters for his Church of Satan. (Which wasn't the case — the album cover was shot at the Beverly Hills Hotel .) In California the 'Church of Satan' is registered under the name 'Hotel California.' Another oddly persistent set of rumors centers on the photos used for the album. On the cover was the image of the approach to a Spanish mission-style hotel at sunset.

Inside was the courtyard scene described above, and on its back was a photo of a black man leaning on a mop in the hotel's lobby. Besides the "Anton LaVey standing on the balcony" whisper, the presence of certain figures in some photos but not in others is attributed to their being ghosts whose spirits were accidentally captured on film, with the presumption being these were guests of the hotel who expired there. Also, the janitor leaning on a mop in the lobby photo has been rumored to be the propped-up corpse of a dead man (shades of Elmer McCurdy , that). In a particularly creepy extension of that rumor, he was murdered by LaVey as a human sacrifice or by the band members. [Collected via e-mail, 2000] On the cover of The Eagles album Hotel California, there is a picture of an abandoned hotel with someone in the doorway. When they took the picture there was noone in the hotel, and when they developed the picture it seemed as if there was noone there. But on the album cover there appeared someone in the doorway and the belief is that a person died (in some form or another...

ranging from overdose to murder) in the hotel before it became abandoned and then appeared in the photo. Another variation I've heard is that they went back & took the picture twice and both times someone appeared in the doorway. I've also been told that the person is only visible on the album cover & not the tape or cd. Besides the four primary rumors (real hotel, mental hospital, devil worship, ghostly images), we've also picked up some unusual ones: The Hotel California was the name of an inn run by cannibals who were in the habit of taking in guests only to serve them up for dinner. The song's closing line ("You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave") seems to have sparked that one. "They stab it with their steely knives" was a swipe at Steely Dan, with whom, according to rumor, the Eagles were having an ongoing feud. "Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air" line — which does refer to the scent of burning marijuana — was seen as a sign the song was about drug addiction. Others have interpreted 'Hotel California' as a code name for cocaine and thus saw both the album and the song itself as a description of a journey into addiction.

The song was about cancer. (We've no idea what prompted that thought.) The truth proves far less satisfying than the myriad rumors that have sprung up around this song. Hotel California is an allegory about hedonism and greed in Southern California in the 1970s. At the time of its release, the Eagles were riding high in the music world, experiencing material success on a frightening level. Though they thoroughly enjoyed the money, drugs, and women fame threw their way, they were disquieted by it all and sought to pour that sense of unease into their music and to warn others about the dark underside of such adulation. In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song "sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in the music business in particular." In another interview that same year, he referred to it as being about a "loss of innocence." The album has as its underlying theme the corruption of impressionable rock stars by the decadent Los Angeles music industry. The celebrated title track presents California as a gilded prison the artist freely enters only to discover that he cannot later escape.

The real Hotel California is not a place; it is a metaphor for the west coast music industry and its effect on the talented but unworldly musicians who find themselves ensnared in its glittering web. Barbara "the golden state of mind" Mikkelson Last updated: 24 April 2014 Sources: 5 Famous Hidden Song Meanings (That Are Total B.S.) 5 Famous Hidden Song Meanings (That Are Total B.S.) NFL Reviewing Touchdown Celebration Penalty Rules Because songwriters worry more about catchy rhymes than deep meaning, song lyrics can be more abstract and esoteric than Jackson Pollock farting chalk dust into a napkin. The problem is that some fans swear that every nonsensical song has some deeper interpretation just waiting to be decoded. That's why so many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true. They're almost always wrong. For instance ... Advertisement 5 "Hotel California" -- It's About Satanism, Right? Whether you know "Hotel California" as "that weird Eagles song" or "that weird devil-worshiping song" probably depends on how religious your parents were.

When " Hotel California " was released in 1976, everyone heard it but no one really knew what it meant. The lyrics talked about trying to "Kill the beast" and "Stab it with their steely knives," and included the ominous line, "You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave." Honestly, it kind of sounds like they're singing about using the reference section in a library full of giant monsters, since those are the books you can technically check out but aren't permitted to remove from the building. Getty "Lookin' it up in the local libraaaary!" That was when someone noticed something odd about the album cover, which features a picture of the band in some luxury hotel courtyard with crowds of people in the background. Above the crowd, looking out from a balcony on the upper left, is a shape whose face you can't fully see, but vaguely looks bald, goateed and threatening.

