Welcome to the best site on the Internet for information about the song Hotel California by Eagles. We provide you with insight into the history of the song, lyrics and of course interpretations and encourage you to add your own information in the end to add your opinion of the meaning of Hotel California.
History
Hotel California is an album released by the rock band Eagles in 1976. The album was the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon who, according to an interview in 2008 with Don Felder, wanted to spend more time taking care of his health. Leadon was replaced with Joe Walsh who debuted on the album.
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Writing credits of the song are attributed to Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey.
The album was – and actually still is – a major commercial hit having sold more than 16 million copies in the United States alone.
Hotel California is the name of the title track of the album and released as a single in 1977 topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts for one week in May 1977. And it is this song that this site is about.
Cover
hotel california cover
The hotel in the album cover is the Beverly Hills Hotel which is frequented by Hollywood stars.
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Hotel California [180 Gram Vinyl]
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Lyrics
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
’this could be heaven or this could be hell’
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say…
Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here
Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the captain,
’please bring me my wine’
He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say…
Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
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
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
Band Quotes
Don Henley, Dutch ZigZag magazine
This is a concept album, there’s no way to hide it, but it’s not set in the old West, the cowboy thing, you know. It’s more urban this time (. . . ) It’s our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say ‘We’ve been okay so far, for 200 years, but we’re gonna have to change if we’re gonna continue to be around.’
Don Felder, Howard Stern Show, 2008
“Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night… you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that… what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA… and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs.”
Glenn Frey
That record explores the under belly of success, the darker side of Paradise. Which was sort of what we were experiencing in Los Angeles at that time. So that just sort of became a metaphor for the whole world and for everything you know. And we just decided to make it Hotel California. So with a microcosm of everything else going on around us.
“Don and I heard [Felder's demo] tape and said, ‘Gosh, this is like Spanish reggae rock, this is really a bizarre mix of musical influences, this is great.’ The music was entirely written by Felder, and Don and I wrote the chorus, and Don wrote most of the verses.” (1988)
“The song began as a demo tape, an instrumental by Don Felder. He’d been submitting tapes and song ideas to us since he’d joined the band, always instrumentals, since he didn’t sing. But this particular demo, unlike many of the others, had room for singing. It immediately got our attention. The first working title, the name we gave it, was ‘Mexican Reggae.’
“For us, ‘Hotel California’ was definitely thinking and writing outside the box. We had never written any song like it before. Similar to ‘Desperado,’ we did not start out to make any sort of concept or theme album. But when we wrote ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ and started working on ‘Hotel California’ and ‘New Kid In Town’ with J.D., we knew we were heading down a long and twisted corridor and just stayed with it. Songs from the dark side — the Eagles take a look at the seamy underbelly of L.A. — the flip side of fame and failure, love and money. “‘They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast’ was a little Post-It back to Steely Dan. Apparently, Walter Becker’s girlfriend loved the Eagles, and she played them all the time. I think it drove him nuts. So, the story goes that they were having a fight one day, and that was the genesis of the line, ‘turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening’ in ‘Everything You Did,’ from Steely Dan’s The Royal Scam album. During the writing of ‘Hotel California,’ we decided to volley. We just wanted to allude to Steely Dan rather than mentioning them outright, so ‘Dan’ got changed to ‘knives,’ which is still, you know, a penile metaphor. Stabbing, thrusting, etc. “Almost everybody in my business can write music, play guitar, play piano, create chord progressions, etc., but it’s only when you add lyrics and melody and voices to these things that they take on an identity and become something beyond that sum of the individual parts. I remember that Henley and I were listening to the “Hotel California” demo tape together on an airplane, and we were talking about what we would write and how we wanted to be more cinematic. We wanted this song to open like an episode of The Twilight Zone — just one shot after another. “I remember De Niro in The Last Tycoon. He’s got this scene, and he’s talking to some other people in his office. He speaks to them: “The door opens…the camera is on a person’s feet…he walks across the room…we pan up to the table… he picks up a pack of matches that says ‘The Such-And-Such Club’ on it… strikes a match and lights a cigarette…puts it out… goes over to the window… opens the shade… looks out… the moon is there… what does it mean? Nothing. It’s just the movies.’Hotel California’ is like that. We take this guy and make him like a character in The Magus, where every time he walks through a door there’s a new version of reality. We wanted to write a song just like it was a movie. This guy is driving across the desert. He’s tired. He’s smokin’. Comes up over a hill, sees some lights, pulls in. First thing he sees is a really strange guy at the front door, welcoming him: “Come on in.” Walks in, and then it becomes Fellini-esque — strange women, effeminate men, shadowy corridors, disembodied voices, debauchery, illusion… Weirdness. So we thought, ‘Let’s really take some chances. Let’s try to write in a way that we’ve never written before.’ Steely Dan inspired us because of their lyrical bravery and willingness to go ‘out there.’ So, for us, ‘Hotel California’ was about thinking and writing outside the box.” (Very Best Liner Notes 2003)
