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Edit Lyrics They made up their minds, and they started packingThey left before the sun came up that dayAn exit to eternal summer slackingBut where were they going without ever knowing the way?They drank up the wine, and they got to talkingThey now had more important things to sayAnd when their car broke down they started walkingWhere were they going without ever knowing the way?Anyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in goldIt's always summer, they'll never get coldThey'll never get hungry, they'll never get old and grayYou can see their shadows wandering off somewhereThey won't make it home but they really don't careThey wanted the highway, they're happier there today, todayThe children woke up, and they couldn't find 'emThey left before the sun came up that dayThey just drove off and left it all behind 'em(Leavin' it all behind)Where were they going without ever knowing the way?Anyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in goldIt's always summer, they'll never get coldThey'll never get hungry, they'll never get old and grayYou can see their shadows wandering off somewhereThey won't make it home but they really don't careThey wanted the highway, they're happier there today, todayAnyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in goldIt's always summer, they'll never get coldThey'll never get hungry, they'll never get old and grayYou can see their shadows wandering off somewhereThey won't make it home but they really don't careThey wanted the highway, they're happier there today, today(Leavin' it all behind) New! Log in to start a snippet Song Info Copyright Lyrics © Concord Music Publishing Llc Producer Julian Raymond, Fastball Release date Mar 07, 1998 Sentiment Positive Submitted by sawg On Apr 21, 2001 More Fastball Out Of My Head You're An Ocean Fire Escape Sweetwater, Texas Are You Ready For The Fallout? 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 their car broke down they started walking Where were they going without ever knowing the way? Anyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in gold 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 happier 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 (Leavin' it all behind) Where were they going without ever knowing the way? Anyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in gold 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 happier there today, today Anyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in gold 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 happier there today, today (Leavin' it all behind) Correcting wrong lyrics Fixing missing lines Removing extra lines Updating to official version Switching between clean/explicit (official) Fixing line breaks or spacing Correcting stanza/section order Removing unofficial annotations or brackets Correcting punctuation or capitalization Fixing spelling/typo errors Removing non-lyric content Standardizing formatting Other (explain below) Lyrics saved successfully! Thanks! These lyrics are currently locked and can only be edited by moderators and administrators. You must be logged in to edit lyrics. Unable to save lyrics. Please try again. Lyrics cannot contain links. Lyric edit submitted successfully and is pending approval. Approvals usually take 24 hours. Edit Cancel Editing Tips Keep it true to the song

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a very quick search of the web shows:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3701

This song is based on the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple from Salado, Texas who drove to a nearby family reunion and kept going. She had Alzheimer's disease and he was recovering from brain surgery. When they disappeared, a reporter from the Austin American-Statesman wrote a series of articles about the missing couple. Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading the articles (the band is from Austin). He says, "It's a romanticized take on what happened" - he "pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met." However, he found out after writing the song that the couple had died. They were found at the bottom of a canyon in Arkansas about a 3-day drive from their destination. (thanks, Crystal - Springfield, MO)

My Interpretation a very quick search of the web shows: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3701 This song is based on the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple from Salado, Texas who drove to a nearby family reunion and kept going. She had Alzheimer's disease and he was recovering from brain surgery. When they disappeared, a reporter from the Austin American-Statesman wrote a series of articles about the missing couple. Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading the articles (the band is from Austin). He says, "It's a romanticized take on what happened" - he "pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met." However, he found out after writing the song that the couple had died. They were found at the bottom of a canyon in Arkansas about a 3-day drive from their destination. (thanks, Crystal - Springfield, MO) Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +9 Users: Reply · 2 Share by Wootlers 8y ago

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Hey, this post was well to point and tight. 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. 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.

So I posted one tonight that says the below: 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). But even if not consciously intended, I think this song deserves high praise for its transcendent lyrics....

So I posted one tonight that says the below: 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). But even if not consciously intended, I think this song deserves high praise for its transcendent lyrics.

