Hotel California (Unplugged) by Viking Cowboys

Released: 1976 Album: Hotel California Artist: Eagles Nominations: Grammy Award for Record of the Year, MORE Genre: Rock Awards: Grammy Award for Record of the Year Hotel California is a metaphor for cocaine addiction The narrator is on an exotic experimental mind journey. The “Dark Desert Highway” refers to a craving drug trip that has a disastrous aftermath. The warm smell of Colitas (the Spanish term for tumble weeds) makes his head heavy and sight dim. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LYRICS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, “Hotel California“ 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 c