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Oh, Can You See It

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Gaither Vocal Band spends most of "Oh, Can You See It" asking a single question rather than making a declaration — the repeated "can you see it" treats the coming kingdom as something requiring imagination before it requires belief.

The middle section catalogs that kingdom in deliberately small, ordinary images instead of grand ones: a candle rather than a bonfire, yeast quiet in dough, salt you can't see but can't deny either, a seed a child could grow. Each comparison insists the kingdom works by permeation, not force — "it gently comes to those who pray" closes that list on purpose, contrasting with the loud "oh oh oh" vocal runs that bookend the verses.

"A treasure poor can share it" and "a home where lonely find a friend" keep the vision specifically aimed at people usually left out of descriptions of glory. The song never resolves the question it keeps asking; it just keeps repeating "can you see it" as though sight itself, not certainty, is the first step being asked for.

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Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

A kingdom without end

God promised he would send

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

There’s a wider, beter place

that’s filled with peace and love and grace

Where all bitterness and hate

Are melted with a song

Light will shine and darkness will be gone

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

A kingdom without end

God promised he would send

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

A Love that keeps enduring

A hope that’s so assuring

A peace that never never ends

A kingdom meek inherit

a tresure poor can share it

a home where lonely find a friend

a little child shall know it

a little seed shall grow it

A little candle shall shows the way

Like yeast in dough is quiet

like salt you can’t deny it

it gently comes to those who pray

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

A kingdom without end

God promised he would send

Oh oh oh oh

Can you see it

Oh, Can You See It

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