It Will Pass "Hey, sorry everyone, but is the ice machine down there?" Naturally, people came to the conclusion that the figure on the balcony was none other than Anton LaVey , founder of the Church of Satan, author of The Satanic Bible and proud parent of a son that he freaking named Satan. He even had "Anton + Satan = BFFs" tattooed above his ass. Now that Anton LaVey was found, the lyrics seemed to make sense: "The Beast," "You can never leave" "This could be heaven or this could be hell." "Hotel California" is a song about Anton LaVey converting people to his church of Satanism, from which they could "never leave." The "truth" about the song persists to this day, found in Internet forums , an old issue of The Milwaukee Sentinel and the nothing-if-not-reputable website Jesus Is Savior. Getty They're on to your globe-spanning Satanist conspiracy, Eagles. Actually ... "Hotel California" has pretty much nothing to do with Satanism.

The Eagles have admitted it was a way of speaking out against the greed and hedonism of the music industry in the 1970s (i.e., the drugs, money and women they themselves were drowning in). The photographer responsible for the album cover said the picture expressed "faded loss of innocence and decadence," which is pretentious-speak for "a bunch of assholes standing in a lobby." "What about the face in the window?" you say. "I heard somewhere they didn't even know it was there. Maybe it wasn't Anton LaVey, but really ... a ghost ." Unfortunately not. As Snopes points out: "The shadowy figure was a woman hired for the photo shoot." centrosangiorgio.com That is kind of a lot of hair for a bald man. Yep. The person mistaken for a bald, goatee-sporting antichrist was, in fact, just some lady who had nothing to do with anything and wouldn't even have been memorable were it not for the poor lighting of the photograph and the bafflingly deliberate decision to separate her from the rest of the group, presumably because she showed up late for the shoot and/or got Don Henley's name wrong.

4 Isn't "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" About an Acid Trip? Mention the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" to a group of people and inevitably one of them will start talking about LSD. And, in fact, we're wagering that most of the people in our readership who know the song only know it as "That song that's secretly about doing acid." After all, it's coded right there in the title, right? Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. In 1967, John Lennon alone accounted for nearly 40 percent of the world's LSD consumption. And then you get lyrics like this: "Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain/ Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies/ Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers/ That grow so incredibly high." Getty So incredibly high. Clearly it's alluding to an acid trip. And this isn't exactly a stretch: The Beatles, remember, were a band that wrote songs about an octopus inviting people to the seabed to visit his garden , people who believe they are Arctic blueberry animals and general dick-twisting insanity .

Really, we're not sure that most of what the Beatles did wasn't about goddamned acid. Actually ... Wonderlane Although to be fair, the kid was clearly on acid when he drew it. The Beatles freely admit to using drugs as inspiration for songs, and odds are LSD was one of them. But as for this particular song being a metaphor for the drug itself? Sorry, but no. John Lennon said , "It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? It's not an acid song." This didn't stop the BBC from banning the song , which, considering they were OK with a song about a child who murdered the fuck out of everyone around him with a goddamn hammer , seems a little hypocritical. Getty 3 "Puff the Magic Dragon" Is Totally About Smoking Pot ... Hopefully, you don't need to be told anything about " Puff the Magic Dragon " by Peter, Paul and Mary, but if you do, please click the link.

Even for a children's song, it seems overly bizarre and surreal, so of course it wasn't long after its release in the early 1960s when people started trying to dissect the lyrics: "Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea/ And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee/ Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff/ And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff." People don't hug like that sober. Remember, this was the '60s, a time when pretty much everyone was smoking weed . So with "Puff the Magic Dragon," aside from the obvious " chasing the dragon " metaphor, people figured that's what the song was about. "Puff," i.e., to smoke, "dragon," as in "draggin[g]" or "to take a drag" and "autumn mist" being the fog of pot smoke. "Little Jackie Paper," the little rascal he was, was obviously a reference to rolling papers. Sealing wax, fancy stuff -- bongs, clearly. People have managed to find meaning in pretty much every line in the song, and we must admit, it seems pretty convincing.

And it makes sense that a folk rock trio like Peter, Paul and Mary would aim a song at the rapidly growing hippie movement . Here they are in 2006, looking more like math teachers than doobed-up radicals. Actually ... We're sorry to drag you down to earth like this, but "Puff the Magic Dragon's" writers never intended any hidden meanings. In fact, they were pretty upset about the rumors, claiming the song was about : "... a loss of innocence and having to face an adult world ... I find the fact that people interpret it as a drug song annoying. It would be insidious to propagandize about drugs in a song for little kids." Getty But what about their 1970 hit, "Hops the Frothy, Full-Bodied Llama"? "I can assure you, it's a song about innocence lost ...

