It Can Happen Lyrics

Lyric discussion by RoundSparrow 

Cover art for It Can Happen lyrics by Yes

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.

My Interpretation