Fastball - The Way (SUPERSCALED TO 4K) (25th Anniversary)

"The Way" is a song by American band Fastball. It was released on January 7, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, All the Pain Money Can Buy.

Fastball 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, about 17 miles away, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, over 400 miles off their intended route. 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.

The beginning of the song features a radio scanning through FM stations. Most of the content heard is advertisements, and at one point, the radio tunes in while "Foolish Games" by Jewel is playing.

The single was certified gold in the US with sales of over 500,000 copies while hitting #1 on the Adult Alternative, Modern Rock and Alternative Airplay charts. It also got to #1 in Canada on the Canada Top Singles and Rock/Alternative charts. It was also in the top 5 on both those Canadian year-end charts.