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It Can Happen Lyrics
You can fool yourself
You can cheat until you're blind
You can cut your heart
It can happen
You can mend the wires
You can feed the soul apart
You reach
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
It's a constant fight
A constant fight
You're pushing the needle to the red
Black and White
Who know who's right
No substitute you're born you're dead
Fly by night
Created out of fantasy
Our destinations calls
Look up-Look down
Look out-Look around
Look up-Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in everyway
This world I like
We architects of life
A song a sigh
Developing words that linger
Through fields of green through open eyes
This for us to see
Look up-Look down
Look out-Look around
So look up-Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens it happens in everyway
As you happen to see
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere
Solo
Look up-Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
As you happen to see
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere
You can fool yourself
You can cheat until your blind
You can cut your heart
You can fool yourself (It can happen to you)
You can cheat until you're blind (It can happen to me)
You can cut your heart (It can happen to everyone eventually As you happen to say It can happen today As it happens it happens in every way)
You can mend the wires
You can feed the soul apart
You can touch your life
You can bring Your soul alive
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
As you happen to say
As it happens
It happens in every way
You can cheat until you're blind
You can cut your heart
It can happen
You can feed the soul apart
You reach
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
A constant fight
You're pushing the needle to the red
Black and White
Who know who's right
No substitute you're born you're dead
Fly by night
Created out of fantasy
Our destinations calls
Look out-Look around
Look up-Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in everyway
We architects of life
A song a sigh
Developing words that linger
Through fields of green through open eyes
This for us to see
Look out-Look around
So look up-Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
It can happen today
As it happens it happens in everyway
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere
You can cheat until your blind
You can cut your heart
You can fool yourself (It can happen to you)
You can cheat until you're blind (It can happen to me)
You can feed the soul apart
You can touch your life
You can bring Your soul alive
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
As it happens
It happens in every way
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I always wondered what the voice over says toward the end of the song
@grapefruitm00n The spoken passage is from The Importance of Being Earnest. It begins, "Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once…"
@grapefruitm00n The spoken passage is from The Importance of Being Earnest. It begins, "Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once…"
I believe the song is about healing oneself spritually First saying how you you can fool yourself ,cheat,and hurt you heart. but then goes on to say that you can mend the wires,which would be your heart and feed your soul ,your spirt.The one thing that keeps one from doing this is pride. Suprising to me the word Love isn't in the song,because Love heals all.
@mrtoycrazy love is in the song; JA says it in the end fade-out. IMO, that's the huge part of the song's meaning. If you listen closely, he says 'you can live your life for you; you can forgive yourself; you can love yourself'. That might not be the exact order of the statements, but iirc, the words are exactly that. Just my perspective, but that is one thing that makes the whole song powerfully meaningful.
@mrtoycrazy love is in the song; JA says it in the end fade-out. IMO, that's the huge part of the song's meaning. If you listen closely, he says 'you can live your life for you; you can forgive yourself; you can love yourself'. That might not be the exact order of the statements, but iirc, the words are exactly that. Just my perspective, but that is one thing that makes the whole song powerfully meaningful.
Chris Squire about "It Can happen": "That was a message of hope, and just making a way through the world looking for the good route - the one that suits you and leads on to better things. That's generally what that song's about."
the it that happens is something so major and life changing that it changes your whole outlook of the world. Namely, for the singer at least, it makes you see good in everything around you. Like a light has been shined into a cave you are trapped in. You instantly are hit with a wave of love for everyone. Like someone else said, it could be finding religion but you don't need that to be happy. You just suddenly realize "Everything is awesome."
To me the song is about making choices. We are born, we are pushing hard all the way through, Obviously one can make bad choices, (cheating as an example), and the bad that comes from those bad choices.
However, one can accept positivity... Can choose those relationships that inspire positivity and well-being (well being all the way around.. spiritual, physical, mental, etc...)
You can mend the wires (It is not too late to fix what is broken) You can touch your life (your actions can still be good or bad. it is a warning) You can bring your soul alive (You can be the best version of yourself) IT CAN HAPPEN! :-)
I loved this song , but never knew what it was about. A friend told me it was a warning for AIDS. and the risk of unprotected sex. He told me they gave out condoms at a concert during this song in 1983. Since this song came out just around the time Aids was hitting the news maybe its a possibilty.
The song is about spiritual awakening.... about how it can happen to you or anyone.
Key lines:
1) "You can cut your heart" (you can sabotage yourself)
2) "You're pushing the needle to the red... Black and White, Who know who's right?" (philosophy, even in science - 200 years ago what we thought about the speed of light and such as drastically changed the "truth" and "facts" as we know them about the universe. "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." ~Friedrich Nietzsche ).
3) "Look up-Look down, Look out-Look around, Look up-Look down" (This is a common spiritual message in many religions. One example, Joseph Campbell covers the Navajo Indian Pollen Path: The pollen path is the path to the center. The Navaho say, "Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path."
There are many more relevant lines in the song.
This song is so uplifting but not in a corny way (at least for the most part). And while it’s not as cool as some of their other songs, it doesn’t have to be, because uplifting is better sometimes. Besides, it’s simply a really good song.