There’s a song by The Eagles called Lyin’ Eyes about a woman who is cheating and there’s a lyric that goes something like “she’s heading for the cheating side of town” and it makes me laugh like ahh yes, the adultery district
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I don’t like that song. It emphasizes the man’s “sexual morality” over women “lying and cheatin’”. Men, in much larger numbers, are adept at lying and cheating. Which they forget. And thus they go nuts when they get the “short end of the stick”
Henry Hyde, pro-family advocate of the "Hyde Amendment," kept a girlfriend for six years in Chicago. He knew where you could take a woman not your wife in the city.
I used to say if you’re going to cheat here in my city, you better go to East far away, because you will run into someone that knows your uncle Bob’s best friend!
In my little town, the cheating side is where the little roadside motels are - the ones you rent by the hour, with fences around the parking lot so no one can see your car.
Seems like you could make a lot of money by setting up hidden cameras looking over that fence and publishing your newsletter on substack. Lady Whistledown: Rockford Edition.
I was in a store with the piped in music today and Lyin' Eyes was playing. One of my fave songs from my bar days at The South 40 in Norman, OK. 💜 the Eagles!
True but the song tells a-lot about people men and women the look in there eyes tell the truth example judge judy always say look at me if you speak to me
It’s a bunch of love motels, exotic dance clubs and sex shops. They actually had an area like that when I lived in Utah. Near the industrial district far from suburban areas.
I have lived in only one city that didn’t have an obvious strip of cheap clubs, bars, and - um - boarding houses? where it was obvious you might only feel comfortable if you were doing something naughty. I just called a friend in Nashville to ask if such a place still exists. He assured me it does.
I assume you aren’t old enough to have experienced small town life in the 70s, where there definitely was a part of town where a lonely spouse would go to find comfort, and where most of the trysts would take place.
There is, or was, an atmospherically seedy-looking Hotel California on a big wide boulevard in Panama City (not Florida) called Tumba Muerte, which means exactly what you think it means.
I've seen those small motels that everyone pretends not to see. Where the cars in the parking lot suddenly became invisible, because no one is without sin so no one says anything about where "Roger" was parked at lunch time ....
Exactly. It avoids confusion, especially for law enforcement when getting tip-offs like "Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town."
Not a lot to go on, is it?
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If you actually _really_ listen to pretty much any Eagles song's lyrics, the wretchedly strained double entendres will force you to boil your brain clean afterwards.
I don't feel like they were any more misogynistic than other artists of their time. I know of a LOT of misogynistic rock and Country songs from the '50s all the way into the '90s, by various artists.
So she tells him she must go out for the evening
To comfort an old friend who's feelin' down
But he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'
She is headed for the cheatin' side of town
If you don't know where "the cheatin' side of town" is in your city or town, good for you. The cops know and the divorce lawyers and all the cheating husbands know where the motels and bars and restaurants are where you won't be seen by your friends or your wives.
Fun fact about Grapehunt lane in every old city with English streetnames: that is the adultery district, the name comes from grope something that rhymes with hunt.
It's a whole zoning thing. One meeting was just deciding if the adultery district would include the motels on the interstate or the big sex toy store three miles away. The compromise included the store and the main road connecting it to the interstate, even though the Chuck E. Cheese was on it too.
Glenn Frey’s obit in the NYT reported that he did an excessive amount of takes to get the first word of this song exactly to his satisfaction. It’s perfect - one of my favorite songs. And as an 8 year old, I definitely had a cartoonish vision of the cheatin’ side of town 😂
Just now discovering “Lyin Eyes”??? It’s been around for many many years….. the cheating side is Orange Krasnov in the Oval Office. He cheats everyone except his daddies Musk & Putin
—Homer, there's four places. There's the Cheating Hut, that's on third. There's Homewrecks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Infidelity Inc. That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the adultery complex on third.
—Oh, the adultery district!
I know that song and I know that lyric you're talking about. I've always thought that the the lyric was meant kind of tongue-in-cheek, that the writer was intentionally punting on the fact that there were various parts of town.
This may surprise you, but it’s a metaphor. See, the lyricist is not referring to a literal jailbreak. Kind of like the Eagles lyricist used personification to describe a part of town that might include sleazy bars and cheap motels as “cheatin’”
One of the most underrated aspects of the Eagles is that they have two wholly distinctive klunker writers. Frey and Henley are the opposite attract partners of shitty lyric writers
I loved this song! I thought it was a really well-crafted little story with a fetching melody. I don't listen to it often anymore, but that's only because 17,000 times was enough - for now, at least.
I played that song, Lyin' Eyes, at my past two gigs,including the past Friday night. It's one of the first difficult songs that I learned to play way back in the day.
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"I guess every form of refuge has its price."
Great song.
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...for those restless hearts that never mend...
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski
Check out? Sure, that too.
Leave? Not ever.
Nope, not buying it. It sounds like something written by a deeply confused stoner.
#pedo
#foryears
#nothanks
most cities and communities still have a row of bars, or a street known to be where most the social places are
so, there kinda used to be
now, anyone wanting that side of town, swipes one way or the other on their phone
Poly is a thing. A good thing.
But to others, it's a part time minimum wage young 20 something paraded in front of cash rich customers who lure her to the motel 69 yards away
https://m.soundcloud.com/john-lynker/sets/love-or-limerence
Not a lot to go on, is it?
https://youtu.be/AWSWqn7UHYM?si=E4H4YN76PAnjqsTA
To comfort an old friend who's feelin' down
But he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'
She is headed for the cheatin' side of town
Pew-pew-pew! with stolen guns.
They must be young
—Oh, the adultery district!
My wife and I will have to plan a day trip 💜
SOMEWHERE IN THE TOWN?
Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be at the JAIL!!!
If it’s at any other location, you have to call it something else!
Killed a horse! Probably should have covered it up when they were covering up the plants.
Even Lyft & Uber drivers are like, "Ah yes, the Adultery District. Someone is looking for a good time tonight! Buckle up, Madam!"