Hotel California

1. Put the verbs in the past
How do you pronounce this year – 1969?
See What´s the meaning?
Grow Doorway
Bell
Have Heaven
Stand Hell
Hear Courtyard
Remember
Can Forget
Show Wine
Spirit = gíria para bebida
Think Mirror
Get Ceiling
Gather
Call Knife
Say Checkout
am Leave
shimmering

2. On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair So I CALLED up the captain, please bring me my wine
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air He SAID, we haven´t had that spirit here since nineteen
sixty nine
Up ahead in the distance, I SAW a shimmering light
And still those voices are calling from far away,
My head grew heavy and my sight GREW dim
Wake you up in the middle of the night
I HAD to stop for the night
Just to hear them say...
There she STOOD in the doorway;
I HEARD the mission bell
Welcome to the hotel california
And I was thinking to myself,
Such a lovely place
this could be heaven or this could be hell
Such a lovely face
Then she lit up a candle and she SHOWED me the way
They livin it up at the hotel california
There were voices down the corridor,
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
I THOUGHT I heard them say...
Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice
Welcome to the hotel california
And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own
Such a lovely place device
Such a lovely face And in the master´s chambers,
Plenty of room at the hotel california They gathered for the feast
Any time of year, you can find it here The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just CAN´T kill the beast
Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she GOT the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. I had to find the passage back To the place I WAS before
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget “relax”, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any
time you like,
But you can never leave!

3. How would you classify this song?
• What dos the story tell?
• Have you lived a situation like this?