“‘The Last Resort’ is probably one of the biggest pieces of musical literature we ever tackled. We wanted to pull the whole idea together, so we thought of this girl from Providence and we took her on an epic journey across America, through Colorado, where they laid the mountains low, through California, where they polluted the sea, to Hawaii, where they were ruining paradise. Really that song embodies the whole spirit of Hotel California and is Don Henley’s greatest lyrical achievement to this day. He wrote 90 percent of the words to that song, and it’s a classic. It’s slightly depressing, but it’s a classic.” (1988)
“As far as I was concerned, being visual — to start with a picture — was the first and most important aspect of lyric-writing. You can look at the list of Eagles songs from ‘Take It Easy’ through ‘Hotel California,’ and in the first four lines, we put you someplace: ‘On a dark desert highway…’ or, ‘I’m runnin’ down the road, tryin’ to loosen my load…’. Openings of songs are very important, so I’ve always considered myself to be a visual songwriter.” (The Oregonian 1993)
On South of Sunset
“I played at the tailgate party for the Superbowl last January [1992]. And some people at Paramount saw me up on the stage doing The Heat Is On. They were having trouble casting this character Cody McMahon – they’d been looking for people for a couple months – and then some guy had a few beers too many and said, ‘How ‘bout Glenn Frey?” (Arsenio Hall Interview 1992)“This is ‘Hotel California’ on film.” (1993)
Meaning
Hotel California has seen many different interpretations over the year. The band, more than once, confirmed that the song was about excess and materialism. Don Henley for instance said in the London Daily Mail “It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce”
The underlying theme of the song is the corruption and decadence of the Los Angeles music industry which is described as a prison that artists seek and freely enter [And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’] to later discover that they cannot escape it anymore [But you can never leave!]
Colitas is a Spanish word translated to Henley by the Eagles Mexican-American road manager meaning “Little Buds,” and is a reference to marijuana.
What Hotel California does not mean
- it is not a reference to Satan or the Church of Satan
- it is not about a real hotel with the (nick)name Hotel California
- Hotel California is not a mental hospital or prison
Resources
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Eliot, Marc. To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles
, Da Capo Press, 2004
- Hoskyns, Barney. Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
- Hotel California – Sheet Music – (Eagles, Guitar/TAB/Vocal)
- Wikipedia entry about the song
- Wikipedia Band History
- Glenn Frey Online
so strange!!!!
I have listened to the song many times over the years, the song seems like a good old song written the way the band said. Just like the beatles they had to hide what their songs were about, after listening to it again it hit me that the song was really a perfect discription of a interesting but scary salvia extract experience. the hidden meaning of coletus is it means salvia smoke maybe.? The song is so clear to me it blows my mind. several days before I had written about a salvia experience I had. they have hidden it beautifully, unless you have had salvia you wouldn’t ever know what they really were singing about.
I. Believe that the song represents. One of the band members having been in rehab and that’s why the band took a four month rest just my opinion! If anyone disagrees just call me at 14233647385
Still, I think the guys are not 100% forthcoming about the drug use references in the song. People who have run cocaine (i.e., injected… IV… not snorted, not smoked in any form, not meth… just cocaine) can see very specific references. It’s as clear as a mission bell… an “ear ringing” shot. Your ears actually ring. You light a candle, like all kinds of injecting junkies, to melt the stuff in water… holding a spoon over the flame. You call up the pusher late at night. Those voices… the high… call you forever after, even if you’ve “quit”. Typically, when money is not short, everyone gathers in one room for the cooking and shooting. They stab their veins with steely points about once every half hour or so, trying to keep the high. Cocaine is the quintessential illustration for excess in moneyed circles. It leads the theme of the song.
its simple the meaning is that he must of had a dream that he was in hells with a girl that had a mersadies Benz and that there was the shimmering light that humans will some day fight the beast witch is proudly the deviled.
I THOUGHT THIS SONG TALKED ABOUT HOW LOST SOULS IN THIS WORLD. I THINK I LIKE THE SONG BETTER THAT WAY. =)
In my opinion
and I am not religious
the song is about ………..
The moment of death
You find yourself driving down a highway no memories
You are drawn into a welcoming hotel because you know you are tired…..
