LYRICS
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor.
that's not my business.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white.
We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world, there's room for everyone, the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery bloodshed.
We have developed speed, we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that keeps us abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost...
The aeroplane and radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and children, victims of a system that makes men torture, and imprisons innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say, DO not despair! The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the peole will return to the people.
And so long as men die, Liberty will never perish.