MOONRAISERS - HOTEL CALIFORNIA

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

MOONRAISERS

SONGWRITERS: DON FELDER; DON HENLEY & GLENN FREY

COUNTRY: SWITZWELAND

ALBUM: HOTEL CALIFORNIA/SINGLE

LABEL: DAMP MUSIC

GENRE: REGGAE

YEAR: 2007

Moonraisers are a reggae band formed in 1992 and based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Their style, a type of electronic reggae dubbed World’ n’ Moonstyle Reggae, joins roots reggae with funk, world and electro elements. They are best known for composing the original version of the dance super hit, Rise up. Although at the time it came out it didn't make any success, the song became a hit played in the dance clubs for months after Yves laRocke made a dance cover of it.

On a dark desert Highway, cool wind in his hair

Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim

He had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway;

He heard the mission bell

And I was thinking to myself,

'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'

Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way

There were voices down the corridor,

He thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California

Such a lovely place (such a lovely face)

Plenty of room at the Hotel California

Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz

She got a lot pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends

How they dance in the moonlight, sweet summer sweat,

Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So he called up the Captain,

'Please bring me my wine'

He said, 'We haven't had this spirit

here since nineteen sixty nine'

And still those voices are calling from far away,

Wake up in the middle of the night

Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California

Such a lovely place (such a lovely face)

Livin' it up at the Hotel California

What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,

Pink champagne on ice

And she said 'We are all just prisoners here,

of our own device'

And in the master's chambers,

They gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives

But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing he remember,

He was running for the door

He had to find the passage back

To the place I was before

'Relax', said the night man,

'We are programmed to receive,

You can check out any time you like,

but you can never leave'.