You enter…..welcomed in……you could never return….This is your judgment
……You realize others control you now and forever……”SOMETHING LIKE THAT!”
Cool
I was eight and my family was living in California when this album was released. The album was one of everyone’s favourites, parents and kids, but the title song with its odd lyrics and spooky sound was somewhat terrifying to hear, especially played at full volume on the massive audiophile stereo system my father had… oh, and did I mention we lived in a house everyone thought was haunted, and my bedroom was over the cellar — which no one would dare venture into (you can never leave!) Nice to look back as a guy in his 40s and know the song wasn’t intended to be as spooky as it seemed… althought the house certainly was!
I don’t think you are correct in saying that the song is not about Satan, or Satanism. There is so much religious imagery in the song that this cannot be dismissed out of hand. Whether the religious imagery is itself a metaphor for the darker side of materialism and capitalism I’ll leave to others to comment on, but I would like to point out some of the specific religous references in the song.
I heard the mission bell … this could be heaven or hell – Mission bells are the bells in Missionary churches. Last Resort cetainly discusses the rape and destruction of indigenous culture in the name of God, and the missionary chruches had a role in this. The protaginist is about to have a religious experience, but of what kind ?
She lit up a candle – again Catholic ritual – she showed me the way ( to live – religion is certainly didactic )
’please bring me my wine’
He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’ – More Catholic ritual. The eucarist, where believers are invited to drink red wine as being the blood of Christ, as Jesus implored his disciples to do at the last supper. The captain in the song is clearly saying that they have not had the (holy) spirit here since 1969 – that the place is no longer a place of worship of the holy trinity. I don’t know if the date 1969 has any special meaning – but certainly in the Don McLean song American Pie ( an even more cryptic song than Hotel California ) the Rolling Stones’ Altomont concert of 1969 where the Hells Angels killed a concert goer is portrayed as a Satanistic rite. ( No ANGEL born in HELL could break that Satan’s spell)
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
The beast is clearly the anti-Christ as described in the Book of Revelations.
The protaginst has entered what he thought was a church, has come across some debauchery, and has realised that it is a place of devil worship. He attempts to flee but finds that he can never leave – but is condemned to eternal damnation. Calling this place Hotel California could then be seen to be a negative comment on the debauchery of Hollywood and the music industry that is based there.
The religious imagery is so prevalent in the song, to not include it in a reading of the song’s ‘meaning’ seems to be a little short sighted.
PS: I have enjoyed reading your site, some of the quotes from Eagles were new to me, so thank you.
PPS: Mercedes Benz ( not Bends )
Patrick Byrne I like the way u think!
I thought it was about a man who was trapped inside his dreams. :/ I guess meanings to songs are different to different people.
Hotel California is about The Record Plant on West 3rd St in LA. That is the studio where that album was recorded. A couple of references… Rose was the studio manager. She drove a Mercedes Benz. She had lots of gay friends that hung around the studio… which was located near West LA. Pink Champagne on ice refers to the time that Rod Stewart unloaded the fire extinguisher in Studio B. They gathered for the feast and stabbed it with their steely knives was cutting cocaine on a mirror with a razor blade. Not having that spirit here since 1969 refers to the band “Spirit” who last recorded in that studio in 1969. There are other references… but you get the idea.
My names anthony , im 17 and I found the meaning from my step dad who said went through these times. Its a song about a man being brought to a crack/drug house. And the drug a girl got him hooked to was heroine.the line that says you can check out anytime but you can never leave means that once you get adicted to dope, theres no way out.. This song made me sad because I lost some one to this
Colitas is an actual plant that grows only in California. It’s very similar to marijuana though, since they both have a strong smell and California is known for them.
just great
I’m 15, so this opinion might be non-worthy to some of you more “experienced” music fans. But I think this song has nothing to do with drugs, weed, salvia, rehab, or the devil/Satan. I believe he is singing about the culture of Hollywood at the time. Hollywood is in California, and Hotel and Hollywood both begin with the same letters. I think he’s singing about how he came into the Hollywood culture, and how it’s like no other place, and he can’t leave. Like he’s been there alot longer than he had thought. Some lyrical support: “Dark desert highway” there are many deserted lands around Hollywood. “This could be heaven or this could be hell” everyone knows Hollywood life has it’s ups and downs, depending on the person. “any time of year” he’s there so much that you can find there anyday of the year. “Tiffany twisted; Mercedes Bienz” He is talking about how people (particularly women in this scenario) were very superficial and shallow, and cared so much for wealthy accessories. “Bring you alibis” He is suggesting that Hollywood life is a sinful and unfaithful place, so you better have an alibi for the people who might be suspicious. Well that’s all I got for now. Next time you listen to this wonderful song, have this mindset, and I promise every lyric fits.
