Legacy

Legacy - Elektronomia

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 is room for everyone

And 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

Greed has poisoned men's souls

Has barricaded the world with hate

Has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed

We have developed speed but

We have shut ourselves in

Machinery that gives 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 Kingdom of God is within man

Not one man nor a group of men

But in all men In you

You the people have the power

The power to create machines

The power to create happiness

You the people have the power

To make this life free and beautiful

To make this life a wonderful adventure

Then in the name of democracy let us use that power

Let us all unite

Let us fight for a new world a decent world

That will give men a chance to work that

Will give youth a future and old age a security

By the promise of these things brutes have risen to power

But they lie they do not fulfill that promise

They never will

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people

Now let us fight to fulfill that promise

Let us fight to free the world

To do away with national barriers to do away with greed

With hate and intolerance

Let us fight for a world of reason

A world where science and progress

Will lead to all men's happiness

Soldiers in the name of democracy

Let us all unite