I really liked that song when it came out, I was in my 40's but then I heard about the story behind it: The Way by Fastball Songfacts

I still remember when I got my first job out of college, working at Sears for nothing a week. I was still living at home, had no prospects and was hating life and had the fantasy of not getting off the freeway at my exit to go to work in the morning but to keep driving.

It took me until my 50's to quit with the automatic escapism and live my life more, getting the real rewards instead of the imagined ones. I do wish I had learned my lessons a bit earlier.