Impossible Possible

Words and Music by Amity Dry and Mike Carr

This is the first song I co-wrote with Mike Carr, and is in fact one of the few songs I have ever co-written at all. I have never wanted to co-write before as writing is such a personal and intimate thing, and I have only ever been able to write when I am completely alone. I find the idea of co-writing a bit like getting naked and reading your diary to someone, so you can understand why I was a little daunted by it! Little did I know that writing with Mike would change the way I write entirely, and make me so much better for it. Mike is a country singer/songwriter who has written hits for a lot of big name Australian country artists, and I wanted to write with him because I think country writers are the best writers there are. You can't get away with average lyrics in country music, you have to paint a picture, tell a story, but in a way we can all relate to while still making it original and unique. Believe me, that's a lot harder to do than it sounds! I have always written songs very quickly, once I have the first line it all flows out as fast as I can write it down, and I have never really edited my work. With Mike every word is chosen perfectly, every thought and line has to be the best most original way of saying something. While I now understand how much difference this makes, at the time it drove me nuts! We took longer to write one line than I normally take to write a whole song! When we came up with this song, we were talking through the story and what we wanted to say and I said “We need to say something like 'Make the impossible possible, but better.” And Mike said to me “How could we say it better than that? That's the name of the song.” And I thought he was crazy, I would never write a lyric like that. But he was right, it's something we all understand, but as obvious as it is, it's never been said like that before. After I wrote this song I went back to all the songs I had already written for the album and realised I could do so much better. So I scraped them all and began to write again. Nearly every song on True To Me was written after that day, and I have Mike driving me crazy to thank for it!

Rain on the highway
Tears in her eyes
She had the courage
To say goodbye
Far in the distance
The city lights
Drawing her closer
Away from a life
She never asked for
She made up her mind

To dream a little bit more
Believe a little bit more
Make the impossible possible.
Try a little bit harder
Climb a little bit higher
Make the impossible possible

He was the first man she ever loved
He had his problems
She'd had enough
It took her too long
To see her mistake
All of the childhood dreams he took away
She's going to search for
Before it's too late

To dream a little bit more
Believe a little bit more
Make the impossible possible.
Live while you get the chance
Give with all you have
Find what you're searching for
Dream a little bit more
Make the Impossible possible.
Try a little bit harder
Climb a little bit higher
Make the impossible possible
Make the impossible possible