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I don't want to feel like I don't have a future.
I don't want to feel like it's an end of a summer.
Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to.
I don't want to wake up knowing I don't have a future.

Impossible. Your love is something I cannot remember.

I don't want to spend another day in this city.
I woke up thirsty, it's hard to go back you know.
Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to, do you remember?
I don't want to wake up knowing I don't have a future.

Impossible. Your love is something I cannot remember.
And there's a first time and a second time, you've got to hold on.
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember.

I don't want to see the same pictures all over.
And I've been standing on the same spot now since it's been over.
'Cause someone promised me a new chance, yes you promised.
I don't want to wake up knowing I don't have a future.

Impossible. Your love is something I cannot remember.
And there's a first time and a second time, you've got to hold on.
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember.

You are just like your mother, I'm just the same as the others.
Do you believe everything they write in all those magazines?
Stay out of love until you're ready, stay out of it 'cause it scares you.
You'll still find your love outside the public library.

I know it could happen to you.
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Cover art for Impossible lyrics by Shout Out Louds

This song might be the most beautiful song I've ever heard in the entirety of my life. It's definitely the best song of 2007 so far. I'm not sure exactly what it's about yet but maybe something about, for some reason or another, these two lovers can't be together. It's "Impossible." There's also some acknowledgment of commitment as something that "scares you." These lovers can't be together because they're afraid to commit, for whatever reasons (abandonment? past relationships?) I don't know yet, what do you guys think?

This is such a moving song.

Cover art for Impossible lyrics by Shout Out Louds

wow im

wow i just heard this i used to only see my ex boyfriend every six months or so and we'd always meet outside the public library in my town

what the fuck im completely taken aback right now

Cover art for Impossible lyrics by Shout Out Louds

The impression I got from this song is a little different from most.

I makes me think of a guy who got a girl pregnant and now is denying ever loving/making love to her.( your love is something I cannot remember)

You find your love outside the public library could be an insult to call her like, she just sleeps with random people

"I don't want to feel like I dont have a future." Self explainitory having a child could ruin his life, thus he has no future.

"Did you know it could happen to you?" I think is a warning to the listener, all this could happen to you.

Cover art for Impossible lyrics by Shout Out Louds

For me it seems like a broke-up, because one of the persons wasn't able to commit a relationship (kind of phobic "Stay out of love until you're ready, stay out of it 'cause it scares you"). The lyrical "I" and that person had a relationship, but latter simply wasn't able to show his/her love and always ran away , maybe even cheated on her/him."I don't want to feel like I don't have a future" The lyrical "I" apparently loves him/her , but at the same time he/she knows that it is useless being together as the other one simply is not able. But the lyrical I seems to be in a double bind as it doesn't "want to feel like it is an end of a summer", but it knows that the realationship will not make her/ him happy. It sounds as if they have just separated and that they are still close to each other and maybe it is even not the first time that they have separated .But " Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to" shows that they denied the truth while being together and that they should not come together anymore like "Let's not make the same mistake again". The second stanza explains the same for me. The city reminds the lyrical I of him/her and it is "thirsty", thirsty after love which he/ she never got from that person. Anyway, it is hurt by his/her behaviour and cannot "go back". So "it is impossible"... "your love is something i cannot remember" because this love was never there! How to remember something that it never felt??? Maybe the unable person is once ready for love but" there's a first time and a second time" it has got to hold on, but in a way the person still seems to be attached to the lyrical " I"and vise versa. It has a new chance ( a new love) now, a chance the unable person always promised, but actually he/ she never changed. the person might have problems with the new situation (seeing that his "love" is in a new relationship the person never was capable to) . In a manner he/she loved the lyrical I , but he/ she was not capable to bear the closeness. So the lyrical "I" wants him/her to "stay out of love until it is ready" and then "It will still find his love outside the public library" . "your love " is the lyrical "I" itself as the "still" indicates and when he/she is ready it can happen to him/her...happen to love the lyrical I that before felt like "the others". So for me the song is about a love that seems to be impossible ,because one of the persons is unable to commit a relationship and the impossible makes life for both difficult . Nevertheless there is some hope left in the end that the person changes and that they can be together again.

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Incredibly beautiful. My interpretation is that he is having a hard time moving on after a break-up, probably from a relationshit neither of them were ready for. He doesn't want to feel like it was his last chance for true love, like he lost 'the one'. He wants to be able to move on.

I feel that makes sense and that's a meaning I can relate a lot to.

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i think it might be "i woke up thursday". makes more sense that way

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This song is on mind all the time, one of the best from this great band!

Cover art for Impossible lyrics by Shout Out Louds

I think it's about someone who has been through some shit for too long.. both relationship wise and otherwise and FINALLY finds someone who they have this unbelievable bond with.. And everything was going wonderfully and natural.. And then the other person has problems commiting and so person #1 is like "Hey! What we have/had is really good! Why deny it? Stop being a pussy! I don't want to go back to the shit my life was before you.. lets not ignore what we obviously have."

Can you tell i can, uhh.. relate to person #1 right now? haha Great song.

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This song reminds me a lot of The Cure.

It is about a break up.

Cover art for Impossible lyrics by Shout Out Louds

Shanamaj is on point I wrote this song.

 
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