Stephen Marley - Intro lyrics
[Stephen Marley - Intro 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 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
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