Compare it to the recent hit song by Portugal. 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.

For example, the chaotic social landscape of 1960's and 1970's America certainly included examples of parents leaving children behind. Sometimes it was young women or couples on their way to Woodstock who might ditch their kids with moms & pops for way too long. 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."

I'm suggesting that The Way conveys very well a different story than that of two old senile people driving off the road. 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. the life they seem to face otherwise). And not all the ideas I have about why people might do that are dark or terrible. Sometimes maybe it's just 1971 and too much of what you were told has recently been proven BULLSHIT. 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.

Read more... Hey, this post was well to point and tight. 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. So I posted one tonight that says the below: 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). But even if not consciously intended, I think this song deserves high praise for its transcendent lyrics. Compare it to the recent hit song by Portugal. 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. For example, the chaotic social landscape of 1960's and 1970's America certainly included examples of parents leaving children behind. Sometimes it was young women or couples on their way to Woodstock who might ditch their kids with moms & pops for way too long. 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." I'm suggesting that The Way conveys very well a different story than that of two old senile people driving off the road. 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. the life they seem to face otherwise). And not all the ideas I have about why people might do that are dark or terrible. Sometimes maybe it's just 1971 and too much of what you were told has recently been proven BULLSHIT. 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. Reason: Edit Cancel by kizzlestix 16y ago

Odd coincidence....

Family takes comfort that elderly Calgary couple died together By Jen Gerson, Canwest News ServiceJune 3, 2010 11:04 PM



Missing elderly couple Allen Berrington, 90 and Margaret Berrington, 91 in Calgary, Alberta on June 2, 2010. Photograph by: Courtesy, Berrington family CALGARY – Allen and Margaret Berrington were married for nearly seven decades, lived in the same home for the past 50 years and were not the type of people to leave the city without a full tank of gas.

“They had a total love for each other. They were inseparable from the first and they stayed that way,” said Ken Berrington, the couple’s son.

As the Berringtons entered their 90s, they had become creatures of habit – for example, on Thursdays, they loved the seafood buffet at the Grey Eagle Casino.

And so their family is at a loss to explain how the couple wound up dead in a remote area about 70 kilometres northwest of their suburban Calgary bungalow. But they take comfort knowing the pair died together, their bodies found just 10 metres apart.

“They were together and they went together,” Ken said. “And we can take that as a positive.”

The winding roads that cross the wide swath of land between the Ghost and Red Deer rivers are usually home only to the bravest quad bikers and hikers. Cellphone coverage dies as the paved road west of Water Valley, Alta., turns to gravel.

Aside from the outdoor-types locals call “Weekenders,” only logging and oil company trucks pass through the area, where signs caution: “Roads not recommended for travel. Use at your own risk.”

The mystery remains as to how and why the Berringtons drove their 2007 dark grey Chrysler Sebring sedan into this backcountry, where they ultimately died.

After a weeklong search, the bodies of the couple were found on the rugged, isolate road by two dirt-bike riders, who called police.

It is believe that sometime over the weekend, the couple abandoned the car – its gas tank was empty – and walked three kilometres into the wilderness before succumbing to age and the elements.

Their bodies were found 10 metres apart.

The Berringtons were last seen by their son on Thursday for Margaret’s 91st birthday party. She and her 90-year-old husband failed to put away the chocolate cake and other snacks before leaving their home, locking the door behind them.

By Monday, the family realized something was wrong and called police, sparking a citywide search for the couple that involved dozens of police officers and countless aerial sweeps of the southwest suburb where they lived for more than fifty years.

Their car was found parked in the woods. There were no scratches or damage on its exterior and the interior was clean – save for a striped umbrella, orange shoe horn and handwritten directions to a location in Calgary.

According to local residents, the region’s roads quickly become impassable in poor weather, which plagued most of Alberta the weekend the Berringtons went missing.

