"Last Exit To Surrey" genre: Pop
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	Irresistibly catchy groove sets the stage for 4 chords and the truth. Laura’s sumptuous vocals deliver the goods on finding your way through the maze of parental modeling and proactive choice.
	CD: No Easy Answers   Label: Independent Credits: Lyrics: L. Doyle Music: L. Doyle & S. Eyre
	Story Behind the Song My father’s death when I was six left a huge imprint on my emotional being. I often think of that folk song that goes: “teach your children well, their father’s hell” and Last Exit is about that. I’m fascinated with what I picked up from my parents both the said and unsaid because, as long as we are unaware, those core beliefs we adhered to in our formative years impact us in the most insidious ways. It is when we find the decision point in our childhood, that moment that we took on what they believed or told us to believe, that we begin to undo our patterns and be at choice about what we want to happen in the here and now. The metaphor of driving to Surrey continues to remind me not to take my father’s way through pain. By the way, there really is a sign that says Last Exit to Surrey just before you hit the Portman Bridge driving west on Highway 1 to Vancouver, BC. Shortly after writing this song I saw a new sign on the highway. It said Surrey 7 km, Hope 135 km. I guess you have to drive a little further to get to hope. Lyrics Last Exit to Surrey Where there’s a will there’s a way my father used to say and I suppose that’s what he told himself when she slammed the door told him not to show his face again And I couldn’t really tell you much about him it’s all hearsay I heard he fixed fancy cars liked to drink the pain away and a bunch of words can’t tell you nothing it’s like drawing a stickman to describe humanity And the sign on the highway says last exit to Surrey and the sign, the sign on the highway says last exit to Surrey And the last time I saw him I was just a girl of six he’d been two years in the hospital his liver too far gone to fix and when my mom said give your daddy a kiss good-bye I didn’t have a clue I’d be losing him forever that night And the sign on the highway says last exit to Surrey and the sign, the sign on the highway says last exit to Surrey And a hospital’s too much like a prison just no bars on the window and there’s no drink to take the pain away so he checked out, picked up a bottle of rye and checked in to a motel in Surrey BC And just across the mighty Fraser river in a motel in Surrey BC he took his last drink, his last breath he lost his will to find a way he lost his will to find a way There’s a sign on the highway when I’m headed home it says last exit to Surrey and it’s all I can do when I hit my pain not to go that way not to drive that way it’s all I can do when I hit my pain not to go that way not to drive that way it’s all I can do when I hit my pain not to go that way not to drive that way not to go that way God knows how I’ll find, find my way God knows how I’ll find, find my way

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