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Undiscovered First Lyrics
I had what I thought were clear open eyes, bright blue.
Vision of a lake, carryin' pictures to lay on you.
Close the blinds, let 'em in, don't mind openin' at the edge of love.
You can't un-think a thought, either it's there or not.
Shadows of the mountain,
don't tell them what's under.
The breadth and the height
of an undiscovered first.
Now hopeful mountaineers climb up to eclipse like the whole sun.
Cause it's been said that two would know what to do, it'd been told.
Shadows of the mountain,
don't tell them what's under.
The breadth and the height
of an undiscovered first.
Shadows of the mountain,
don't tell them what's in store.
The height and the breadth,
is it wrong to want more?
IS THIS THE RIGHT MOUNTAIN
FOR US TO CLIMB?
IS THIS THE WAY TO LIVE
FOR YOU TO BE MINE?
IS THIS THE RIGHT RIVER
FOR US TO FORD?
IS THIS THE WAY YOU LIVE
FOR ME TO BE YOURS?
IS THIS THE WAY TO LIVE
FOR ME TO BE YOURS?
IS THIS THE WAY TO LIVE?
IS IT WRONG TO WANT MORE?
(Is this the way to live for me to be yours?
Is this the way to live? Is it wrong to want more?)
Vision of a lake, carryin' pictures to lay on you.
Close the blinds, let 'em in, don't mind openin' at the edge of love.
You can't un-think a thought, either it's there or not.
don't tell them what's under.
The breadth and the height
of an undiscovered first.
Cause it's been said that two would know what to do, it'd been told.
don't tell them what's under.
The breadth and the height
of an undiscovered first.
don't tell them what's in store.
The height and the breadth,
is it wrong to want more?
FOR US TO CLIMB?
IS THIS THE WAY TO LIVE
FOR YOU TO BE MINE?
FOR US TO FORD?
IS THIS THE WAY YOU LIVE
FOR ME TO BE YOURS?
FOR ME TO BE YOURS?
IS IT WRONG TO WANT MORE?
Is this the way to live? Is it wrong to want more?)
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The correct title is just 'Undiscovered First'.
For gawd's sake, explain the darn song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Repeat after condesending me...the name of this music site is SONGMEANINGS. I'll take it slow; that's SONG MEANINGS. Some of us are a little slow on the uptake so we needs others to translate. Would you please translate? I'd offer you whipped cream and a cherry but you might just get the wrong idea;) (Man, that cherry train left the depot years ago. Toot Toot)
For gawd's sake, explain the darn song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Repeat after condesending me...the name of this music site is SONGMEANINGS. I'll take it slow; that's SONG MEANINGS. Some of us are a little slow on the uptake so we needs others to translate. Would you please translate? I'd offer you whipped cream and a cherry but you might just get the wrong idea;) (Man, that cherry train left the depot years ago. Toot Toot)
"You can't un-think a thought, either it's there or its not." This line totally sets the stage for the rest of the song. There's something wrong and she isn't sure if she should voice the problem or not. Basically she's getting seriously involved with someone and is unsure if it's what she wants. The mountain is the relationship and the thing that is under it is some kind of secret or problem that is making her doubt getting involved with whoever she is singing to. The mountaineers, believing they would know what to do, try to climb the mountain, or in other words the relationship, but there's still the underlying uncertainty. When the song is reaching its climax basically she is asking "should we do this, should we ignore the problem to continue this relationship even though there's always going to be something hiding just under the surface?"
If you listen to the Spotify interview with the artist, she talks about her thoughts behind the song. She talks about the song as if it's a personal journey to find answers in one's own life, rather then the questioning of a relationship. She says "A solitary person is climbing a mountain, and there going to see an oracle who's sitting at the top, who has a long beard that goes all the way down the mountain because he's been there for thousands of years. Along the way the man meets three wise women (mountain climbers) who are floating above the mountain and speak in unison like a Greek chorus. They give this man a little bit of wisdom to keep him climbing. Finally he reaches the top and he see's the wise man and all this wisdom comes to him in the form of more rhetorical questions that can never be answered. This causes an avalanche and basically the mountain crumbles under his feet."
It's like... the possible future of their relationship is like a great big undiscovered mountain. She doesn't know what's ahead and whether she wants it.