It will change you like a lover

When you dive below the reef

And see the phosphorescent colors

Shimmer way beyond belief



But when taken to the surface

All that color fades away

'Cause when lifted out of water

Living coral turns to gray



But down deep, it's so bright

That the light won't leave you

You've seen this sight

And they can't believe you



'Cause your words go dull

And they never could explain

There is just no telling

Where you've been



On the map it shows the mountain

But I'd never seen a glimpse

Of the hundred miles of vista

Represented by an inch



That was just a trail of bread crumbs

All their words set out so clear

But there's nothing they could tell me

That could ever take me here



To this view, this height

That the heart remembers

It's proof, it's life

It's the burning ember



My words go cold

And there's nothing to explain

There is just no telling

Where I've been



When this sunrise sees me

The first light burns brand new

Seems so easy

To tell what I've been through



But my little camera can't keep up

With panoramas all around

There's just too much view to capture

When we stand on sacred ground



Though my mind cannot explain it

My heart's filled up to the sky

I know words could not contain it

But I'm fool enough to try



Then you smile at me

And my heart is listening

Your eyes, they speak

And there's nothing missing



It's quiet up here

We can listen to the wind

'Cause there's just no telling

Where we've been