This seems to me to be a song about the European discovery of the New World, and how the discoverers had entirely the wrong attitude towards it. The first verse says that they shouldn't have gotten excited about the discovery of new land, what they SHOULD have gotten excited about was the discovery of new PEOPLE. But they didn't value the people they discovered at all.
This seems to me to be a song about the European discovery of the New World, and how the discoverers had entirely the wrong attitude towards it. The first verse says that they shouldn't have gotten excited about the discovery of new land, what they SHOULD have gotten excited about was the discovery of new PEOPLE. But they didn't value the people they discovered at all.