Until It Happens
Unveiling Life's Transformations: Until It Happens by Yo La Tengo
Lyrics
The mind collides
The collision of thoughts or ideas in the mind.
Reassembles on the other side
The process of reorganizing thoughts or perspectives after a collision.
In flight, until it happens to you
Experiencing a transformative moment while in motion, until it happens to the individual.
Between the lines
Reading between the lines, seeking deeper understanding.
Vision blurs so there's no time
Vision becomes unclear, leaving no opportunity for second thoughts.
To think twice until it happens to you
No time for reflection until a transformative experience occurs.
Prepare to die
A provocative statement urging preparedness for a significant event or realization.
Prepare yourself while there's still time
Advising self-preparation while there is still time before a crucial event.
It's simple to do
An assertion that the process is simple.
And then it happens to you
An inevitability, something that will happen to the individual.
We know, we have no doubt
Expressing certainty and confidence in the truth of one's statements.
Confident that the shit we spout is true
Belief in the validity of spoken words until a transformative event challenges it.
Until it happens to you
The realization that truth is relative and subject to personal experience.
No idea is too far-out
An openness to unconventional ideas until they become personally experienced.
Until it happens to you
Reinforcing the idea that understanding deepens through personal experience.
Stay alive
An urging to stay alive, possibly both physically and mentally.
Look away from the hands of time
Advising to avoid confronting the passage of time directly.
It's simple to do
Emphasizing the simplicity of a particular action or mindset.
And then it happens to you
An inevitability, suggesting that a transformative event will occur.
Prepare to die
A repetition of the provocative statement about preparing for a significant event.
Prepare yourself while there's still time
A reaffirmation of the need for self-preparation before a crucial event.
Stay alive
Reiteration of the importance of staying alive, possibly in a metaphorical sense.
Look away from the hands of time
Reiterating the advice to look away from the direct impact of time.
Maybe I find it simpler to believe I'm blind
Considering the possibility of finding comfort in ignorance when facing a transformative experience.
When it happens to you
Reiteration of the inevitability that the transformative event will happen to the individual.
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