Fastball
All The Pain Money Can Buy (1998)
The Way
They made up their minds
And they started packing
They left before the sun came up that day
An exit to eternal summer slacking
But where were they going
Without ever knowing the way?
They drank up the wine
And they got to talking
They now had more important things to say
And when the car broke down They started walking
Where were they going without ever knowing the way?

CHORUS:
Anyone could 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 gray
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 happy there today , today

The children woke up And they couldn't find 'em
They Left before the sun came up that day
They just drove off And left it all behind 'em
But Where were they going Without ever knowing the way?

Anyone could 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 gray
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 happy there today , today (repeat)

The fact that "The Way" exists at all is a study in irony.     Tony Scalzo (lead vocals, bass, keyboards), who had been suffering from writer's block, was inspired after reading a newspaper account of a missing elderly couple who were late for a family reunion and wrote "The Way" as his romantic happy-ending version of the pair's story.     (Real life, as always, was less cooperative, as Scalzo followed the story and eventually learned that the unfortunate couple had been found dead in their car in the bottom of a ravine.)     Tony's account was written before it was ever found out that the couple met their demise at the bottom of an Arkansas cliff and, decidedly his ending was a bit more romantic and carefree.