Lyrics to
Hotel

This version of Hotel was released by 10Cc in 1974.

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On de uber side ob de island
Dere’s a sky so clear and blue
Can see, cross water, to de mainland
New life for me and you

Let’s buy a hotel
Let’s get a yacht
We’ll get a golden island
In the sun made of coconut
Let’s buy an old car
We’ll crash in a hut
We’ll feed the food to the Ford
And we’ll live off the coconut

Well there’s a big black mama
In a tree
She’s gonna cook us
She’s gonna call up the rest of the tribe
And it looks like the ghost of Tarzan lied
He went over to the other side
And he rang like a bell
From tree to tree

They never ever let you go
They never ever let you go

We get American menus
With all American men
We’re getting sick of things American
We ate our way through half the Pentagon
We had our share of big palookas

Yankee go home
Yankee go ho ho home

They never ever let you go
They never ever let you go

Yankee go home
Yankee go ho ho home

Let’s buy a hotel
Let’s get a yacht
We’ll get a golden island
In the sun made of coconut
Let’s buy an old car
We’ll crash in a hut
We’ll feed the food to the Ford
And we’ll live off the coconut

Well there’s a big black mama in a tree
She’s gonna cook us
She’s gonna call up the rest of the tribe
And it looks like the ghost of Tarzan lied
He went over to the other side
And he rang like a bell
From tree to tree
Tree to tree, tree to tree

They never ever let you go
They never ever let you go

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About Lyrics and Hotel by 10Cc

When you decide to study the lyrics to Hotel, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by 10Cc. Some of the lyrics to Hotel have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only 10Cc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Hotel if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hotel" means the words set to the music of Hotel, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hotel and the lyrics to Hotel are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hotel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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