Most of the content heard is advertisements, and at one point, the radio tunes in while ' Foolish Games' by Jewel is playing. The beginning of the song features a radio scanning through FM stations. The chorus expresses the idea that the couple are achieving happiness by losing touch with the world, even though they may never see their home again. Their car breaks down during the trip, forcing them to continue on foot. The song's lyrics revolve around an older married couple who decide to leave their life behind by packing their things and going driving, without telling their children about their plans. The authorities who investigated the accident believed that Lela, who was driving the car, was trying to locate a place where she had once vacationed. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route. įastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles that described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas, who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. The song was voted by VH1 as one of its '100 Greatest Songs of the '90s', ranking it at number 94. Worldwide, the song peaked at number seven in Sweden and entered the top 20 in Australia, Iceland, and Norway. It also reached number one in Canada on the week of June 15, 1998, and topped the RPM Alternative 30 chart for four weeks. 'The Way' peaked at number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in April 1998 and remained there for seven weeks. Scalzo was inspired to write the song after reading about the disappearance of an elderly couple who were found dead in their car many miles away from their original destination. The song was written by the band's lead vocalist, Tony Scalzo, and was produced by the band and Julian Raymond. It was released on January 7, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, All the Pain Money Can Buy (1998). ' The Way' is a song by American alternative rock band Fastball.

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