As the couple drove farther from surrounding towns, the mud road they took narrowed to the width of a small alley. Soft shoulders and steep embankments would have made it impossible to turn around and – without a satellite phone – the Berringtons would have been unable to call for help.

Relatives say the Berringtons have family in nearby Cochrane and Water Valley, but it’s unlikely the two were trying to reach them.

“The mystery will never be unravelled,” said James Graham, the couple’s grandson. “I don’t understand why they made those choices. But I’m 100 per cent comfortable that they made those choices together and 100 per cent comfortable that they are at peace together.”

The family is satisfied with the police’s best guess: That the couple drove from their home and, somewhere along the way, got lost. The roads are poorly marked and the main road, Highway 579, connects with dozens of smaller, steeper trails.

“It gets very cold at night in Water Valley. It can get well below zero. I hope they used enough of the remaining gas to keep each other warm and, when that was exhausted, they went walking,” Graham said.

However, Graham said they would not have been able to walk a great distance through rugged terrain; the elderly pair were not hikers.

“It would have been a very frightening experience for them,” he said. “I imagine the decision to walk came out of desperation.”

The area is so remote that even local residents of Water Valley rarely venture there.

Sue Pierson, who runs the weekly coffee shop at the local community centre and has been a resident for more than three years, said she couldn’t understand how the Berringtons got so lost.

“I just don’t think that they would leave home in that weather,” she said. “Maybe they got into the backwoods and didn’t know which way was home.”

For the family of the Berringtons, the only consolation is that Allen and Margaret were together.

The pair – who met at a school dance in 1939 – had three children, eight grand children and 12 great-grandchildren.

Margaret was a housewife who studied home economics while in school, while Allen was a former air force pilot who worked for Telus after the war.

“Theirs was a classic love affair spanning seven decades,” Graham said. “They were inseparable in life. Truly a unified force.”

The family is making funeral arrangements and may combine their ashes.

“They could not have existed separately,” Graham said.

