Back to songs
How Can It Be by Lauren Daigle

How Can It Be

Lauren Daigle

Christian/GospelPopContemporary Christian Music
awe-struckhopeful
0:00/0:00
Interpretation

Where "Inevitable" walks slowly, this song opens like a door swinging wide — a rush of piano, light percussion, and Daigle's voice meeting you at full presence from nearly the first breath. The production has a brightness that feels almost cinematic, the kind of arrangement that swells naturally rather than being engineered to hit emotional peaks. Daigle sings here from a place of profound disorientation — the bewilderment of receiving something you've been told, or told yourself, you don't deserve. Her voice carries a particular texture in this song: rich and warm in the lower registers, luminous and slightly fragile as she reaches upward, as though she's still learning the dimensions of what she's describing. The lyrical core circles the paradox of grace — that it operates outside logic, that it comes to people who, by any reasonable accounting, should not receive it. There's no triumphalism in the delivery, which is what keeps the song honest. The gospel influence runs deep here, the call-and-response architecture of the chorus feeling almost communal, like it was written to be sung in a room full of people who each have their own version of the same story. It's a Sunday morning song and also a 3 a.m. song — wherever someone is sitting inside their own disbelief that something good could be meant for them.

Attributes
Energy6/10
Valence7/10
Danceability3/10
Acousticness4/10
Tempo

medium

Era

2010s

Sonic Texture

bright, warm, full

Cultural Context

American gospel-rooted contemporary Christian

Structured Embedding Text
Christian/Gospel, Pop. Contemporary Christian Music.
awe-struck, hopeful. Opens with bright disorientation and bewilderment at undeserved grace, building communally toward quiet, honest wonder rather than triumphalism..
energy 6. medium. danceability 3. valence 7.
vocals: rich warm female, luminous upper register, slightly fragile, emotionally present.
production: bright piano, light percussion, cinematic strings, communal harmonies.
texture: bright, warm, full. acousticness 4.
era: 2010s. American gospel-rooted contemporary Christian.
Sunday morning or 3 a.m. when sitting inside the disbelief that something good could actually be meant for you.
ID: 184185Track ID: catalog_48cefb169225Catalog Key: howcanitbe|||laurendaigleAdded: 3/28/2026Cover URL