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I saw a shimmering light.
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I had to stop for the night.
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and she show me the way.
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I thought I heard them say...
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Welcome to the Hotel California,
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such a lovely place,
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such a lovely face.
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There's plenty of room at the Hotel California
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any time of year,
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you can find it here.
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she got the Mercedes Benz.
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she calls friends.
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How they dance in the courtyard,
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sweet summer sweat.
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some dance to forget
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Please bring me my wine.
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He said 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969'
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wake you up in the middle of the night.
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Welcome to the Hotel California,
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What a nice surprise!
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the pink champagne on ice.
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And she said…
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We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.
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they gathered for the feast.
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but they just can't kill the beast.
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Last thing I remember,
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I was running for the door.
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to the place I was before.
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'Relax' said the night man,
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'We are programmed to receive'
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'You can check out any time you like,
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but you can never leave'
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@^__^@ Good night all Tfers

the most popular song about satanism ever!!! a sit is all about the rather creepy Anton La Vey!!

Satan?? I think not!

That interpretation is an urban legend dispelled here:

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.asp

The Eagles's "Hotel California"

Actually, the most accepted theory is that Hotel California talks about "high life" in So. California during the time the song was written. It talks about a being trapped in the high life, and having to deal with many obsessions - especially drugs. Many of the lines mentioned in the other review of this song present on this site are a direct reference to drugs: "We are all prisoners here of our own device" - you choose to live the high life, and then are stuck to them; "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" - as an artist, you can always step away from the spotlight, but you'll always be stuck to it somehow; "this could be heaven or this could be hell" - once more, a reference to the high life, and also to the high during a drug run, and the low afterwards; "And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast The stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast" - a reference to buying drugs for someone, doing the drugs, and still wanting more."

Another explanation here:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1121

in fact i never got any feeling about satanis in listening to this beautiful song, and the reading condotown is offering is very much in line with what I thought it was...

My dad used to play The Eagles' gretatest hits when we had dinner. Not knowing the lyric, I thought this was the lamest song ever (of course, I liked Green Day's Dookie better). Didn't know it has such deep meaning in the lyric. Half the songs written in 70's probably have some reference to drug use, I guess...

In fact the Eagles were asked about this passage in the lyrics in Hotel California and Don Henley answered that he had not got any clue what they were singing about. So there is a lot to be left to imagination I would say.

Great song. I love it.

Thought it was a lovely little melody about a Motel6.....

...until this line

such a lovely place

...kinda invalidated that theory.

thanks for your comment....kha