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

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Odd coincidence.... Family takes comfort that elderly Calgary couple died together By Jen Gerson, Canwest News ServiceJune 3, 2010 11:04 PM  Missing elderly couple Allen Berrington, 90 and Margaret Berrington, 91 in Calgary, Alberta on June 2, 2010. Photograph by: Courtesy, Berrington family CALGARY – Allen and Margaret Berrington were married for nearly seven decades, lived in the same home for the past 50 years and were not the type of people to leave the city without a full tank of gas. “They had a total love for each other. They were inseparable from the first and they stayed that way,” said Ken Berrington, the couple’s son. As the Berringtons entered their 90s, they had become creatures of habit – for example, on Thursdays, they loved the seafood buffet at the Grey Eagle Casino. And so their family is at a loss to explain how the couple wound up dead in a remote area about 70 kilometres northwest of their suburban Calgary bungalow. But they take comfort knowing the pair died together, their bodies found just 10 metres apart. “They were together and they went together,” Ken said. “And we can take that as a positive.” The winding roads that cross the wide swath of land between the Ghost and Red Deer rivers are usually home only to the bravest quad bikers and hikers. Cellphone coverage dies as the paved road west of Water Valley, Alta., turns to gravel. Aside from the outdoor-types locals call “Weekenders,” only logging and oil company trucks pass through the area, where signs caution: “Roads not recommended for travel. Use at your own risk.” The mystery remains as to how and why the Berringtons drove their 2007 dark grey Chrysler Sebring sedan into this backcountry, where they ultimately died. After a weeklong search, the bodies of the couple were found on the rugged, isolate road by two dirt-bike riders, who called police. It is believe that sometime over the weekend, the couple abandoned the car – its gas tank was empty – and walked three kilometres into the wilderness before succumbing to age and the elements. Their bodies were found 10 metres apart. The Berringtons were last seen by their son on Thursday for Margaret’s 91st birthday party. She and her 90-year-old husband failed to put away the chocolate cake and other snacks before leaving their home, locking the door behind them. By Monday, the family realized something was wrong and called police, sparking a citywide search for the couple that involved dozens of police officers and countless aerial sweeps of the southwest suburb where they lived for more than fifty years. Their car was found parked in the woods. There were no scratches or damage on its exterior and the interior was clean – save for a striped umbrella, orange shoe horn and handwritten directions to a location in Calgary. According to local residents, the region’s roads quickly become impassable in poor weather, which plagued most of Alberta the weekend the Berringtons went missing. As the couple drove farther from surrounding towns, the mud road they took narrowed to the width of a small alley. Soft shoulders and steep embankments would have made it impossible to turn around and – without a satellite phone – the Berringtons would have been unable to call for help. Relatives say the Berringtons have family in nearby Cochrane and Water Valley, but it’s unlikely the two were trying to reach them. “The mystery will never be unravelled,” said James Graham, the couple’s grandson. “I don’t understand why they made those choices. But I’m 100 per cent comfortable that they made those choices together and 100 per cent comfortable that they are at peace together.” The family is satisfied with the police’s best guess: That the couple drove from their home and, somewhere along the way, got lost. The roads are poorly marked and the main road, Highway 579, connects with dozens of smaller, steeper trails. “It gets very cold at night in Water Valley. It can get well below zero. I hope they used enough of the remaining gas to keep each other warm and, when that was exhausted, they went walking,” Graham said. However, Graham said they would not have been able to walk a great distance through rugged terrain; the elderly pair were not hikers. “It would have been a very frightening experience for them,” he said. “I imagine the decision to walk came out of desperation.” The area is so remote that even local residents of Water Valley rarely venture there. Sue Pierson, who runs the weekly coffee shop at the local community centre and has been a resident for more than three years, said she couldn’t understand how the Berringtons got so lost. “I just don’t think that they would leave home in that weather,” she said. “Maybe they got into the backwoods and didn’t know which way was home.” For the family of the Berringtons, the only consolation is that Allen and Margaret were together. The pair – who met at a school dance in 1939 – had three children, eight grand children and 12 great-grandchildren. Margaret was a housewife who studied home economics while in school, while Allen was a former air force pilot who worked for Telus after the war. “Theirs was a classic love affair spanning seven decades,” Graham said. “They were inseparable in life. Truly a unified force.” The family is making funeral arrangements and may combine their ashes. “They could not have existed separately,” Graham said. © Copyright (c) Canwest News Service  Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +3 Users: Reply · 1 Share by colten1053 6y ago

@kizzlestix Crazy. I am one of their great-grandchildren. This song (since that moment) always reminded me of them. I heard it on the radio today and looked up the lyrics, just to see that I wasn't the only one to make that connection.

@kizzlestix Crazy. I am one of their great-grandchildren. This song (since that moment) always reminded me of them. I heard it on the radio today and looked up the lyrics, just to see that I wasn't the only one to make that connection.

@[kizzlestix:34940] Crazy. I am one of their great-grandchildren. This song (since that moment) always reminded me of them. I heard it on the radio today and looked up the lyrics, just to see that I wasn't the only one to make that connection. Reason: Edit Cancel by Mudblood96 14y ago

I love this song. Every time I listen to it I get goose bumps and/or start to cry. Okay well anyways, I read this on this one website and it sounds pretty legit: "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. 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. Tony Scalzo, the bassist of the band, was inspired to write the song after reading the story." This gives a different meaning to the lines "And when the car broke down they started walking Where were they going without ever knowing the way?" meaning that after the car crashed their spirits just left the car and.... well you can figure out the rest. 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. Sorry if this didn't help anyone, I just thought I would put in my 2 cents worth(:

