I read this about the album on another website.
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If Ernest Hemingway was alive today and making punk music, it would probably sound something like The Menzinger’s On the Impossible Past. The sound of the album is distinctly American, but more than that, the lyrics are comprised mostly of simple language that is capable, at times, of absolutely flooring you. Mundane moments transform into profound ones. A lovestruck couple carving their names into a cliffside becomes a springboard for the realization that “happiness is just a moment.” Being bored and drunk becomes a desperate avoidance of responsibility. And, most memorably, riding in an American-made car somehow encapsulates, briefly, everything that it means to be a part of this country. This album is monumental. It is the epitome of what every working-class, small-town band has been trying to do since pop music began. “All good things fall apart,” they shout. But heartbreak ends eventually, and good things still remain
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I didn't write this but somewhat wish I did. I think this passage perfectly encapsulates the album and expresses it in a way none of us here have been able to do so.