Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Outro, artist - Stephen Marley.
Date of issue: 26.05.2016
Song language: English
Outro |
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! |