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After I listen to this song, I feel the song is talking about a man live by himself. He has no friend or any girlfriend, and he don't want it either. He felt if he has girlfriend or friend. He'll feel pain and want to cry someday. He rather want to be a rock, an island, with no pain and cry. The only thing stay with him is the books and the poetry. At first I have picture that he is on a big mountain, there's nothing, only his house and surround the wall. The bottom of this mountain is a large city with all other people. I think he is happy about his life, a person in his house with no other people.

I think this song at first is singing about a person that is really normal that didn't related to anything. He just felt dizzy and want to live in a hotel, and there's a girl that is pretty and want to guide him to the hotel, but when it was the end of the song, he wants to leave te hotel. This song seem like a peaceful song, like califrnia hotel is lovly and peace, but I think actually this hotel might be terrible. In the middle of the song, "'We are all just prisoners here of our own device" and "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast". I think it means if we go into that hotel, we might become prison and we will be attack bt the beast. At last a really normal man because of living in this hotel, become a prisoner and never can get back to his normal life. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"