Fastball Lyrics

    ------ About the song Out Of My Head performed by Fastball

I always love listening this song. This is truly a ''superb'' song. This song has beautiful lyric. It's not just simply an easy-listening song. It helps you contemplate, yes indeed.

    ------ About the song The Way performed by Fastball

First, the last two lines of the chorus "... they wanted the highway... they're happier there today." I think the lyrics are actually "... they WANDER the highway... they're happier there today." I could be wrong, but it makes more sense. The definition of wander is to move about without a definite destination or purpose. That makes sense, as another line in the chorus is "... where were they going without ever knowing the way."

As for the story, what I had heard is that the song was written based on a newspaper article about a group of people, who were all parents, who decided to take a road trip and, somewhere along the way, disappeared.

There are a few lines/lyrics in the song that I think have specific meanings, based on what I learned while getting my minor in literature.

1: "... they left before the sun came up that day." Often, in literature, in many different ways, the sun represents time. Specifically, here, I think it's a reference to a time in their lives. They were all relatively young, they had young children. The lyrics could be drawing a parallel between the early time of day the characters in the song left, and the early time in their lives the people disappeared/died.

2: "... an exit to eternal summer slacking." In literature, seasons also represent time, such as the seasons in a person's life. Generally spring is childhood, summer is young adulthood, autumn is middle age and winter is old age. You could say these people were in the summer of their lives. Exit could mean death, and death is eternal. These people died as young adults, in the summer of their lives, and will "never get old and gray." So, "an exit to eternal summer slacking" is a perfect metaphor.

3: "... it's always summer, they'll never get cold... they'll never get hungry... they'll never get old and gray." Exactly like the previous example, these lyrics are a perfect metaphor for the fact that these people died as young adults, and, if you believe in a Christian version of an afterlife, they'll spend the rest of eternity as young adults in heaven, in the warmth and light of God's love. They'll never age, they'll never hunger.

4: "... Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold." In the Bible, part of Revelation 21:21 reads "... The great street of the city was of pure gold..." The reference to "Streets of gold" is generally and universally accepted as a metaphor for heaven, and is referenced over and over again in literature, throughout history, and throughout the world. It is not a huge leap of the imagination to interpret these lyrics in the song to mean that the people died, and are in heaven.

I have a few thoughts about a few of the other lyrics, but I'm going to leave it at that for tonight, because, lol, I think I've already spent too much time on this already. I'm not trying to show off, or trying to get people to think that I'm super-smart or anything. I just find this stuff really interesting. Like I said, I minored in literature, but I got my bachelor's in psychology, so I tend to analyze, and over-analyze, things a lot, usually to a fault. I love music, and I love taking what I know about literature and metaphors and trying to figure out what a person is trying to communicate through a song or a poem. It's almost like cracking a code: if you can figure it out, there's a feeling of great accomplishment, and you get to uncover a secret message.

    ------ About the song The Way performed by Fastball

I don't know why every time I listen to this incredibly lovely song I picture gypsies moving from one place to another. The walk paved in gold is the freedom they feel as they are never held back by the superficial-minded world. The children got caught up in the materialistic culture so they ended up being left behind by their freedom-loving parents.

    ------ About the song Out Of My Head performed by Fastball

Truly wonderful song and lyrics. Echoes of Elvis Costello at his very best, and so much more. I live in Bali and Hard Rock Radio here is grinding your song daily, hourly, to my great pleasure !! Keep up the good work Fastball !!! Very bests for the future from Ben, Ubud in Bali. +62 821 47 522 85. Call me anytime !!! Bx

    ------ About the song The Way performed by Fastball

I also saw an interview that it is based on a newspaper article about an elderly couple who left for vacation only to completely vanish. A few months later their RV was found, having gone off the road and crashed. Supposedly the writer of the song read a newspaper article about them, and gained inspiration from that. This makes the song the most meaningful, to me. That though they were doomed, they didn't care because they had been doing something they loved.

I believe the interview was on VH1's 100 Best Songs of the 90's

    ------ About the song Out Of My Head performed by Fastball

Nice song, but could be so much better. Hadn't heard it in years, looked it up and I'm surprised there's only one verse. Seems they could have had at least two, would make the song more interesting lyrically. But otherwise I like it.

    ------ About the song She's So High Above Me performed by Fastball

Many websites have mistakenly reported this song as belonging to either fastball or Everclear. but it belongs to neither group. The name of the artist is Tal Bachman. He's from Canada. Look it up people, before you put false information on the internet.

    ------ About the song The Way performed by Fastball

I like reading your interpretations of this songs lyrics.

I heard an interview with one of the band members when it came out. It's actually about euthanasia. The lyrics are almost completely metaphoric.

Envisage, if you will, a group of elderly people who decide that heaven will be much nicer that plodding through more painful and seemingly meaningless days on Earth. They each drank wine laced with a slow action poison late in the night, and while waiting for the poison to take effect they began talking about their lives and what they might expect in the afterlife. "When the car broke down they started walking" is a metaphor for leaving the body and the soul continuing on alone. "Where were they going without ever knowing the way" refers to the fact that none of us really know what comes after death.

The last verse about the children not being able to find them is fairly obvious. It's about the mourning and the feeling that you've 'lost' something when someone leaves your life.

As for the Chorus, "The road that they walk on is paved with gold" might refer to the bright light that people have reported seeing during near death experiences, or maybe it's just a metaphor for the supreme state of freedom and bliss that they can now experience in the afterlife.

That's how I interpret it. Have another listen, see what you think.

    ------ About the song The Way performed by Fastball

I think that the couple in hte song died in their sleep thats why they left before the sun came out, and thats why they'll never be hungry, or go gray, and they will always be warm, and the road is gold, that is their heaven and they are dead, maybe they don't know it thats why they don't now the way

    ------ About the song She's So High Above Me performed by Fastball

soooooo that pretty much means we shouldn't like beautiful songs like creep by radiohead as well right. I completely agree with Lupita it's just a song about an insecure guy who's in love but afraid.

And have you ever considered that it's not about differences between women and men but more class differences? For example he's an average joe daydreaming about a celebrity? yup that's what i thought.