Trader

Hi

Trader



Trader sailed a jeweled crown

Humanity rowed the way

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 where totally folks are free"



Happily completely

Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides

And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside

And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies

Signed sincerely



Trader found the jeweled land

Was occupied before he came

By humans of a second look

Who couldn't even write their names, shame



Trader said they're not as good

As folks who wear velvet robes

Wrote home again and asked, "Please help

Their breasts I see, they're not like me"



Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides

Clear them from our mountains and our seaside

I 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 single day, say



Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides

Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside

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

On to the force without power

Piercing the crust of the tower

Reason to live



Hoping like a budding rose

Humbling shows

Making it struggling lonely

Like a desert field

Break the seal, make it real



Ears to hear beyond the showers

On to 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