Stephen Marley - Outro (Revelation Pt. II: “The Fruit of Life” ) lyrics
[Stephen Marley - Outro Revelation Pt. II: “The Fruit of Life” 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
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 and enslave you
Who regiment your lives, tell you what to do
What to think and 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 seventeenth chapter of Saint
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, the people
You the people have the power
The power to create machines
The power to create happiness
You the people have the power to
Make life free and beautiful
To make this life a wonderful adventure
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 you the future
And old age and security
By the promise of these things
Brutes have risen to power
But they lie, they do
Not fulfil their promise, they never will
Dictators free themselves but they
Enslave the people
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise
Let us fight to free the world
To do away with national barriers
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, 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 and enslave you
Who regiment your lives, tell you what to do
What to think and 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 seventeenth chapter of Saint
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, the people
You the people have the power
The power to create machines
The power to create happiness
You the people have the power to
Make life free and beautiful
To make this life a wonderful adventure
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 you the future
And old age and security
By the promise of these things
Brutes have risen to power
But they lie, they do
Not fulfil their promise, they never will
Dictators free themselves but they
Enslave the people
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise
Let us fight to free the world
To do away with national barriers
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, let us all unite!