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Who doesn t love this song? How many times have you listened to the cathcing melody, absentmindely singing along to the lyrics? I know I ve done it a million times. Then it occured to me that song lyrics are just as much a form of poetry as any poem written by Keats or Shakespeare. So why not try to figure out what the lyrics really mean? This, ladies and gentlemen, is what I ve come up with.
"Hotel California" is a song written by the well known American rock-band, disneyland paris hotels Eagles . The song was written and released as a single in early 1977, and is one of The Eagles' best songs. In fact, Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the year for "Hotel California".
There's disneyland paris hotels more than one way to make an understanding of this song, it has to be done individually. For me, this song is about a drug addict and the feelings and problems he or she faces every day. This song is an excellent description of exactly that – there's so much prejudice in today's community, and it might be easy to forget (when we're talking about someone with drug addiction) that we're dealing with human beings with feelings, thoughts, families etc.
Don Henley, one of the band-members of The Eagles, said this about the song: "Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce." They mean to say that this song is really disneyland paris hotels about materialism, and the problems materialism can cause.
The rhymes are there to maintain the rhythm, which is important in a song; otherwise it would be difficult to sing. Also, it's easier to remember something if it rhymes, because of the repetitive sounds. That may be one of the reasons disneyland paris hotels why this song is so well known – people remember it.
In this particular stanza, repetition is combined with strong words to really make the listener comprehend disneyland paris hotels what these persons are going through, and thereby make the listener to feel sympathy for them.
The choice of words in this text is very different from most texts – they're very strong and symbolic. "Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air," refers to the smell of smoking marihuana. "Colitas" is Spanish slang, and the actual meaning disneyland paris hotels is "the butt of a joint."
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Materialism, to own many expensive things, such as cars and jewellery, may seem like the ideal life, but the truth about materialism is twisted and bent into something beautiful and tempting. It can become an obsession, and in an attempt to earn money fast, some people become drug dealers, something which creates disneyland paris hotels unnecessary problems for the community.
The person in this song is trapped at a hotel, or brothel, which is probably owned by a drug dealer. This makes it even harder for the drug addict to leave, especially since this person may owe the pusher a great deal of money. This is explained in these sentences; "And she said We are all just prisoners here, of our own device disneyland paris hotels " and " We are programmed disneyland paris hotels to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! ".
That says something about how hard it is to change, once you're addicted to something as strong as dope. The feast in this song is when everyone at the hotel (with drug addiction) gathers to receive dope from the dealer; "And in the master s chambers, They gathered for the feast."
I think the sentence "They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can t kill the beast" describes the pain (the beast) they're trying to get rid of by using dope, or the addiction, which is like an endless thirst; it only gets stronger and stronger, and after a while the drug addict needs more dope to get the same effect.
According to myself disneyland paris hotels and my interpretation, I have to say that the theme of this song is drug addiction and drug abusers. That's why I think The Eagles are trying to make us (the listeners) understand more about what a person with a drug related problem goes through. The strong lyrics give the song a bitter and sad mood.
I really like to listen to this song – the lyrics are strong, there's rhythm and a catchy melody – and I especially enjoy listening to the refrain and the end. This song has made an impression on me, which is the reason why I chose to analyze it.