Lyrics Hope - Kingdom of Giants

Hope

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 others happiness, not by each others 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.
We lay under the starlight
Trying to find a way home
We live, we strive
To make our way through
This life between us and our hearts
And I won’t be surprised
When looking to the sky
If you ever came back for me
I will be here waiting
And if it isn’t true
And if these feelings grew
I will be here waiting
Whatever the future brings
The airplane 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.