I don’t know the meaning of the song, but it’s a bloody brilliant song. To be quite honest I don’t really care what it means.
This song is obviously about Cannibalism. Or a mental hospital.
Never really listened to the song until Al b Sure’s remake of it in the late 80′s early 90′s… was enchanted with the lyrics, which compelled me to find out more about the original song and songwritere. Classic!
No matter what others say about this song, it’s still on my fave list. I just adore the music. Can’t get enough of it.
This band has acctully sold their souls to the devil. They want you to think it has a different meaning but really it’s full of whitchcraft and words of demons. So every time you listen to these types of songs, you cast a spell on yourself and as time passes by, you’ll find yourself in a whole new negitive personality. The reason they don’t want you to know that it’s a satanic song is so you would listen to it, that’s how people that have sold their souls to Satan get so popular. In the past, I had no knowlage about this and I would listen to this kind of music, this song. I liked it, it had words that you could make your own meaning, a good, calm sounding voice, and the melody sounded great! But as I reaserched more about this band and many other artists, I was shoked. I noticed that I had a different personality. I began to hate a lot of people and I started being very rebellious towards my parents. These people know where they will end up at the end of their life, but why they do it? So they can recieve fame and popularity here on earth.
No one has mentioned hell. It’s a perfect discription of hell.
Like Genn Frey said…it was about life in the fast lane in Holllywood in the 1970′s. There were alot of drugs, especially Pot, LSD, and Cocaine. The problem was…it wasn’t some lonely Spanish hotel you got tuck in. It was all of California, and by extension all of the US–you couldn’t escape the “Fame and Fortune” scene. And yes, it got to resemble something like a great “Beast”…you tried to stab at it, to get it to let go of you, but the pressure just wouldn’t let up. Many artists of the era died…very few escaped unscathed, and Walsh, Frey, and Henley, and Fender were certainly no exceptions.
i would take it that the song i demonic in every sense..
the at first feeling of happiness, wealth, fame, pleasure all earthly feelings
but they know the consequence of their actions… thats why in the end..
you can always check out(stop being popular and stop everything)
but you can never leave(the curse bestowed to them..)
There is a hotel in California — Coronado Island — in which a guest checked in back in the 1800s and never checked out. I thought the reference was to that hotel, just coincidence.
I do not care what it is about…just really cool
really cooooooooool
Well, I’ve heard many different meanings. And I do think it’s about drugs.
I was seventeen when the song came out, a great hit and great music.
It was so unmistakably talking about the Vietnam war to me, when listening to its lyrics at that time. Very difficult to understand indeed for a non-English mother tounged young kid in the Far East, if the war had not been closer to home and that we’re probably seeing more comprehensive coverage on news in Hong Kong than in the US.
The lead in was perhaps a picturesque introduction to the body of the song as said.
Or it can be seem as a young man wandering in life and finally found a place in the military by checking into Hotel California – going to Nam.
Starting with the smell of marijuna, so characteristic of the time, everything becomes surreal but not unreal.
The “She” in the song is America, or more precisely, the US military. She’s got all the glamourous and fanciful things, Tiffiny, Mercedes, but they are all twisted and bends. Distorted.
“She’s got a lot of pretty boys she calls friends”, the many allies of America, so called friends.
“So I called up the captain”, could it be an Army captain?
Bringing the wine is only metaphoric leading to the most powerful and uncandid sentence that follows: “We havn’t had that spirit here since 1969!”
Spirit – so subtly masked by the wine but if one read this line by itself, the meaning cannot be more obvious. What happened in 1969 besides going to the Moon?
Nixon became president, the anti-war demonstration came to its hike. Revelation of unthinkable atrocities committed by American sodiers. Finally the commencement of the long and painful withdrawal from the war all happened in that year.
Why else would 1969 even be mentioned in this song?
The rest of the song is easy to follow if we adopt this theme.
The climax of the lyrics sums up the war effort:
“They gathered for the feast, they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast”
How brutal but how vivid.
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”
You want to check out when there is nothing to fight for, you can never leave while even when you have actually left the fighting, had the shadow of the war ever gone away for America?
The timing of the song, the generation it belongs to, it’s all so appropriate.
I don’t know the Eagle chaps, I just like the song, and no doubt it’s great music especially the classic guitar sequence. Did any one of them go to Vietnam? Perhaps the concept of the lyrics was brewed while they were sitting in one of those peace demonstrations, or perhaps when one of them reflects upon the horrible tour of duty.
