"We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"?
It is from the song "Hotel California" by the Eagles.I have a hard time interpreting the meaning of *device* in this context.
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"Device" in this context means by our own doing or by the works of our hands. You may have heard the popular phrase "I'll leave you to your own devices" or "don't leave them to use their own devices", these statements suggest that the power of their own works (thoughts, decisions, actions) reap results. Think of the electronic device in your hand, it is capable of certain things and is not capable of other things. Our actions are the same way. The song is suggesting that we are all prisoners because of our own choices and actions.
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Craig T.
What about the song "Unhappy Girl" by the rock group The Doors which was issued more than nine years earlier than HotLCali and perhaps may possess a similar sense to it?: "Unhappy girl / Left all alone / Playing solitaire / Playing warden to your soul / You are locked in a prison / Of your own device / And you can't believe / What it does to me / To see you / Crying".10/27/21