The Trader Lyrics

(Hi) Trader, trader sailed to Jewels Crown
Humanity rode the waves
Exploring to command more land
Scheming how to rule the waves
Trader spied a virgin plain
And named it for velvet robes
Wrote home declaring there′s a place
But totally folks are free

Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
And animals stalk the mountains and the seasides
And fish abound in lakes and birds in skies
Signed, sincerely

Trader found the Jewel Clan
Was occupied before he came
By humans of a second look
Who couldn't even write their name
Shame
Trader said they′re not as good
As folks who wear velvet robes
Wrote home again and asked, "Please help
The rest I see, they're not like me"

But banish them from our prairies and our hillsides
Clear them from our mountains and our seasides
Or want them off our lakes, so please reply
Signed, sincerely

Trader, he got the crown, okay
Cleared humanity from his way
He civilized all he saw
Making changes every civil day
Saying

Shops spread over the prairies and the hillsides
Then roads cut through the mountains to the seasides
The other kind fled to hide by and by
And so sincerely cried

Making it softly
Like the evening sea
Trying to be
Making it go
Creating it gently
Like a morning breeze
A life of ease
Eyes that see
Beyond tomorrow
Through to the time without hours
Passing the Eden of flowers
Reason to live
Embracing together
Like the merging streams
Crying dreams
Making it full
Begging intently
For a slight reprieve
A night of ease
Hands to touch
Beyond the sorrow
Onto the force without power
Piercing the crust of a tower
Reason to live

Ah, hoping
Like a budding rose
Humble and chose
Making it
Struggling lonely
Like a desert field
Break the seal
Make it real
Ears to hear
Beyond the showers
Onto the suns of tomorrows
Burning the flesh of all sorrows
Reason to live

Reason to continue
Reason to go on
Reason to live
Reason to live
Reason to live
Reason to live