What most listeners don’t know is this song was written about a particularly unnerving true crime case.
Lela Howard was 83-years-old and was showing signs that she was suffering from Alzheimers disease.
Raymond Howard was 88-years-old and had recently suffered a stroke and a head injury which required surgery.
The couple said they would be fine, since they attend the festival every year.
Lela and Raymond Howard never returned home.
500 miles away a police officer pulled the couple over for driving at night with their headlights off.
Lela, who was driving, couldnt tell the officer where they lived.
The officer gave her a warning to turn her lights on and sent them on their way.
Three days after the couple was reported missing by their children, they attended a farmers market in Arkansas.
Family photograph of Lela and Raymond Howard,KVUE
A search of the couples home revealed that they left their cat, toiletries, and clothing behind.
The calendar in the Howard home was displaying February, though it was June when they left.
Despite this cases gruesome end, frontman Tony Scalzo says, Its a romanticized take on what happened.
The Howards children reported that they were happy the couple was together when they died.