I love this song. Every time I listen to it I get goose bumps and/or start to cry. Okay well anyways, I read this on this one website and it sounds pretty legit: "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. 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. Tony Scalzo, the bassist of the band, was inspired to write the song after reading the story." This gives a different meaning to the lines "And when the car broke down they started walking Where were they going without ever knowing the way?" meaning that after the car crashed their spirits just left the car and.... well you can figure out the rest. 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. Sorry if this didn't help anyone, I just thought I would put in my 2 cents worth(: Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +3 Users: Reply · 3 Share by liveitwell 13y ago

When I was in middle school, I would spend hours on the internet trying to find the name/artist of this song. All I had to go off of was the beat, I didn't know any of the words. Once I found it, I started crying cause I knew I could read/learn the lyrics, I couldn't wait to show my younger siblings. This song brings back so many good feelings and memories, I'll never forget. :] I guess what I'm trying to say, is I know what you mean with your goosebumps; I get them too! I love it :D

When I was in middle school, I would spend hours on the internet trying to find the name/artist of this song. All I had to go off of was the beat, I didn't know any of the words. Once I found it, I started crying cause I knew I could read/learn the lyrics, I couldn't wait to show my younger siblings. This song brings back so many good feelings and memories, I'll never forget. :] I guess what I'm trying to say, is I know what you mean with your goosebumps; I get them too! I love it :D

When I was in middle school, I would spend hours on the internet trying to find the name/artist of this song. All I had to go off of was the beat, I didn't know any of the words. Once I found it, I started crying cause I knew I could read/learn the lyrics, I couldn't wait to show my younger siblings. This song brings back so many good feelings and memories, I'll never forget. :] I guess what I'm trying to say, is I know what you mean with your goosebumps; I get them too! I love it :D Reason: Edit Cancel by Clocker 11y ago

@Mudblood96 Oh wow, I thought this song was about child abandonment.

@Mudblood96 Oh wow, I thought this song was about child abandonment.

@[Mudblood96:3678] Oh wow, I thought this song was about child abandonment. Reason: Edit Cancel by Pubow 5y ago

@Mudblood96 glad to hear I’m not the only grownup who gets teary at that song! It hit me that way when it came out in’98 and still does - well before I heard the background story. Just something about the bittersweet story and groove of the song. A few other songs donthe same thing to me and it’s got nothing tondo with lyrics - hell I can’t understand them all half the time : )

@Mudblood96 glad to hear I’m not the only grownup who gets teary at that song! It hit me that way when it came out in’98 and still does - well before I heard the background story. Just something about the bittersweet story and groove of the song. A few other songs donthe same thing to me and it’s got nothing tondo with lyrics - hell I can’t understand them all half the time : )

@[Mudblood96:36034] glad to hear I’m not the only grownup who gets teary at that song! It hit me that way when it came out in’98 and still does - well before I heard the background story. Just something about the bittersweet story and groove of the song. A few other songs donthe same thing to me and it’s got nothing tondo with lyrics - hell I can’t understand them all half the time : ) Reason: Edit Cancel by smallthoughts 22y ago

Everyone knows that Heaven is a place that you go when you die, right? To break down the chorus: "the road that they walk on is paved in gold" --Heaven's streets are supposedly gold. "And it's always summer they'll never get cold They'll never get hungry They'll never get old and gray" -- stuff like that doesn't happen in Heaven "You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere" -- spirits? "They won't make it home but they don't really care They wanted the highway They're happy there today" -- It's said that people don't miss their earthly lives at all once they get to Heaven. So, in all probability, both the death and spiritual views of this song could be correct.

