Hey I need some help to understand a song, and is Hotel California from the Eagles. someone can explain to me?

Hey I need some exploanation about the song of the Eagles, called Hotel California, I need to know what is the real teme of this song, what is the message that express.Hey I need some help to understand a song, and is Hotel California from the Eagles. someone can explain to me?
';This is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: ';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.';





On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, ';everyone wants to know what this song means.'; Henley replied: ';I know, it's so boring. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about.';





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The music for Hotel California probably comes from the song ';We Used To Know'; - by Jethro Tull. The Eagles toured with Jethro Tull just before they came out with their song. See:





http://youtube.com/watch?v=EgO7MamJnqM





The song is credited as being written by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. It was released in 1976 by the Eagles.





There are many fantastic ideas about the meaning of the lyrics of the song. These theories usually pick one or two isolated items from the entire song. Almost all songs tell a story, and as such all of the lyrics should contribute to the whole. Hotel California is no different.





The meaning of the lyrics are that the song is a description of the journey from ‘Need’ to ‘Love and Marriage’ to ‘Divorce’ and ultimately to the impossibility of regaining the life and happiness of the pre-divorce state.





Initially the traveler is feeling the need of a relationship “My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night.” The traveler meets his love and gets married “There she stood in the doorway. I heard the mission bell.” A marriage commitment opens up the possibility of happiness but, also, the traveler is aware that he is vulnerable to the possibility of intense unhappiness. “And I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell.”





Unfortunately the marriage dissolves and as the divorce approaches his former love becomes obsessed with money “Her mind is Tiffany-twisted” where “Tiffany” refers to the very expensive New York Store, Tiffany %26amp; Co.. With the divorce there is the division of property- “she got the Mercedes Benz.” After the breakup when he sees her with any guys she reassures him that the “pretty, pretty boys” are just “friends.” In this new world of being single the other singles he meets do their “dance in the courtyard.” of life. They generally fall into one or the other of two groups. There are those who can’t stop talking about their Ex. “Some dance to remember” and there are those who don’t want to say anything at all about their past marriage “some dance to forget.”





Now in this world of being divorced he longs to return the pre-divorced state of happiness “So I called up the captain, please bring me my wine” but he finds that his happiness (wine) is now irrevocably in the past “we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine.”





Deep into the post-divorce single’s scene with “mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice” he is reminded that it is his actions that got him into the prison of being divorced, “we are all just prisoners here, of our own device.” And, yet, he and others want this divorce nightmare to be over, so- “they stab it with their steely knives, but” they can’t become pre-divorced, “they just can’t kill the beast.” Now frustrated he panics and is, “running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before,” when he was married, but he is brought up short when the night man informs him that, “You can checkout any time you like,” (commit suicide) “but you can never leave” (become pre-divorced).





There are two choruses in the song and each mention the “Hotel California.” This reference is to the environment in California around the time the song was written. California was experiencing the highest divorce rate in the nation. Each chorus has lines that remember his past marriage “such a lovely place” and his past lover “such a lovely face.” The first chorus indicates that there can always be more divorces “Plenty of room at the Hotel California, any time of year, you can find it here.” The second chorus points out that, as a part of trying to understand how you got divorced, you will always “bring your alibis…”





For a really good rendition see:





http://youtube.com/watch?v=HAM1g0oX4OE
With all of the interviews that Don Henley has done, he has never ever given a straight answer. Nobody really knows what it means, everyone has their opinions on it. I think a whore house to be honest with you:





';Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way


There were voices down the corridor,


I thought I heard them say...';


';She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends


How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat...';


';Mirrors on the ceiling,


The pink champagne on ice


And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device...';





Although, My boyfriend thinks it could be about drugs. There is a lot of thought going around on this good question. There is no true answer in my opinion. There is so many roads you can take with this song. What do you think its about? ;-) I like the mystery of this song though. Its like they did want anyone to know! hahaha Good Luck





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Many have said it's about a cult out in Cali.';You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave'; meaning once you sell your soul you can't get it back. Something like that anyway. I've only heard about 300 stories about it. That one probably makes the most sense.





Haha I like Davids answer!
The general theme is about the fast paced hedonistic California lifestyle the band members were living at the time, and the feeling of being trapped by the desires for more of it, more women, Drugs, and Alcohol.
why does it have to have a meaning its just a great song listen to it,
it's pretentious babbeling by spoiled rich boys from california
My GUESS is that it's about an insane asylum