What kind of mean-spirited SOB would write a children's song with a covert drug message?" Mary goes on to say that if there were drugs to be mentioned, they'd be mentioned up front: "Believe me, if he wanted to write a song about marijuana, he would have written a song about marijuana." We look forward to hearing from Peter, Paul and Peter's bong soon. Actually kind of hard to argue with that. 2 The "Horse" in "Horse With No Name" HAS to be Heroin ... Even if you've only heard this song once, chances are you know the chorus by heart: "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name/ It felt good to be out of the rain/ In the desert you can't remember your name/ 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain." Getty "My name is Chuck, CHUCK dammit! Nobody fucking listens." Ridiculous grammar aside, obviously this means something, because nobody writes that kind of line unless there's some deeper meaning behind it. And "horse" is a pretty old and well known slang term for heroin , so naturally that's what a bunch of people figured the song was about.

Back in the '70s the song was even banned from several radio stations because of its supposed drug reference. The most common beliefs are that the band (America) is either singing about doing heroin (hallucinations) or about the effects of heroin withdrawal ("After two days in the desert sun/ My skin began to turn red"). Honestly, it all fits together nicely if you think about it: The desert symbolizes the effects of the withdrawal, the horse symbolizes the heroin and the ocean/river at the end symbolizes the clarity of rehabilitation. Perhaps America are skilled wordsmiths that deserve more credit. After all, it's not like their band name is trite and obvious. AMERICAAAAA! Actually ... This couldn't be more pulled from the ass if it were literally torn from the anus of a donkey.

Let's save time here by going straight to Dewey Bunnell , the man who actually wrote the song: "I wanted to capture the imagery of the desert, because I was sitting in this room in England, and it was rainy." Getty "I fingerpainted this desert and then I wrote a song about it." "I had spent a good deal of time poking around in the high desert with my brother when we lived [in California]. And we'd drive through Arizona and New Mexico. I loved the cactus and the heat. I was trying to capture the sights and sounds of the desert, and there was an environmental message at the end. But ... I see now that this anonymous horse was a vehicle to get me away from all the confusion and chaos of life to a peaceful, quiet place." So, back when he was a kid, Dewey was playing around in the desert, found it interesting and years later wrote a song about it with a message about the environment. No heroin-induced hallucinations or allegorical desert, but real, actual desert. Getty 1 But "Turning Japanese" Is Definitely About Masturbation, Right, Guys?

English band the Vapors released a song in 1980 called " Turning Japanese ," much to the chagrin of the current status quo. You see, in addition to being vaguely racist, " turning Japanese " is a slang phrase for masturbation, specifically referring to how one's eyes become screwed up and narrow at the climax of a particularly feverish hand shandy. Now this could easily be a coincidence in name, but listen to the lyrics (or read them, your choice): "I've got your picture of me and you/ You wrote 'I love you' I wrote 'me too'/ I sit there staring and there's nothing else to do." Getty Not pictured: Jergen's. So he has a picture of his girlfriend and finds he has "nothing else to do." "I've got your picture, I've got your picture/ I'd like a million of you all round my cell/ I want a doctor to take your picture/ So I can look at you from inside as well." Getty We're still not seeing the Japanese. He mentions a cell, so this must mean he's in prison. Also, he seems to want an X-ray of her, for some reason. Or photos from her colonoscopy.

"No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women/ No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark/ Everyone around me is a total stranger/ Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger/ That's why I'm turning Japanese/ I think I'm turning Japanese/ I really think so." Getty The Vapors, demonstrating every stage of the mullet life cycle. It would seem that this trail of lyrical bread crumbs leads to but one place: Fistopolis. Population: This guy's wiener. Just take a look at the people interviewed in this video , at about 2 minutes 20 seconds. It's a pretty popular interpretation, and any sites mentioning the song on the Internet eventually come to the same conclusion. Actually ... We really wanted this one to be true, but the only thing this song has in common with spanking it in a darkened room is that it's about feelings of shame and loneliness. If you watch the end of that video linked above, the band finally tells us what it's really about: Hint: Nothing Japanese. "The Americans seemed to think it was written about that. That it was an English phrase about masturbation. It wasn't.