Everyone knows that Heaven is a place that you go when you die, right? To break down the chorus: "the road that they walk on is paved in gold" --Heaven's streets are supposedly gold. "And it's always summer they'll never get cold They'll never get hungry They'll never get old and gray" -- stuff like that doesn't happen in Heaven "You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere" -- spirits? "They won't make it home but they don't really care They wanted the highway They're happy there today" -- It's said that people don't miss their earthly lives at all once they get to Heaven. So, in all probability, both the death and spiritual views of this song could be correct. Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +2 Users: Reply · 0 Share by darkkisses 17y ago

This song is based on the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple from Salado, Texas who drove to a nearby family reunion and kept going. She had Alzheimer's disease and he was recovering from brain surgery. When they disappeared, a reporter from the Austin American-Statesman wrote a series of articles about the missing couple. Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading the articles (the band is from Austin). He says, "It's a romanticized take on what happened" - he "pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met." However, he found out after writing the song that the couple had died. They were found at the bottom of a canyon in Arkansas about a 3-day drive from their destination

This song is based on the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple from Salado, Texas who drove to a nearby family reunion and kept going. She had Alzheimer's disease and he was recovering from brain surgery. When they disappeared, a reporter from the Austin American-Statesman wrote a series of articles about the missing couple. Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading the articles (the band is from Austin). He says, "It's a romanticized take on what happened" - he "pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met." However, he found out after writing the song that the couple had died. They were found at the bottom of a canyon in Arkansas about a 3-day drive from their destination Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +2 Users: Reply · 0 Share by one hit wonder 24y ago

I read somwhere that the song was inspired by an article in a newspaper about a couple of old age that went to visit their family, but never arrived

I read somwhere that the song was inspired by an article in a newspaper about a couple of old age that went to visit their family, but never arrived Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +1 Users: Reply · 3 Share by punchypink 16y ago

yeah me too... I saw it back when there was this show about what the songs where about on vh1

yeah me too... I saw it back when there was this show about what the songs where about on vh1

yeah me too... I saw it back when there was this show about what the songs where about on vh1 Reason: Edit Cancel by punchypink 16y ago

and I really think that the article also mentioned that they had been found dead in their car... but it was a long time ago and I'm not sure about that one

and I really think that the article also mentioned that they had been found dead in their car... but it was a long time ago and I'm not sure about that one

and I really think that the article also mentioned that they had been found dead in their car... but it was a long time ago and I'm not sure about that one Reason: Edit Cancel by thecallofktulu1993 15y ago

The couple was actually on their way to a music festival, and they were found dead in a ravine somewhere miles away from their intended path.

The couple was actually on their way to a music festival, and they were found dead in a ravine somewhere miles away from their intended path.

The couple was actually on their way to a music festival, and they were found dead in a ravine somewhere miles away from their intended path. Reason: Edit Cancel by okmuhb 23y ago

Not that there is a raging debate about this, but for the curious, here is an article that says exactly what the inspiration for the song was. The morbid contributors were correct.

http://www.citybeat.com/archives/1998/issue427/coverarticle3.html

Not that there is a raging debate about this, but for the curious, here is an article that says exactly what the inspiration for the song was. The morbid contributors were correct. http://www.citybeat.com/archives/1998/issue427/coverarticle3.html Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +1 Users: Reply · 0 Share by DeadHeadMED 23y ago

the song IS about a couple who died, they commited suicide together becuase they didnt want to die alone without the other, the 'children' is there kids who are grown up and have families of their own

the song IS about a couple who died, they commited suicide together becuase they didnt want to die alone without the other, the 'children' is there kids who are grown up and have families of their own Reason: Edit Cancel ❤️ 💯 😂 🔥 😢 🤯 ❗ 🤔 +1 Users: Reply · 0 Share by SpineofaJellyFish 21y ago

lyricizer420 is right. I saw the show too. (I <3 VH1) It's a beautiful song about a not-so beautiful thing. Let me see if I have it straight. There was this old couple, they packed up their stuff and left. Their kids didn't hear from them for a couple of days and they got worried. They went over to the house and they found their clothes out on their bed. They filed a missing persons report, but the old couple was no where to be found. Finally, a while later, they were found dead, at the bottom of a cliff, states away from where they lived.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

lyricizer420 is right. I saw the show too. (I