The Way by Fastball Song Info
"The Way" is a song by American alternative rock band Fastball. It was released on January 7, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, All the Pain Money Can Buy (1998). The song was written by the band's lead vocalist, Tony Scalzo, and was produced by the band and Julian Raymond. "The Way" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in April 1998 and remained there for seven weeks. The song was voted by VH1 as one of its "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s", ranking it at number 94 Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading journalistic articles which described the disappearance of an older married couple. Scalzo said that "It's a romanticized take on what happened" - he "pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met." At the beginning of the song, it plays a radio scanning through the FM stations, and one of the songs is Jewel's 1997 song Foolish Games.
