Point of Know Return Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Maags 

Cover art for Point of Know Return lyrics by Kansas

Dreaming has two functions, the first is to rest the body, the second is to return to the point of origin.

This song is talking about being born.

I heard the men saying something The captains tell they pay you well And they say they need sailing men to Show the way, and leave today Was it you that said, "How long, how long?"

Before we were born, we wanted to come to earth, and we knew there would be both joy and pain here. Still, we also knew that by coming here we would lose the knowledge of where we were. So being born, meant to completely change into a new creature, a new life. There was much anticipation to be on earth and yet fear. Because in order to enter earth, in an earthly body, we must die as well.

The ocean of darkness is being in the womb. When we first discovered physical darkness.

"Today I found a message floating In the sea from you to me You wrote that when you could see it You cried with fear, the Point was near Was it you that said, "How long, how long To the Point of Know Return?"

The floating message was the point of light in the darkness. The vagina opening for birth, or the doctor opening the uterus for birth.

Still...when we dream at night, we go back to that other world and live and bring back knowledge to live this life on earth as well.

The point of "knowledge" returning ? What this lyricist is trying to convey, is the moving of the soul between realms, Earth itself being a realm. The dream realm, the physical realm, the ethereal realm, they all exist together and need to synchronize in order to function under the laws of destiny.

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