I'm just going to stop typing now because if I don't I'm going to talk about every line in the song and bore everyone to death. Where were they going without ever knowing the way?" meaning that after the car crashed their spirits just left the car and. This gives a different meaning to the lines "And when the car broke down they started walking Tony Scalzo, the bassist of the band, was inspired to write the song after reading the story." Both of them were found dead 2 weeks later at the bottom of a ravine in Arkansas, which was way off of their original driving route. "An elderly couple in Texas (where Fastball is from) went out to drive to a Pioneer Day Festival one day in June 1997, but they never arrived. Okay well anyways, I read this on this one website and it sounds pretty legit: Every time I listen to it I get goose bumps and/or start to cry. For some people that might just be enough to make them bail for "a weekend to themselves" and then maybe never end up coming back.
Sometimes maybe it's just 1971 and too much of what you were told has recently been proven BULLSHIT. And not all the ideas I have about why people might do that are dark or terrible. It has always led me to think of the things that might make adults (proper citizens, perhaps) abscond from even their children in favor of living as wandering shadows (vs. I'm suggesting that The Way conveys very well a different story than that of two old senile people driving off the road. In that respect, the story of "The Way" can be compared to "Feel it Still." In the latter, "Leave her for the babystitter, momma, call the grave digger" carries a similar suggestion to the former's "The children woke up and they couldn't find them they left before the sun came up that day."
Sometimes it was young women or couples on their way to Woodstock who might ditch their kids with moms & pops for way too long. The Man "Feel it Still" and tell me you don't see how it could relate very well to some themes that band's latest album (entitled "Woodstock") expresses.įor example, the chaotic social landscape of 1960's and 1970's America certainly included examples of parents leaving children behind. But even if not consciously intended, I think this song deserves high praise for its transcendent lyrics.Ĭompare it to the recent hit song by Portugal. I've read authenticated comments from the author of the lyrics that tie the song to the story of the elderly couple who drove off and disappeared to later be found dead in an auto accident (possibly dementia-related). So I posted one tonight that says the below: But I think there's more going on here poetically in terms of human mythic value for people than I found expressed in the 6 or 7 comments I just read tonight. Hey, this post was well to point and tight. They just drove off and left it all behind 'em The children woke up, and they couldn't find 'em They wanted the highway, they're happier there today, today They won't make it home but they really don't care You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere They'll never get hungry, they'll never get old and gray It's always summer, they'll never get cold Where were they going without ever knowing the way?Īnyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in gold They now had more important things to sayĪnd when their car broke down they started walking They drank up the wine, and they got to talking They left before the sun came up that dayīut where were they going without ever knowing the way? Sing along with the lyrics.They made up their minds, and they started packing They just drove off and left it all behind ’em They now had more important things to sayĪnd when the car broke down they started walkingĪnyone can see the road that they walk on They left before the sun came up that day Can you find the other past simple verbs in the lyrics? “They started packing” The past simple verb here is started. When speaking in the past tense, you are talking about something that happened or occured in the past. This song has several examples of past simple verbs.
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