The Eagles, a cult American country and folk rock band, was especially popular in the seventies. At that time, their albums were distributed in 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 a hymn of a whole generation.
Like other Eagles songs, Hotel California is loaded with allusions and multi-layered overtones. 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 here have caught an explicit allusion to marijuana, one of the “folk” names of which is foxtail (foxtail). Later, the musicians admitted that they had in mind it. But the riddles didn’t end there, although some fans immediately concluded that the text “Hotel California” Eagles described drug addiction.
Another popular interpretation is also related to drugs: the song is about the California Center for the rehabilitation of drug addicts. There really are a lot of mirrors, the boss was a woman who was seen in intimate relationships with patients, and the conditions of detention were like in a prison cell. You won’t definitely leave this 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 the song “about nothing”. But quite often it happens that it is the spontaneous associative exhaust that turns out to be the deepest in content. There were interpretations, supposedly "Hotel California" Eagles - a song about prison, about a psychiatric hospital, even that our whole life is a prison in which nothing depends on a person.
But this diversity of meanings of the text “Hotel California” Eagles is not limited. The song awaits the fate of many great works: the farther into history, the more legends and conjectures. Actually, each 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 track
The wind ruffled my hair
I smelled high
And he saw some light.
I decided to get to him,
I already fell asleep on the go,
I wanted to get somewhere
To get an overnight stay.
I saw her on the doorstep.
Somewhere a bell sounded
And I thought:
“It may be paradise,
Or maybe hell. ”
And she called for her
And in her hand is a candle.
The corridor led down
In the depths are voices
It seemed to me they were saying:
“We are waiting for you at the California Hotel!
So many lovely faces. Such a nice house.
It is always full of free rooms.
There is always a season. We are always waiting for you. ”
She's crazy about Tiffany
And has his own Mercedes,
She has nice guys here,
He says they are just friends.
Her boys are dancing in the patio
In sweat every day
At first they dance to remember
And then for oblivion.
I called the head waiter
I wanted to order a wine.
He said: “Since sixty-ninth
There is nothing of the kind here. ”
And again the voices rang
In the distance, in muted tones
They said they didn’t let me sleep,
I heard them even in a dream.
“We are waiting for you at the California Hotel,
So many lovely faces. Such a sweet home.
We live in a California hotel.
Oh what a surprise!
Oh what a surprise!
Prove that you have nothing to do with it. "
The ceilings were all mirrored,
Ice flowed under the champagne.
And then she told me:
"Here is the dungeon, and we are slaves."
They themselves created the Master,
He’s waiting for them again for dinner,
They will wave daggers
But they won’t be able to kill him.
I remember how I rushed to the exit
How he tried to break out
How I dreamed to return soon
On the highway, to its path.
But the clerk told me: “It won’t work out,
We work only at the reception.
You can leave your number
You cannot leave the hotel. ”