Akira The Don, Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator (Meaningwave Masterpieces II ) lyrics
[Akira The Don, Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator Meaningwave Masterpieces II lyrics]
I'm sorry, 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 aeroplane and the radio have
Brought us closer together
The very nature of these inventions cries
Out for the goodness in men
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 little children
Victims of a system that makes men
Torture and imprison 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
People will return to the people
And so long as men die
Liberty will never perish
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you, enslave you
Who regiment your lives, tell you what
To do, what to think, or what to feel!
Who drill you, diet you
Treat you like cattle
Use you as cannon fodder
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds
And machine hearts! You are not machines!
You are not cattle! You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts
You don't hate, only the unloved hate
The unloved and the unnatural
Soldiers, don't fight for slavery
Fight for liberty! In the
17th Chapter of St luke it is written
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!
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 aeroplane and the radio have
Brought us closer together
The very nature of these inventions cries
Out for the goodness in men
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 little children
Victims of a system that makes men
Torture and imprison 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
People will return to the people
And so long as men die
Liberty will never perish
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you, enslave you
Who regiment your lives, tell you what
To do, what to think, or what to feel!
Who drill you, diet you
Treat you like cattle
Use you as cannon fodder
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds
And machine hearts! You are not machines!
You are not cattle! You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts
You don't hate, only the unloved hate
The unloved and the unnatural
Soldiers, don't fight for slavery
Fight for liberty! In the
17th Chapter of St luke it is written
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!