Lyrics to
Discovery

This version of Discovery was released by Chris De Burgh in 1977.

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Lady love, go back to sleep,
Dry the tears from your eyes,
But I cannot stay with thee,
Until the morning,
For the dawn is breaking,
And my ship is waiting for me,
And I must go,
But I’ll be back, yes,
Before this year is over;

And we sailed across the sea,
Till we found America,
‘Round the Cape of Storms,
We set our sails for home,
And when the sea was roaring,
And the Lord I called,
To help my drowning men,
I saw the light, yes, the candle in your window…

And I have brought you silver,
And I have brought you gold,
And spices from the Indies in the hold;
I’ve seen ships on the horizon,
That I’d swear were going down,
And now I know for certain,
The world is round,
I have seen, my eyes have seen.

Oh, one day says Galileo,
A man will reach the sky,
And see the world completely,
From outside,
And gazing down from yonder,
On a world of blue and green,
He’ll say with eyes of wonder,
I have seen, I have seen,
My eyes have seen.

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Chris De Burgh has released many songs over the years besides Discovery. Chris De Burgh released songs from 1975 to 2006 spanning across albums like Spanish Train And Other Stories, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, At The End Of A Perfect Day, Crusader, Eastern Wind, The Getaway, Man On The Line, Into The Light, Flying Colours, Power Of Ten, This Way Up, Beautiful Dreams, Quiet Revolution, Timing Is Everything, The Road To Freedom, and The Storyman. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chris De Burgh.

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About Lyrics and Discovery by Chris De Burgh

The lyrics for Discovery are defined as the words making up the song released by Chris De Burgh in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Discovery have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Chris De Burgh and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Discovery by Chris De Burgh if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Discovery" means the words set to the music of Discovery, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chris De Burgh. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Discovery and the lyrics to Discovery are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chris De Burgh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Discovery, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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