1. A song made famous by the Eagles; one of the most recognizable songs of their career.
2. One of the few songs to give me nightmares as a child due to the imagery the song induced.
3. One of my all-time favorite songs by ANY band.
To me, the song represents a first time using drugs that goes HORRIBLY wrong.
Allow me to clarify. In the first verse, the lines "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" is where he meets the woman who introduces him to this new drug and convinces him to use it. The next lines "Then she lit up a candle / And she showed me the way" is where she actually helps him to use this drug, as he's unfamiliar with it.
In the third verse, the high takes a fast turn for the worse. "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" marks where the hallucinations take a darker, frightening turn.
"Last thing I remember / I was running for the door" is his natural reaction of trying to escape the horror. "I had to find the passage back / To the place I was before" is the futility of trying to escape the place his mind was dragged to.
"'Relax,' said the night man / 'We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave'" are the final lines to the song, and feed into the paranoia the drugs have induced along with the hallucination.
2. One of the few songs to give me nightmares as a child due to the imagery the song induced.
3. One of my all-time favorite songs by ANY band.
To me, the song represents a first time using drugs that goes HORRIBLY wrong.
Allow me to clarify. In the first verse, the lines "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" is where he meets the woman who introduces him to this new drug and convinces him to use it. The next lines "Then she lit up a candle / And she showed me the way" is where she actually helps him to use this drug, as he's unfamiliar with it.
In the third verse, the high takes a fast turn for the worse. "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" marks where the hallucinations take a darker, frightening turn.
"Last thing I remember / I was running for the door" is his natural reaction of trying to escape the horror. "I had to find the passage back / To the place I was before" is the futility of trying to escape the place his mind was dragged to.
"'Relax,' said the night man / 'We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave'" are the final lines to the song, and feed into the paranoia the drugs have induced along with the hallucination.
by schizonephilim October 26, 2018
Get the Hotel Californiamug. None of the definitions on here are correct about hotel california. Well some are SORT OF correct, but the real story behind hotel california is, before 1969 the one hotel california that they were talking about was a satanist church. If you have ever seen the actual cover of the original album you can see the "leader" of the satanist church anton levey.
Hotel California, One of the popular songs by The Eagles, was about a sort of things. 1. It had references to drugs 2. It had references to sex
and finally
3. The song was about a satanist church that was turned into a hotel in 1969.
and finally
3. The song was about a satanist church that was turned into a hotel in 1969.
by TheSweetChild December 13, 2006
Get the Hotel Californiamug. by Assweepay January 5, 2007
Get the hotel californiamug. An elite group of computer users in Las Vegas, Nevada responsible for any number of technical, graphical, & philosophical advancements over the last 10 years.
by Anonymous January 5, 2007
Get the Hotel Californiamug. by wouldaben December 18, 2010
Get the Hotel California Girlmug. A term describing when a long term couple breaks up, but can't stop getting back together multiple times. Derived from the line in the Eagles song, "You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave."
My roomate keeps wanting to get back with his ex-girlfriend, but I keep telling him, "Come on dude, check out of the Hotel California once and for all!"
How long have they been going out? It seems like forever! Naw, they're broken up but I think they're gonna start a Hotel California Relationship now.
How long have they been going out? It seems like forever! Naw, they're broken up but I think they're gonna start a Hotel California Relationship now.
by Johnny B Camaro October 7, 2005
Get the hotel california relationshipmug. “Yo kyle what happened to you and that slut”
“I went hotel california on her and now we got six kids”
“I went hotel california on her and now we got six kids”
by JobieWanKenobi May 10, 2019
Get the Hotel Californiamug.