The Trader-The Beach Boys

[ti:The Trader] [ar:The Beach Boys] [al:Holland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.74]Hi [00:01.86]Trader [00:05.98]Trader sailed a jeweled crown [00:09.47]Humanity rowed the way [00:13.22]Exploring to command more land [00:17.65]Scheming how to rule the waves [00:22.64]Trader spied a virgin plain [00:26.07]And named it for velvet robes [00:29.82]Wrote home declaring [00:31.56]There's a place [00:33.75]Where totally folks are free [00:37.62]Happily completely [00:39.36]Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides [00:42.73]And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside [00:46.91]And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies [00:50.78]Signed sincerely [00:53.34]Trader found the jeweled land [00:56.77]Was occupied before he came [01:01.33]By humans of a second look [01:05.32]Who couldn't even write their names shame [01:10.81]Trader said they're not as good [01:13.49]As folks who wear velvet robes [01:17.68]Wrote home again and asked Please help [01:21.61] [01:22.29]Their breasts I see they're not like me [01:26.04]Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides [01:30.78]Clear them from our mountains and our seaside [01:34.52]I want them off our lakes so please reply [01:38.46]Signed sincerely [01:44.89] [01:48.25]Trader he got the crown okay [01:50.81]Cleared humanity from his way [01:55.18]He civilized all he saw [01:59.05]Making changes every single day say [02:03.04]Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides [02:07.97]Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside [02:11.97]The other kind fled to hide by and by [02:16.09]And so sincerely [02:18.08]Cried [02:21.76] [02:26.32]Making it softly [02:29.38]Like the evening sea trying to be [02:34.06]Making it go [02:35.99]Creating it gently [02:38.61]Like a morning breeze a life of ease [02:44.73]Eyes that see [02:47.47]Beyond tomorrow through to the time without hours [02:55.33]Passing the Eden of Flowers [02:59.39]Reason to live [03:01.39]Embracing together [03:05.44]Like the merging streams crying dreams [03:09.50]Making it full [03:11.99]Begging intently [03:15.49]For a slight reprieve a night of ease [03:20.42]Hands to touch [03:23.35] [03:25.72]Beyond the sorrow on to the force without power [03:31.21]Piercing the crust of the tower [03:35.08]Reason to live [03:37.53] [03:56.61]Hoping [03:58.98]Like a budding rose humbling shows [04:03.85]Making it [04:05.53]Struggling lonely [04:09.02]Like a desert field break the seal make it real [04:16.20]Ears to hear [04:19.82]Beyond the showers on to the suns of tomorrows [04:27.50]Burning the flesh of all sorrows [04:34.05]Reason to live [04:38.29]Reason to continue [04:42.29]Reason to go on [04:46.84]Reason to live [04:50.71]Reason to live [04:53.45]Reason to live