The song was a love song about someone who had lost their girlfriend and was going slowly crazy -- turning Japanese is just all the cliches of our angst... turning into something you never expected to." So no, the Vapors' song isn't about dick-whittling (masturbation/penis joke quota met). It's simply about a man who has taped hundreds of pictures of a woman he's obsessed with around his tiny room as he plots to see her insides, and whose emotions can apparently transform him into a Japanese man like the Incredible Hulk. Getty As illustrated here. See? It makes perfect sense. For more misconstrued meanings, check out 6 Pieces of Music That Mean The Opposite of What You Think and 8 Romantic Songs You Didn't Know Were About Rape . And stop by LinkSTORM to discover the true meaning of "Wonderwall." And don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get sexy, sexy jokes sent straight to your news feed. Do you have an idea in mind that would make a great article? Then sign up for our writers workshop ! Do you possess expert skills in image creation and manipulation? Mediocre? Even rudimentary? Are you frightened by MS Paint and simply have a funny idea?

You can create an infograpic and you could be on the front page of Cracked.com tomorrow! The Eagles Hotel California and Its Mystery - Internet Radio Blog About Everything Related To Free Music Online Internet Radio Blog About Everything Related To Free Music Online The Eagles Hotel California and Its Mystery Online Radio Those who grew up listening to the Eagles may recall when the song Hotel California came out. It wasn’t long that rumors began circulating about the song’s mystical meaning. Before long, religious zealots determined it was written about Satanism, or the church of Satan. The song then became tied in with many other songs considered to be evil, such as Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, and kids were either forced to stop listening or had to listen to it in secrecy. So what does the song Hotel California really represent or what is it about, you may ask? Besides the speculation of it being about Satanism there has been guesses at the theme representing insanity, drug addiction, temptation, and shallow relationships. Members of the band won’t break the song out line by line to explain its meaning but overall say it is about the hedonism of the United States and the destruction of the Southern California music industry.

Don Henley, band member who wrote most of the song adds, “it’s basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about.” In an interview with ZigZag magazine before the album’s release, Henley added “This is a concept album, there’s not way to hide it, but it’s not set in the old West, the cowboy thing, you know. It’s more urban this time…it’s our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States or the whole world, if you will, and try to wake people up and say, “we’ve been okay so far, for 200 years, but we’re gonna have to change if we’re gonna continue to be around.” Despite the explanation there are some who have tried to capitalize on the song’s success. Owner of the hotel in Mexico, Todos Santos, say his hotel was home to the Eagles who wrote Hotel California from its rooms.

Rumor turned into legend. According to Snopes.com, none of the Eagles band members ever stayed in the hotel. Others say Hotel California was the nickname of the Camarillo State psychiatric hospital near Los Angeles. But there have been no facts to verify that either. Other odd rumors about the album include: it’s a place ran by cannibals who only take guests that they serve up for dinner – this is based on the lyrics “You can check in any time you like, but you can never leave.” Or the song is about drug addiction due to the lyrics, “Warm smell of colitis rising through the air”, which does refer to the scent of burning marijuana, and that Hotel California is a code name for cocaine use and the journey into addiction. Then there is the belief that the Hotel California represent satanic master Aleister Crowley’s mansion near Loch Ness, where weird happenings occurred. Crowley’s nickname was “The Beast”. Despite the rumors, the song was a success, and the album Hotel California ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States. And there certainly is no mystery in the fact the album sold over 16 million copies in the U.S.

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For more information please visit Share the post "The Eagles Hotel California and Its Mystery" Hotel California Lyrics by The Eagles from Hotel California On a dark desert highway 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 doorway I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself This could be Heaven or this could be Hell Then she lit up a candle And she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor I thought I heard them say Welcome to the Such a lovely place (background) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Any time of year Any time of year (background) You can find it here You can find it here Her mind is Tiffany twisted She's got the Mercedes bends She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys That she calls friends How they dance in the courtyard Sweet summer sweat There's talk on the street, it sounds so familiar. Great expectations, everybody's watching you. People you meet they all seem to know you, even your old friends treat you like you're something new.

Johnny-come-lately, the new kid in town, everybody loves you, so don't let them down. You look in her eyes, the music begins to play. Hopeless romantics, here we go again. But after a while you're looking the other way. It's those restless hearts that never mend. Johnny-come-lately, the new kid in town, will she still love you when you're not around? There's so many things you should have told her but night after night you're willing to hold her, just hold her tears on your shoulder. There's talk on the street, it's there to remind you that it doesn't really matter which side you're on. You're walking away and they're talking behind you. They will never forget you till somebody new comes along. Where you been lately? There's a new kid in town. Everybody loves him, don't they? Now he's holding her and you're still around, oh my my. There's a new kid in town, just another new kid in town. Oo-hoo, everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town. Oo-hoo, everybody's walking like the new kid in town.

