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The song I'm going to talk about is Hotel California, by the eagles.

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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 face <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Plenty of room at the hotel california <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Any time of year, you can find it here

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> So I called up the captain, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> ’please bring me my wine’ <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’ <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> And still those voices are calling from far away, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Wake you up in the middle of the night <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Just to hear them say...

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Welcome to the hotel california <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Such a lovely place <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Such a lovely face <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> They livin’ it up at the hotel california <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Mirrors on the ceiling, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> The pink champagne on ice <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’ <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> And in the master’s chambers, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> They gathered for the feast <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> The stab it with their steely knives, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> But they just can’t kill the beast

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Last thing I remember, I was <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> Running for the door <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> I had to find the passage back <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> To the place I was before <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> ’relax,’ said the night man, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> We are programmed to receive. <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> You can checkout any time you like, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"> But you can never leave!

__what do the lyrics say__

There are many interpretations to these lyrics, some say it talks about death, some about love and some about drug addiction. I'll be commenting the lyrics as if they talked about the addiction to drugs.

The lyrics make various references to drug addiction,<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’. This clearly talks about how a drug addict is prisoner, he can't escape, from drug addiction. This idea is repeated through all the song, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">You can checkout any time you like, <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">But you can never leave! . here we also can see the intention of the drug addict to stop (you can checkout anytime you like), but finally he can't escape addiction.

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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">On a dark desert ......, cool wind in my hair <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Warm smell of ......., rising up through the air <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Up ....... in the distance, I saw a shimmering light <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">My ...... grew heavy and my sight grew dim <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">I had to stop for the ......... <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">There she stood in the .........; <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">I heard the ........... bell <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">And I was ............ to myself, <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">’this could be .......... or this could be .........’ <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">Then ..... lit up a candle and she showed me the way <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">There were voices down the ........., <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">I ......... I heard them say...