Great Unanswered Question 1: how will Brexit turnout?
Great Unanswered Question 2: What is the Eagles song Hotel California all about?
I’ve cracked the code: Just read these lyrics, to the tune if you remember it……….. the bold words are all that I have had to change for it all to make sense!! I’ve posted someone else’s Youtube version of the original with original lyrics at the end. Enjoy!! Welcome to the Hotel May Theresa!!
On a dark Dover highway, hands running through my hair
Warm smell of fajitas, coming from God knows where
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a red tail light
The lorries lined up, nowhere to go
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway
Heard the Division bell
And I was thinking to myself
‘This isn’t heaven, looks like Hell’
Then she lit up a candle, promised she knew the way
There were voices down the corridor
I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the Hotel May Theresa
Keep a straight face (keep a straight face)
I know it’s a waste
Doom and gloom at the Hotel May Theresa
Any time of year (any time of year) nothing to fear
Her mind you know it’s not twisted, won’t drive a Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the Commons, Brexiters don’t sweat
Some dance the Remainer, some dance to forget
So I called up the Juncker
“Please listen this time”
He said “we haven’t heard that one before at least since half past 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 May Theresa
Keep a straight face (keep a straight face)
I know it’s a waste
Livin’ it up at the Hotel May Theresa
How the time flies (how the time flies), no more alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
Mogg champagne on ice
And she said, ‘we are all just prisoners here, of our own device”
And in Disaster’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
Underneath the Speaker’s eyes,
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 Euroman,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!’
with full acknowledgment to The Eagles and Hotel California
Now you know what the song was about!! I did warn you before the referendum – see my blog of 7th June 2016, Check out time? Think again. Vote Remain, complete with The Eagles’s great punchline. I stand by every word I wrote then.
Richard Rhys O’Brien