THERE'S A I don't want to hear it THERE'S A I don't want to hear it THERE'S A He was a hard-headed man he was brutally handsome And she was terminally pretty She held him up and he held for ransom In the heart of the cold, cold city He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude They said he was ruthless said he was crude They had one thing in common They were good in bed She said, "Faster, faster. "The lights are turning red." Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane Are you with me so far?

Eager for action hot for the game The calling attraction the drop of the name They knew all the right people They took all the right pills They threw outrageous parties There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face She pretended not to notice she was caught up in the race Out every evening until it was light He was too tired to make it she was too tired to fight about it Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane Everything all the time Life in the fast lane Glowing and burning blinded by thirst They didn't see the stop sign Took a turn for the worse She said, "Listen baby. You can hear the engine rev. "We've up and down this highway, haven't seen a goddamn thing." He said, "Call the doctor.

I think I'm gonna crash." "The doctor say he's coming but you gotta pay in cash." They were rushing down that freeway, Messed around and got lost They didn't care they were just dieing to get off and it was Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane Everything all the time Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane Well, baby, there you stand with your little head down in your hand. Oh my God, you can't believe it's happening again. Your baby's gone and you're all alone and it looks like the end. And you're back out on the street and you're tryin' to remember. How do you start it over? You don't know if you can. You don't care much for a stranger's touch but you can't hold your man. You never thought you'd be alone this far down the line and I know what's been on your mind, you're afraid it's all been wasted time. The autumn leaves have got you thinking about the first time that you fell. You didn't love the boy too much, no no, you just loved the boy too well. Farewell.

So you live from day to day and you dream about tomorrow, oh. And the hours go by like minutes and the shadows come to stay. So ya take a little something to make them go away. And I could have done so many things, baby, if I could only stop my mind from wond'rin' what I left behind and from worryin' 'bout this wasted time. Ooh, another love had come and gone. Ooh, and the years keep rushing on. I remember what you told me before you went out on your own: sometimes to keep it together we got to leave it alone. So you can get on with your search, baby, and I can get on with mine. And maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time. - Don Henley & Glenn Frey What kind of love have you got? You should be home but you're not. A room full of noise and dangerous boys still make you thirsty and hot. I heard about you and that man. There's just one thing I don't understand. You say he's a liar and he put out your fire, how come you still got his gun in your hand? Victim of love, I see a broken heart.

You got your stories to tell. Victim of love, it's such an easy part and you know how to play it so well. Some people never come clean, I think you know what I mean, oh. You're walkin' the wire, pain and desire, lookin' for love in between. Tell me your secrets, I'll tell you mine. This ain't no time to be cool. And tell all your girlfriends, your "been around the world" friends that talk is for losers and fools. Victim of love, I see a broken heart. I could be wrong but I'm not, no, I'm not. Victim of love, we're not so far apart. Show me what kind of love have you got. Victim of love, I see a broken heart. I could be wrong but I'm not. Victim of love, we're not so far apart. What kind of love have you got? Victim of love, you're just a victim of love. I could be wrong but I'm not, no, I'm not. Victim of love, now you're a victim of love. What kind of love have you got? What kind of love have you got?

What kind of love have you got? - Don Felder, Don Henley, John David Souther & Glenn Frey Hi there, how are ya? It's been a long time. Seems like we've come a long way. My, but we learn so slow and heroes they come and they go and leave us behind as if we re's pposed to know why. Why do we give up our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast? And all you wishing well fools with your fortunes, someone should send you a rose with love from a friend. It's nice to hear from you again. And the storybook comes to a close. Gone are the ribbons and bows. Things to remember, places to go, pretty maids all in a row. - Joe Walsh & Joe Vitale When you're out there on your own where your memories can find you. Like a circle goes around you were lost until you found out what it all comes down to. One by one the lonely feelings come. Day by day they slowly fade away. Ooh, the look was in her eyes, you never know what might be found there.

She was dancing right in time and the moves she made so fine like the music that surrounds her. Should I stay or go? I really wanna know. Would I lose or win if I try and love again? Oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again. O-oh o-o-o-oh, I'm gonna try and love again. O-oh o-o-o-oh gonna try and love. Right or wrong, what's done is done. It's only moments that you borrow. But the thoughts will linger on of the lady and her song when the sun comes up tomorrow. Well, it might take years to see through all these tears. Don't let go, when you find it you will know. Oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again. O-oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again. O-oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again.

