I'm Sorry, I Don't Want to Be an Emperor Lyrics & Tabs by RISHLOO
I'm Sorry, I Don't Want to Be an Emperor
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I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible.
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 each other.
In this world, there is room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life could 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.
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 the universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Millions of despairing men, women, and 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.
But the hate of men will pass, and dictators die.
The power they took from the people will return to the people.
Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you, 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!
The unloved, and the unnatural...
Don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty!
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!
Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work, and will give you a future of old age and 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!
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor...
