The Last Resort

A few years back, I had heard the song 'The Last Resort' by the Eagles for the first time. Ever since it had become one of my favorites. Very recently, I did get hold of the song again and was curious about what the lyrics of this song signified. The song mostly talks about how urbanization has led to the demise of the environment and how the Westward Expansion in the US has led to lasting negative ecological and social repercussions.

The significance of the song in Don Henley's (Eagles lead) own words as part of a 1987 interview,

"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."

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