The Trader-The Beach Boys

[ti:The Trader] [ar:The Beach Boys] [al:Holland] [offset:0] [00:00.76]Hi [00:01.88]Trader [00:06.00]Trader sailed a jeweled crown [00:09.49]Humanity rowed the way [00:13.24]Exploring to command more land [00:17.67]Scheming how to rule the waves [00:22.66]Trader spied a virgin plain [00:26.09]And named it for velvet robes [00:29.84]Wrote home declaring [00:31.58]There's a place [00:33.77]Where totally folks are free [00:37.64]Happily completely [00:39.38]Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides [00:42.75]And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside [00:46.93]And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies [00:50.80]Signed sincerely [00:53.36]Trader found the jeweled land [00:56.79]Was occupied before he came [01:01.35]By humans of a second look [01:05.34]Who couldn't even write their names shame [01:10.83]Trader said they're not as good [01:13.51]As folks who wear velvet robes [01:17.70]Wrote home again and asked Please help [01:21.63] [01:22.31]Their breasts I see they're not like me [01:26.06]Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides [01:30.80]Clear them from our mountains and our seaside [01:34.54]I want them off our lakes so please reply [01:38.48]Signed sincerely [01:44.91] [01:48.27]Trader he got the crown okay [01:50.83]Cleared humanity from his way [01:55.20]He civilized all he saw [01:59.07]Making changes every single day say [02:03.06]Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides [02:07.99]Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside [02:11.99]The other kind fled to hide by and by [02:16.11]And so sincerely [02:18.10]Cried [02:21.78] [02:26.34]Making it softly [02:29.40]Like the evening sea trying to be [02:34.08]Making it go [02:36.01]Creating it gently [02:38.63]Like a morning breeze a life of ease [02:44.75]Eyes that see [02:47.49]Beyond tomorrow through to the time without hours [02:55.35]Passing the Eden of Flowers [02:59.41]Reason to live [03:01.41]Embracing together [03:05.46]Like the merging streams crying dreams [03:09.52]Making it full [03:12.01]Begging intently [03:15.51]For a slight reprieve a night of ease [03:20.44]Hands to touch [03:23.37] [03:25.74]Beyond the sorrow on to the force without power [03:31.23]Piercing the crust of the tower [03:35.10]Reason to live [03:37.55] [03:56.63]Hoping [03:59.00]Like a budding rose humbling shows [04:03.87]Making it [04:05.55]Struggling lonely [04:09.04]Like a desert field break the seal make it real [04:16.22]Ears to hear [04:19.84]Beyond the showers on to the suns of tomorrows [04:27.52]Burning the flesh of all sorrows [04:34.07]Reason to live [04:38.31]Reason to continue [04:42.31]Reason to go on [04:46.86]Reason to live [04:50.73]Reason to live [04:53.47]Reason to live