Hotel California Eagles, content and translation

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

Like other Eagles songs, the California Hotel is loaded with allusions and multilayered overtones. There are many interpretations of the song. Already at the very beginning of the text, translators and interpreters stumble on the word colitas ("tails"). Many have caught here an unambiguous hint of marijuana, one of the "folk" names of which is foxtail (foxtail). Later the musicians confessed that they had in mind it. But the riddles did not end there, although some fans immediately concluded that the text "Hotel California" Eagles described the drug.

Another popular treatment is also related to drugs: the song refers to the California drug rehabilitation center. There really are many mirrors, the boss was a woman seen in intimate relationships with patients, and conditions of detention - as in a prison cell. Of such an institution you can not escape, not only in a symbolic, but also in a literal sense.

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 it often happens that the spontaneous associative exhaust is the deepest in content. There were interpretations, allegedly the "Hotel California" Eagles - a song about the prison, a psychiatric hospital, even that our whole life is a prison in which nothing depends on a person.

But this variety of meanings of the text "Hotel California" Eagles is not exhausted. The fate of many great works awaits the song: the further in history, the more legends and conjectures. Actually, every person with a little knowledge of 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 blew my hair,

I smelled the buzz

And he saw a light.

I decided to get to him,

I was already falling asleep,

I wanted to get somewhere,

To get a night's lodging.

I saw her on the threshold.

Somewhere the bell sounded,

And I thought to myself:

"This may be a paradise,

Or maybe hell. "

And she called to her,

And she has a candle in her hand.

The corridor led down,

In the depths - voices,

It seemed to me, they say:

"We are waiting for you at the hotel" California "!

So many lovely faces. Such a nice house.

There are always full rooms here.

It's always season. We are always waiting for you. "

She's crazy about Tiffany

And has a Mercedes,

She has nice guys here,

He says they're just friends.

Her guys are dancing in the patio

In sweating every day,

At first they dance to remember,

And afterwards for forgetting.

I called the head waiter,

I wanted to order some wine.

He said: "From the sixty-ninth

There is nothing like this here. "

And again the voices rang,

In the distance, in subdued tones,

They said they did not give you any sleep,

I heard them even in a dream.

"We are waiting for you at the hotel" California "

So many lovely faces. Such a nice house.

We live in the hotel "California".

Oh, what a surprise!

Oh, what a surprise!

Prove that you have nothing to do with. "

The ceilings were entirely mirrored,

Ice was streaming under the champagne.

And then she said to me:

"There is a prison here, and we are slaves."

They themselves created the Master,

He's waiting for them again for dinner,

They will wave their daggers,

But they will not be able to kill him.

I remembered how I rushed to the exit,

As he tried to escape,

How I dreamed of returning soon

On the highway, to your path.

But the porter told me: "It will not work,

We work only at the reception.

You can leave your number,

You can not leave the hotel. "