It’s quite a tragic story, actually.

In the mid-1990s an elderly couple in Texas drove off one day to a Pioneer Day festival and didn’t return. According to reports at the time, she had Alzheimer’s disease and he was recovering from brain surgery.

Fastball bassist Tony Scalzo wrote the song but left the specific details out. It became the band’s only hit, a smash in 1998.

Spencer Day has recorded the song now, available on YouTube, in a style uniquely his own that ruminates on both the hope and melancholy of the original lyrics.