To me this song is always about the generation of American sodier boys lost in a time of mass hallucination, while the country was having its Tiffiny twist and Mercedes bends.
I thought it was about an alien abduction… hah! I figured that the guy had been abducted by a spaceship and they were trying to brainwash him into believing it was a hotel. Then, he realized what was going on and wanted to leave, but then found out that it would never happen. I think I was WAY off. xD
I don’t care what this website says.
I still think its about a mental hospital.
I read a story in school called “The Hitch hiker”. The main character died on a road trip by himself, but didn’t know it. And as he drove and drove across the country he was being followed by a person, death. I think Patrick’s explanation is short but thourough. His judgement has come but he does not know it yet.
A similar thing also happened in “The Odessey”. Odysseus stayed at some sort of hotel like thing, I think called “Lotus inn” or something like that, and the place was designed to keep people captive. Like you lost track of time, what seemed like hours was really days. But it was such a great place you wouldnt even notice.
The song is about the first church of satan , Its about a colt thought everyone knew this
I thought because of the celebrities that died in that hotel maybe they are referring to their spirits still being trapped there. ” We’re all prisioners here, of our own device….(drugs, prehaps)…You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave”…kinda creepy and odd to me. But maybe I’m wrong about it.
A song can mean many things to many people. It doesn’t have to have just one meaning. To me, this song has a very spooky feeling that suggests the other guests at the hotel are ghosts and the singer is soon to become one.
The band members sound like they’re masking a hidden meaning when they talk about Hotel California.
I’m not going to be outrageous and say this is about devil worship or something like that. But if you can’t see death and drug references in the lyrics, you’re absolutely nuts.
I think this song really hits home with those of us who have experienced drug addiction. Only those who know what that strange, twisted high feels like can truly understand. There’s a very clear feeling in this song and I guess you wouldn’t notice unless you’ve felt it before.
Not saying I know everything about the band, or drugs, or anything else. But some of the other comments about drugs are right on. The song evokes a familiar feeling for us.
For me, there’s no question what Hotel California is about.
I thought it was about a seductive ghost who tricks a man into staying in a hotel full of lost souls and then traps him in the hotel for all eternity. Well that’s what I thought.
it is definitly about satanic church
I, too, always thought it was about death. I pictured a guy on a motorcycle; he falls asleep and crashes — but he doesn’t realize he’s dead because now he’s in the afterlife; “it could be heaven or it could be hell.” In fact, it’s both, and because this guy has devoted himself to living life “in the fast lane” all he can imagine as either heaven or hell is sex, drugs, materialistic luxury (Tiffany, Mercedes Benz) and weirdness.
There’s a theory that what you find in the afterlife is what you expect; you create “heaven” or “hell” in your own mind, from your own experience. There’s also a theory that there is no afterlife, of course, not to mention the usual religious theories. I am personally a complete agnostic about the afterlife, so I have no vested interest in any particular interpretation; it’s just what it sounded like to me. Now I find out it’s about Hollywood/LA, the record biz, etc. — it works fine that way, too, obviously. But I liked my version better because I am very much NOT enamoured of songs about what a tough damn life musicians lead (or actors, or whoever) — how painful it is to be famous, etc., etc. I have a friend who was on her way to musical stardom in LA in the 80′s and who just pulled out and went away to live in the woods because she realized what a terrible life it was — now she’s nobody and loves her life. Someone should write a song about that!!
I have to agree with Patrick Byrne. It is about death, but also with Scratch. It is about death, but in your final moments, when your life flashes, the fun things that you have done. This one partied, but the next one may not have, who knows??? Just my opinion, and I apologize if I offend anyone, not intended
Living here in California, working-flirting-playing with-and-in The Industry ….. ie.
Entertainment in its varied facets is:- Checking into Hotel California, lyrics and all.
We have our own unique delivery and interpretation
But Don is The Man.
i always thaught this song represented fear like in the line “You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave” i always thaught it was like you are trapped inside your fear and can’t escape.
Saw current incarnation of the Eagles live last night here in South Africa. They played Hotel California as first encore, sounded like they were on a studio recording. Incredible! First heard it as a fourteen year old in ’77, with Wasted Time (which they didn’t play last night!) had big influence on me on teenage years. Thanks for interesting read.
Yes. If you play one bit backwards it mentions the devil. Don’t worry, it’s unclear and doesn’t sound deliberate. Nirvana’s song when played backwards is wired.
This song I think is just about a decision, forced by someone else. He had to go in, because they’re tired. Just saying, he can’t leave, they won’t let you, so yeah. Who knows