Seagull Book, formerly called Seagull Book & Tape, is an American retail chain bookstore focusing on products for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with over two dozen stores in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, and Nevada. It was the second largest LDS bookstore until being acquired in 2006 by market-leader Deseret Book, and since then Seagull has continued to operate as a discount chain, distinct from Deseret Book branded retail stores.
Seagull Book & Tape was founded in 1987 by V. Lewis Kofford, the owner of LDS publisher Covenant Communications. He had organized Covenant in 1984, which absorbed Covenant Recordings, an LDS audio tape producer which Kofford had owned since 1977. He intended Seagull to be a distribution channel for Covenant and other independent LDS publishers, and to fill a discount retail niche in the LDS market, by keeping low overhead and purchasing in volume. Headquartered in American Fork, Utah, the bookstore was initially a division of Covenant Communications, and later its "sister company".
Water and sand and the rising beyond my view
alone I stand here in silence, it's calling you
there is a reason to be here and cry
I know the ocean will understand why
the feeling the way I do
tasting the salt and the wind cries your name again
sharpened so cold makes me feel I've lost a friend
there's a reason that I'll never know
I couldn't follow why you had to go
and I can't comprehend
the wind blows away my fears
the ocean will drown all my tears
'cause I've got to survive though I need your loving
here
Seagull ... take my love wherever you may fly
Seagull ... bury all my feelings for her
to a place somewhere in the sky
[guitars]
there's a reason that I'll never know
I couldn't follow why you had to go
and I can't comprehend
the wind blows away my fears
the ocean willl drown all my tears
'cause I've got to survive though I need your loving
here
Seagull ... take my love wherever you may fly
Seagull ... bury all my feelings for her
to a place somewhere in the sky
oh oh oh
Seagull ... take my love wherever you may fly
Seagull ... bury all my feelings for her