Even before The Menzingers released 2012’s On The Impossible Past, it was within those last three words that the band existed. Taken from a phrase uttered by the protagonist Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s beautifully written novel Lolita – “I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past” – the title of the Scranton band’s third album sums up their essence perfectly. Because there’s always been a desperate yearning for what was and what can never be again woven into the fabric of their songs. On Time Tables, one of the standout tracks from 2010’s Chamberlain Waits, co-frontman Greg Barnett spills his guts in a desperate attempt to recapture what couldn’t even be captured in the first place. In four simple gut-wrenching lines, he lays down an offering to ...