On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Bryon Daly wrote: > Erik Reuter wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:10:21AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > > "They told me they wanted to go to America after the war. I said > > > where. They said California. I said why? They said the song Hotel > > > California and they left singing Hotel California." > > > > I wonder if they really understood what the Eagles were singing > > about. "You can check out but you can never leave..." > > What *were* the Eagles signing about in that song? That line in > particular has always puzzled me.
Drug addiction. That line is a play on words: "check out" -> "die". In other words, you can die but you can never leave (break the addiction). -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
