The Trader

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Trader sailed a jeweled crown humanity rowed the way
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Exploring to command more land, scheming how to rule the waves.
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Trader spied a virgin plain and named it for velvet robes
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Wrote home declaring there's a place where totally folks are free
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Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
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And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside
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And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies, signed sincerely.

Verse:

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

Chorus:

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.

Verse:

Trader he got the crown okay, cleared humanity from his way
He civilized all he saw making changes every single day, say

Chorus:

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
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cried.

Part 2:

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Making it softly, like the evening sea, trying to be
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Making it go.
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Creating it gently, like a morning breeze, a life of ease
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Eyes that see beyond tomorrow, through to the time without hours
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Passing the Eden of Flowers, reason to live.

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Embracing together, like the merging streams, crying dreams
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Making it full
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Begging intently, for a slight reprieve, a night of ease
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Hands to touch beyond the sorrow, on to the force without power
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Piercing the crust of the tower, reason to live.

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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,
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reason to live
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Reason to continue
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Reason to go on
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Reason to live
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Reason to live
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Reason to live