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Old 12-30-2010, 08:56 PM
 
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This song is a classic and I have always wondered what the meaing of it was...here's what I've always thought...

I thought about it being about California being captivating. California is so atractive, and it just keeps calling you back, and the pretty boys she called friends could have attributed to the vanity sterotyped to the region. The images that start running through your head of Hollywood and sunny beaches and all the dreams that you have.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIURlnIrErE

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Old 12-30-2010, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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Brings back high school memories.

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Old 12-30-2010, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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I always thought it was a lament on the fake nature of the film and music biz. Y'know, the fake, shallow people who make up the strata of society that people from flyover country (that includes San Diego) assume all of us denizens of the GLAMA live in.
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Old 12-30-2010, 09:11 PM
 
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Thanks for that
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Old 12-30-2010, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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wtf? I was being serious.
So was I. You simply have no clue what I'm talking about.
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Old 12-30-2010, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Lowell, MA
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I'M SERIOUS!!!!!

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA

My meaning to this classic tune is: DEATH

on the highway driving thru the light. You are greeted by a beautiful face, they all have the best, paradise, or so it seems!

The voices are calling from far away WELCOME TO THE HOLTEL CALIFORNIA, such a lovely place, such a lovely face. We are all prisioners of our own device, you can check out any time you like but,
YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE....

WELCOME TO HELL!!!!!
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Old 12-30-2010, 09:36 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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I'M SERIOUS!!!!!

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA

My meaning to this classic tune is: DEATH

on the highway driving thru the light. You are greeted by a beautiful face, they all have the best, paradise, or so it seems!

The voices are calling from far away WELCOME TO THE HOLTEL CALIFORNIA, such a lovely place, such a lovely face. We are all prisioners of our own device, you can check out any time you like but,
YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE....

WELCOME TO HELL!!!!!
That's nice. But that's not what Don Henley and Glenn Frey who wrote the lyrics say it means.

If you want to have fun interpreting lyrics, try anything by Yes, especially Close To The Edge.
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Old 12-30-2010, 09:38 PM
 
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This song is a classic and I have always wondered what the meaing of it was...here's what I've always thought...

I thought about it being about California being captivating. California is so atractive, and it just keeps calling you back, and the pretty boys she called friends could have attributed to the vanity sterotyped to the region. The images that start running through your head of Hollywood and sunny beaches and all the dreams that you have.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIURlnIrErE
I think it's more about the dark side of the music business than about California. California just happens to be where the music business was and is full of materialistic money hungry people in the biz.
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Old 12-30-2010, 09:42 PM
 
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"Don Henley and Glen wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA... and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs."

He also stated that the band refutes and claims that the song has anything to do with satanic churches or mental hospitals, etc.

"colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a desert flower, also known as Antelope sage or Colita de Rata, Don Henley has made many references to the "heady desert flower"

Also "Killing the beast" has nothing to do with a drug addiction. The line "stab it with their steely knives But they just can't kill the beast" is a reference as a playful nod to Steely Dan in return for the Eagles being referred to in the song "Everything you did" as "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening".

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Old 12-30-2010, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Out in the Badlands
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Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Eagles
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