Interesting commentaries I found on the Hotel California lyric:
"Device here is a metaphor for "your own doing". So, it means here that we become prisoners by our own thoughts and our own actions... hope that helps! I think it's basically a word misspelling/misuse. The correct statement appears to be, "we are all prisoners of our own devising. I.e., we've all made ourselves our own prisoners."
"In other words, the song is saying that we are all prisoners by our own means. We weren't tricked into this situation by anyone else; if we were tricked at all, we tricked ourselves. Our own plan put us where we are."
Instead of drug addiction, Dan Frey said it referred to “the underbelly of success, the darker side of paradise." Interesting... |