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Hotel California Lyrics include a scary undercurrent that may have led to some people’s strange assumptions about the song. This track by the Eagles won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. A number of people misunderstood the Hotel California lyrics that came with the album. “She’s got the Mercedes bends” was thought to be a typo, but it was simply a play on words. Hotel California lyrics are a sustained metaphor of the Eagles’ LA experiences at the time, as band member Glenn Frey has explained. The song is about the sordid part of the American dream, according to Don Henley, Frey’s co-lyricist. Henley and Frey added lyrics to the music for the song, which first came from Don Felder. Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 all-time greatest albums has the Hotel California album, at number 37.