The Way Lyrics

[Chorus]
Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold
And it's always summer, they'll never get cold
They'll never get hungry
They'll never get old and grey
You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere
They won't make it home, but they really don't care
They wanted the highway
They're happier there today, today


[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold
And it's always summer, they'll never get cold
They'll never get hungry
They'll never get old and grey
You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere
They won't make it home, but they really don't care
They wanted the highway
They're happier there today, today


[Guitar Solo Outro]
Leavin' it all behind

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About

Genius Annotation

The inspiration for “The Way” was developed after Fastball member Tony Scalzo read articles about an elderly couple from Salado, Texas, who left home in June of 1997 to attend the Pioneer Day Festival in Temple, Texas and were discovered deceased at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas two weeks later.

According to Tony Scalzo, he said that “it’s like a romanticized take on what happened” and pictured them “taking off to have fun like they did when they first met”.

The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1998, and it topped Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart for 7 weeks.

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