"It is hinting around where you start to see where it ceases to be impossible when you think about what a country or a place can become. And when does it stop being something unbelieveable and something you can act upon to try and change when you realize that there's something inside of yourself you need to fix. Basically, when do you wake up from denial?"
Its about a nation drifting towards the same situations in Japan and Germany in the second world war. There is nothing bad in the German or Japanese psyche that would make them more likely to instigate this. A warning that nothing is impossible and we should always question the power that people and counties adopt and accept as rightfully theirs. If it can happen to countries a unlikely as these, what chance do other countries have. Its asking you to wake up and change before its too late. The fact that Jeff writes it as a love song to his country makes it all the more poignant. A devastatingly intelligent song.
I know this comment is a few years too late, but I completely agree with you. I was just reminded of this track after watching "Ashes of American Flags." My wife sent me this album on an ipod while I was in Iraq for my third tour and listened to the "Impossible Germany" track over and over again, trying to figure it out. Especially trying to figure everything out with where I was and what I had seen. I completely agree in your interpretation of the track that its "A warning that nothing is impossible and we should always question...
I know this comment is a few years too late, but I completely agree with you. I was just reminded of this track after watching "Ashes of American Flags." My wife sent me this album on an ipod while I was in Iraq for my third tour and listened to the "Impossible Germany" track over and over again, trying to figure it out. Especially trying to figure everything out with where I was and what I had seen. I completely agree in your interpretation of the track that its "A warning that nothing is impossible and we should always question the power that people and counties adopt and accept as rightfully theirs." One of my favorite songs ever. Thanks for helping me make sense of it.
"It is hinting around where you start to see where it ceases to be impossible when you think about what a country or a place can become. And when does it stop being something unbelieveable and something you can act upon to try and change when you realize that there's something inside of yourself you need to fix. Basically, when do you wake up from denial?"
Its about a nation drifting towards the same situations in Japan and Germany in the second world war. There is nothing bad in the German or Japanese psyche that would make them more likely to instigate this. A warning that nothing is impossible and we should always question the power that people and counties adopt and accept as rightfully theirs. If it can happen to countries a unlikely as these, what chance do other countries have. Its asking you to wake up and change before its too late. The fact that Jeff writes it as a love song to his country makes it all the more poignant. A devastatingly intelligent song.
I know this comment is a few years too late, but I completely agree with you. I was just reminded of this track after watching "Ashes of American Flags." My wife sent me this album on an ipod while I was in Iraq for my third tour and listened to the "Impossible Germany" track over and over again, trying to figure it out. Especially trying to figure everything out with where I was and what I had seen. I completely agree in your interpretation of the track that its "A warning that nothing is impossible and we should always question...
I know this comment is a few years too late, but I completely agree with you. I was just reminded of this track after watching "Ashes of American Flags." My wife sent me this album on an ipod while I was in Iraq for my third tour and listened to the "Impossible Germany" track over and over again, trying to figure it out. Especially trying to figure everything out with where I was and what I had seen. I completely agree in your interpretation of the track that its "A warning that nothing is impossible and we should always question the power that people and counties adopt and accept as rightfully theirs." One of my favorite songs ever. Thanks for helping me make sense of it.