California Hotel Eagles, content and translation

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The Eagles were an iconic American country and folk rock band that was especially popular in the 1970s. At that time, their albums were replicated in the tens of millions. The total release of the group's collections - sixty-five million copies - is comparable to the circulation of The Beatles. The group also has its own signature song: like the great hits of other monsters - "Yesterday", "Child In Time", "Stairway To Heaven" - "Hotel California" Eagles became the anthem of an entire generation.

Like other Eagles songs, "Hotel California" is loaded with allusions and layered subtexts. There are many interpretations of the song. Already at the very beginning of the text, translators and interpreters stumble over the word colitas (“tails”). Many have caught here an unambiguous allusion to marijuana, one of the "folk" names of which is foxtail (foxtail). Later, the musicians admitted that they had in mind it was her. But the mysteries didn't end there, although some fans immediately deduced that Eagles' Hotel California text described a drug den.

Another popular interpretation is also related to drugs: inThe song is about the California Drug Rehab Center. There really are a lot of mirrors, the boss was a woman seen in intimate relationships with patients, and the conditions of detention were like in a prison cell. You definitely won’t leave such an institution, not only in a symbolic, but also in a literal sense.

The musicians themselves said that they did not try to put deep meaning into the text, on the contrary, they wanted to compose a song “about nothing”. But quite often it happens that it is the spontaneous associative exhaust that turns out to be the most profound in content. There were interpretations, allegedly "Hotel California" Eagles - a song about a prison, about a psychiatric hospital, even about the fact that our whole life is a prison in which nothing depends on a person.

But the variety of meanings of the text "Hotel California" Eagles is not limited to this. The song is waiting for the fate of many great works: the further into history, the more legends and conjectures. Actually, every person who speaks a little English can try to make a translation on their own and find their only correct explanation of the content.

Eagles, Hotel California, translation:

On a deserted and dark road

The wind ruffled my hair, I smelled high

And saw some light.

I decided to get to him, I was already falling asleep on the go, I wanted to go somewhere, To get a bed for the night.

I saw her on the doorstep.

Somewhere a bell sounded, And I thoughtme:

This might be heaven, Or maybe hell.”

And she called for her, And she has a candle in her hand.

The corridor led down, In the depths - voices, I thought they were saying:

We are waiting for you at the California Hotel!

So many cute faces. Such a nice home.

It's always full of empty rooms.

It's always season here. We are always waiting for you.”

She's crazy about Tiffany

And has his own Mercedes, She has Nicefellas here, Says they are just friends.

Her boys are dancing on the patio

Sweating everyday, At first they dance to remember

And then to forget.

I called the head waiter, I wanted to order wine.

He said, Since 69

There is nothing like this here.”

And again the voices rang, Far away, in muted colors, They said they didn't let me sleep, I heard them even in my sleep.

"We are waiting for you at the Hotel California", So many cute faces. Such a sweet home.

We live at the Hotel California.

Oh, what a surprise!

Oh, what a surprise!

Prove you're in the wrong."

The ceilings were completely mirrored, Ice flowed under the champagne.

And then she said to me:

"This is a dungeon, and we are slaves."

They created the Master themselves, He is waiting for them again for dinner, They will swing daggers, But they can't kill him.

I remember running to the exit

Trying to get out, How I dreamed of returning as soon as possible

On the highway, on your way.

But the porter told me: “It won’t come out, We are open only for receptions.

You can leave your room

You can't leave the hotel.