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==**  The American Dream **==

-- Mary Martin
media type="youtube" key="0QL64pNdzLk" height="333" width="409" "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." --The Great Gatsby  "As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living." --George Bernard Shaw

Hotel California is a song that is actually about the American dream. The founding member of The Eagles, Don Henley said that Hotel California is really about "the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about."

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...
 * Hotel California** by The Eagles

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 They 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!

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