Sung By: Joe Nichols.
Written by Kelley Lovelace
and Lee Thomas Miller.
From "Man With A Memory" © 2002
The Impossible
My dad chased monsters from the dark
and checked underneath my bed.
He could lift me with one arm
way up over top his head.
He could loosen rusty bolts
with a quick turn of his wrench.
He pulled splinters from his hand
and never even flinched.
In thirteen years
I’d never seen him cry
But the day that Grandpa died,
I realized...
Unsinkable ships sink.
Unbreakable walls break.
Sometimes the things you think
will never happen
happen just like that.
Unbendable steel bends,
if the fury of the wind
is unstoppable.
I’ve learned to never underestimate
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Then there was my junior year,
Billy had a brand new car.
It was late, the road was wet,
I guess the curve was just too sharp.
I walked away without a scratch,
they brought the helicopter in.
Billy couldn’t feel his legs,
they said he’d never walk again.
But Billy said he would,
and his mom and daddy prayed.
And the day we graduated
he stood up and said...
Unsinkable ships sink.
Unbreakable walls break.
Sometimes the things you think
will never happen
happen just like that.
Unbendable steel bends,
if the fury of the wind
is unstoppable.
I’ve learned to never underestimate
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
So don’t tell me that it’s over,
don’t give up on you and me.
Because there’s no such thing as hopeless
if you believe...
Unsinkable ships sink.
Unbreakable walls break.
Sometimes the things you think
will never happen
happen just like that.
Unbendable steel bends,
if the fury of the wind
is unstoppable.
I’ve learned to never underestimate
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Written by Kelley Lovelace
and Lee Thomas Miller.
From "Man With A Memory" © 2002
The Impossible
My dad chased monsters from the dark
and checked underneath my bed.
He could lift me with one arm
way up over top his head.
He could loosen rusty bolts
with a quick turn of his wrench.
He pulled splinters from his hand
and never even flinched.
In thirteen years
I’d never seen him cry
But the day that Grandpa died,
I realized...
Unsinkable ships sink.
Unbreakable walls break.
Sometimes the things you think
will never happen
happen just like that.
Unbendable steel bends,
if the fury of the wind
is unstoppable.
I’ve learned to never underestimate
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Then there was my junior year,
Billy had a brand new car.
It was late, the road was wet,
I guess the curve was just too sharp.
I walked away without a scratch,
they brought the helicopter in.
Billy couldn’t feel his legs,
they said he’d never walk again.
But Billy said he would,
and his mom and daddy prayed.
And the day we graduated
he stood up and said...
Unsinkable ships sink.
Unbreakable walls break.
Sometimes the things you think
will never happen
happen just like that.
Unbendable steel bends,
if the fury of the wind
is unstoppable.
I’ve learned to never underestimate
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
So don’t tell me that it’s over,
don’t give up on you and me.
Because there’s no such thing as hopeless
if you believe...
Unsinkable ships sink.
Unbreakable walls break.
Sometimes the things you think
will never happen
happen just like that.
Unbendable steel bends,
if the fury of the wind
is unstoppable.
I’ve learned to never underestimate
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
