Eagles - "The Last Resort" slideshow with lyrics on screen & in description. This song is really a history lesson. I've created this slideshow using images of beautiful American fine art, historic photographs and colorful high quality current scenic photographs. "The Last Resort" is a song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey. It was originally released on the Eagles' album Hotel California on December 8. 1976.[1] It was subsequently released as the B-side of "Life in the Fast Lane" single on May 3, 1977. n a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone, Henley said: "'The Last Resort', on Hotel California, is still one of my favorite songs... That's because I care more about the environment than about writing songs about drugs or love affairs or excesses of any kind. The gist of the song was that when we find something good, we destroy it by our presence — by the very fact that man is the only animal on earth that is capable of destroying his environment. The environment is the reason I got into politics: to try to do something about what I saw as the complete destruction of most of the resources that we have left. We have mortgaged our future for gain and greed." (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) The song reflects on the Westward Expansion in America, with the hardship, bloodshed, greed and destruction of natural resources and wildlife that came with the settling of the West. Americans felt it was their destiny to claim the land and own the frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. California was the last frontier. Ironically, the song says, "We can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina", which is a town on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. Don Henley wrote the lyrics, which tell the epic story employing sarcasm and criticism. Lyrics for Eagles, "The Last Resort": "The Last Resort" She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island Where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee Just as her father came across the sea She heard about a place