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15 years ago  #131
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Okay just so everyone stops arguing about this, The song is about hedonism and self-destruction in the late 1970's Southern California Music Industry. Don Felder did a talk show on the Howard Stern Show and said, and I quote,

"Don Henley and Glen wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA... and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs."

He also stated that the band refutes and claims that the song has anything to do with satanic churches or mental hospitals, etc.

"colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a desert flower, also known as Antelope sage or Colita de Rata, Don Henley has made many references to the "heady desert flower"

Also "Killing the beast" has nothing to do with a drug addiction. The line "stab it with their steely knives But they just can't kill the beast" is a reference as a playful nod to Steely Dan in return for the Eagles being referred to in the song "Everything you did" as "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening".

 
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Originally posted by bluefus Okay just so everyone stops arguing about this, The song is about hedonism and self-destruction in the late 1970's Southern California Music Industry. Don Felder did a talk show on the Howard Stern Show and said, and I quote,

"Don Henley and Glen wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA... and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs."

He also stated that the band refutes and claims that the song has anything to do with satanic churches or mental hospitals, etc.

"colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a desert flower, also known as Antelope sage or Colita de Rata, Don Henley has made many references to the "heady desert flower"

Also "Killing the beast" has nothing to do with a drug addiction. The line "stab it with their steely knives But they just can't kill the beast" is a reference as a playful nod to Steely Dan in return for the Eagles being referred to in the song "Everything you did" as "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening".

Well I am going based off of what everyone else is doing....searching the internet. Plus i have heard over and over so I was only going based on what I read and have heard. Oh well that song was forever ago. We are many songs past it.

 
15 years ago  #133
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Last one. Probably pretty easy though. 20K Prize

 
15 years ago  #134
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about the pain he felt when he lost his son

                                                 
15 years ago  #135
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Originally posted by Versatile about the pain he felt when he lost his son

Very good

 
15 years ago  #136
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lol this one was probably the easiest of them all

                                                 
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Originally posted by Versatile lol this one was probably the easiest of them all

Probably

You've sent Versatile $20,000 and were charged a 20% fee

I will be doing more tomorrow people.

 
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Thank You!

                                                 
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Originally posted by Versatile Thank You!

If you are on tomorrow come back.

 
15 years ago  #140
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Okay, I am doing this again a few times today. To start today's off it is a tricky one.

Tell me why this a tricky song... 20K Prize

 

 

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