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[Cutty Flam]

 

[MrS]

A hotel in California

 

[I_D]

It's about a pretty girl in a haunted hotel (in California).

It is likely a metaphor for something like seeking fame, and never being able to leave the limelight, or something to that effect.

 

[kretos]

about a serial killer in a asylum remembering the days when he lived in california and used to hire prostitutes and take them to a hotel, sleeps with them and kills them

 

[DeepBreath87]

I’m pretty sure it’s a metaphor about the consequences of chasing and achieving success in the entertainment business.

 

[Happosai]

Overplayed to the point where it's been off playlists of mine for over 20-years.

It's about the band members overall feel of the "good life" and times in Southern California under heavy cocaine influence during the early 1970's. I think the band had stated that a few times.

 

[synchronicity]

The great thing about artistic expression is that things can mean innumerable things. (I hate it when artists - of any kind - explain away the magic that is possible in interpretation.)

 

[Prison Mike]

Probably about the end of a wedding just before come on Eileen

 

[haxan7]

I’m gonna take a wild guess and say drugs

 

[Tschumi]

I think it's about the toxic elements of the entertainment industry in california. Including implicit addiction. I mean... Yeah, pretty clear on that...

ps. can i just say, knowing that these guys sang backing vocals for 'desperados under the eaves' and warren zevon's first album, that fact alone makes their actual band even more badass.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I think it's about metaphysical and the constraints of a time space universe.

 

[Ballthyrm]

Probably about a lunatic that crashed his car while under the influence and dream all that stuff while slowly bleeding out in the car.

 

[Kraz]

The aim of religion

 

[Fret Runner]

There's plenty of room at the Hotel California, but you can't afford the rent (can't afford the rent) so better bring a tent.

seems to be that it's about the dreamed of big living of being rich and surrounded by drugs/sex and living a life of excess.
Only to realise too late that it has turned you into a monster, or worse, a Californian. Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnn

 

[Patrick S.]

The great thing about artistic expression is that things can mean innumerable things. (I hate it when artists - of any kind - explain away the magic that is possible in interpretation.)

Is Deckard an android though?

 

[Sorcerer]

I think its about a guy in a mental hospital, the beginning is him being driven to said hospital, the middle is about the staff, and the end is about him trying to unsuccessfully escape.

 

[kunonabi]

Pretty sure the song is about me. Maybe that makes me sound vain but whatever.