O-OH O-O-O-OH O-OH O-O-O-OH sometimes lose, sometimes win, sometimes you need a friend O-OH O-O-O-OH, O-OH O-O-O-OH She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air. She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee, just as her father came across the sea. She heard about a place people were smilin', they spoke about the red man's way, how they loved the land. And they came from everywhere to the Great Divide seeking a place to stand or a place to hide. Down in the crowded bars out for a good time, can't wait to tell you all what it's like up there. And they called it paradise, I don't know why. Somebody laid the mountains low while the town got high. Then the chilly winds blew down across the desert, through the canyons of the coast to the Malibu where the pretty people play hungry for power to light their neon way and give them things to do. Some rich man came and raped the land, nobody caught 'em, put up a bunch of ugly boxes and, Jesus, people bought 'em.

And they called it paradise, the place to be, they watched the hazy sun sinking in the sea. You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina just like the missionaries did so many years ago. They even brought a neon sign 'Jesus is Coming', brought the white man's burden down, brought the white man's reign. Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine? 'Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here. We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God. And you can see them there on Sunday morning stand up and sing about what it's like up there. They called it paradise, I don't know why. You call some place paradise - kiss it goodbye.

- Don Henley & Glenn Frey HOTEL CALIFORNIA Lyrics - EAGLES | eLyrics.net Hotel California Lyrics Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 9.10/10 [105 votes] Album: Hotel California / Original Release Date: 1976-12-08 Genre: Rock Song Duration: 6 min 30 sec Eagles - Hotel California On a dark desert highway 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 doorway I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself "This could be heaven or this could be hell" Then she lit up a candle And she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor I thought I heard them say Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year (any time of year) You can find it here Her mind is Tiffany-twisted She got the Mercedes Benz She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends How they dance in

 the courtyard Sweet summer sweat So I called up the Captain "Please, bring me my wine" He said: "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969" And still those voices are calling from far away Wake you up in the middle of the night Just to hear them say Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (such a lovely place) Such a lovely face They're living it up at the Hotel California What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise) Bring your alibis The pink champagne on ice And she said: "We are all just prisoners here of our own device" And in the master's chambers They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember I was running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before "Relax", said the night man "We are programmed to receive You can check out any time you like But you can never leave" Correct these lyrics check amazon for Hotel California mp3 download these lyrics are last corrected by A.Sorentino on November 21, 2016 Record Label(s): 1976 Elektra Entertainment for the United States and WEA International Inc

 for the world outside of the United States Official lyrics by Rate Hotel California by Eagles (current rating: 9.10) Meaning to "Hotel California" song lyrics (26 meanings) 11/30/10,15:05 +5 when you compare this song with the drivel that is force-fed to the public nowadays (cheryl cole, derulo, bieber etc)it makes you despair.

modern songs are written to sell. this was written to live. PileOfDirt 08/23/14,07:42 0 I think the song might be about guilt on one's subconcous. The idea of "you can check out at any time, but you can never leave" makes me think about what has happened in the past can not be undone, and some of those memories you can't forget and they would haunt you forever. Very touching song, though. I love it. unnamed 10/05/12,07:33 0 I love it,, that's great. I dont know whar can say. thanks to this person who wrote it. it has the biggest meaning I've evet listened. Josh B 04/19/12,02:15 0 Last line is my favorite, basically you can go about your life after heroin or drugs but you will always be addicted and unable to go back to the place you were before.

So true brooklyn 04/14/12,16:37 0 This is like a nightmare you can't wake up from...while you are high..lol...but i guess it has many meanings to everyone..all in all its an amazing song!! ddd 04/09/12,19:23 0 bobo i Know that is imatating the eagles cause your comment is not insperational you shoul change your name to bozo emad 06/30/11,06:17 0 welcome to the hotel california is the greatest song ,it reflects the feelings of the people all over the world so its fantastic Hazz 03/11/11,02:37 0 Its hard to geuss where he is,,But the mystery behind makes the song amazing to hear again and again,,,!! Blnsitr 12/11/10,03:52 0 This tune puts todays songs to shame. I heard it when it came out so many times, now I really appreciate it even more now since it is rare to hear it.

BraceFace 12/05/10,11:45 0 I dedicate this song to my Papi(: he loved the eagles and this song is jst absolutely perfect for him(: Load More Song Meanings

Question: In the words of a popular song, from which hotel can 'you check out but never leave'?
Answer: HOTEL CALIFORNIA