The Trader-The Beach Boys

[ti:The Trader] [ar:The Beach Boys] [al:Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Trader - The Beach Boys [00:02.08]Trader [00:02.56] [00:06.22]Trader sailed a jeweled crown [00:08.42] [00:09.84]Humanity rowed the way [00:11.65] [00:13.71]Exploring to command more land [00:16.10] [00:17.86]Scheming how to rule the waves [00:20.59] [00:22.72]Trader spied a virgin plain [00:25.11] [00:26.18]And named it for velvet robes [00:28.21] [00:30.44]Wrote home declaring [00:31.36]There's a place [00:32.63] [00:34.56]Where totally folks are free [00:36.91] [00:39.01]Happily completely [00:40.15]Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides [00:42.48] [00:43.18]And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside [00:46.29] [00:47.22]And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies [00:50.76] [00:51.37]Signed sincerely [00:52.76] [00:54.14]Trader found the jeweled land [00:56.39] [00:57.46]Was occupied before he came [00:59.84] [01:01.59]By humans of a second look [01:04.12] [01:05.82]Who couldn't even write their names shame [01:08.80] [01:10.63]Trader said they're not as good [01:12.98] [01:14.09]As folks who wear velvet robes [01:16.49] [01:18.32]Wrote home again and asked Please help [01:20.85] [01:22.44]Their breasts I see they're not like me [01:25.61] [01:26.77]Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides [01:30.19] [01:31.05]Clear them from our mountains and our seaside [01:34.54] [01:35.07]I want them off our lakes so please reply [01:38.32] [01:39.25]Signed sincerely [01:41.03] [01:47.79]Trader he got the crown okay [01:50.02] [01:51.38]Cleared humanity from his way [01:54.10] [01:55.58]He civilized all he saw [01:57.89] [01:59.63]Making changes every single day say [02:03.33] [02:04.23]Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides [02:07.94] [02:08.49]Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside [02:11.77] [02:12.49]The other kind fled to hide by and by [02:16.02] [02:16.53]And so sincerely [02:18.80]Cried [02:19.32] [02:25.92]Making it softly [02:27.14] [02:29.47]Like the evening sea trying to be [02:32.92] [02:34.20]Making it go [02:35.12] [02:36.08]Creating it gently [02:37.17] [02:40.05]Like a morning breeze a life of ease [02:43.71] [02:44.89]Eyes that see [02:47.59]Beyond tomorrow through to the time without hours [02:55.54]Passing the Eden of Flowers [02:58.94] [02:59.65]Reason to live [03:00.79] [03:01.62]Embracing together [03:02.95] [03:05.55]Like the merging streams crying dreams [03:09.31] [03:10.33]Making it full [03:11.70] [03:12.55]Begging intently [03:13.29] [03:15.64]For a slight reprieve a night of ease [03:20.17] [03:21.12]Hands to touch [03:23.62]Beyond the sorrow on to the force without power [03:30.83] [03:31.50]Piercing the crust of the tower [03:34.81] [03:35.82]Reason to live [03:37.03] [03:56.93]Hoping [03:57.60] [03:59.01]Like a budding rose humbling shows [04:02.96] [04:03.95]Making it [04:04.86] [04:05.89]Struggling lonely [04:07.13] [04:09.68]Like a desert field break the seal make it real [04:15.77] [04:16.66]Ears to hear [04:18.98] [04:19.86]Beyond the showers on to the suns of tomorrows [04:26.49] [04:27.81]Burning the flesh of all sorrows [04:31.52] [04:34.13]Reason to live [04:36.06] [04:38.58]Reason to continue [04:40.34] [04:42.70]Reason to go on [04:44.31] [04:46.89]Reason to live [04:48.34] [04:50.87]Reason to live [04:51.79] [04:52.95]Reason to live