The Way
You wouldn’t think this song would have a deep meaing. In a terrible occurrence, Fastball’s hit “The Way” took inspiration from a newspaper article about an elderly couple who unexpectedly vanished while visiting a music festival in Texas, which inspired the lyrics. When Fastball members was recording the song, they received information from the news that this certain couple were found lifeless inside their Oldsmobile submerged at the deepest part of a ravine, where the couple were driving. The band immediately sprang into action and released a statement.
The Way
Closing Time
The Hollywood Reporter said that Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson predicted the band’s single huge success would find a second chance in 2010, stating that he honestly believed it was the ultimate destiny for ‘Closing Time,’ that this would become a bartenders. To celebrate the those Rather than focusing on the wonder of birth, Wilson composed the lyrics saying it’s time for one to leave the areas one come from, which became a theme for late-night drinkers and those thrown out of a bar. Because Wilson as well as his spouse were anticipating their first-born just a few months after composing the song, it isn’t altogether unexpected that this is where the song got its inspiration from.
Closing Time
