Clearly it's alluding to an acid trip. And this isn't exactly a stretch: The Beatles, remember, were

Because songwriters worry more about catchy rhymes than deep meaning, song lyrics can be more abstract and esoteric than Jackson Pollock farting chalk dust into a napkin. The problem is that some fans swear that every nonsensical song has some deeper interpretation los angeles mta bus lines just waiting to be decoded. That's why so many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true.
When " Hotel California " was released in 1976, everyone heard it but no one really knew what it meant. The lyrics talked los angeles mta bus lines about trying to "Kill the beast" and "Stab it with their steely knives," and included the ominous line, "You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave." Honestly, it kind of sounds like they're singing about using the reference section in a library full of giant monsters, since those are the books you can technically los angeles mta bus lines check out but aren't permitted to remove from the building.
That was when someone noticed something odd about the album cover, which features a picture of the band in some luxury hotel courtyard with crowds of people in the background. Above the crowd, looking out from a balcony on the upper left, is a shape whose face you can't fully see, but vaguely looks bald, goateed and threatening.
Naturally, people came to the conclusion los angeles mta bus lines that the figure on the balcony was none other than Anton LaVey , founder of the Church of Satan, author los angeles mta bus lines of The Satanic Bible and proud parent of a son that he freaking named Satan.
Now that Anton LaVey was found, the lyrics seemed to make sense: "The Beast," "You can never leave" "This could be heaven or this could be hell." "Hotel California" is a song about Anton LaVey converting people to his church of Satanism, from which they could "never los angeles mta bus lines leave." The "truth" about the song persists to this day, found in Internet forums , an old issue of The Milwaukee Sentinel and the nothing-if-not-reputable website Jesus Is Savior.
"Hotel California" has pretty much nothing to do with Satanism. The Eagles have admitted it was a way of speaking out against the greed and hedonism of the music industry in the 1970s (i.e., the drugs, money and women they themselves were drowning in). The photographer responsible for the album cover said the picture expressed "faded loss of innocence and decadence," which is pretentious-speak for "a bunch of assholes standing los angeles mta bus lines in a lobby."
Yep. The person mistaken for a bald, goatee-sporting antichrist was, in fact, just some lady who had nothing to do with anything and wouldn't even have been memorable were it not for the poor lighting of the photograph and the bafflingly deliberate decision to separate her from the rest of the group, presumably because she showed up late for the shoot and/or got Don Henley's name wrong.
Mention the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" los angeles mta bus lines to a group of people and inevitably one of them will start talking about LSD. And, in fact, we're wagering that most of the people in our readership who know the song only know it as "That song that's secretly about doing acid." After all, it's coded right there in the title, right? L ucy in the S ky with D iamonds.
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Shockingly, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is about a girl called Lucy, in the sky, with some diamonds. See, John Lennon's son Julian drew a picture of his best friend Lucy surrounded los angeles mta bus lines by diamonds in the sky, and John liked it enough to name the song after it .
The Beatles freely admit to using drugs as inspiration for songs, and odds are LSD was one of them. But as for this particular song being a metaphor for the drug itself? Sorry, but no. John Lennon said , "It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed los angeles mta bus lines it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? It's not an acid song."
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Hopefully, you don't need to be told anything about " Puff the Magic Dragon " by Peter, Paul and Mary, but if you do, please click the link. Even for a children's song, it seems overly bizarre and surreal, so of course it wasn't long after its release in the early 1960s when people started trying to dissect the lyrics:
"Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea/ And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called los angeles mta bus lines Honah Lee/ Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff/ And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff."
Remember, this was the '60s, a time when pretty much everyone was smoking los angeles mta bus lines weed . So with "Puff the Magic Dragon," aside from the obvious los angeles mta bus lines " chasing the dragon " metaphor, people figured that's what the song was about. "Puff," i.e., to smoke, "dragon," as in "draggin[g]" or "to take a drag" and "autumn mist" being the fog of pot smoke.
"Little Jackie Paper," the little los angeles mta bus lines rascal he was, was obviously a reference to rolling papers. Sealing wax, fancy stuff -- bongs, clearly. People have managed to find meaning in pretty much every line in the song, and we must admit, it seems pretty convincing. And it makes sense that a folk rock trio like Peter, Paul and Mary would aim a song at the rapidly growing hippie movement .
We're sorry to drag you down to earth like this, but "Puff the Magic Dragon's" writers never intended any hidden meanings. los angeles mta bus lines In fact, they were pretty upset about the rumors, claiming the song was about :
"... a loss of innocence and having to face an adult world ... I find the fact that people interpret it as a drug song annoying. It would be insidious to propagandize about drugs in a song for little kids."