| What’s a boy to do?
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| I got nothing left
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| All I had was you
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| Rushing through my veins
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| What’s a boy to say
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| When they never touched?
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| All I had was love
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| But it seems love’s not enough
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| I found something, girl
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| But it’s all over now
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| We once had the world
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| Well I got nothing now
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| For the first time
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| In a long time
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| I can see the light
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| Shining down on me tonight
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| How’s a boy to know
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| When it’s time to leave?
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| Where’s a boy to go?
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| What should I believe?
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| I found something, girl
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| But it’s all over now
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| We once had the world
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| Well I got nothing, I got nothing now!
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| For the first time
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| In a long time
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| I can see the light
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| Shining down
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| On me tonight
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| «I'm sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. |
| That’s not my business.
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| I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. |
| I should like to help everyone — if
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| possible — Jew, Gentile — black man — white. |
| We all want to help one another.
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| Human beings are like that. |
| We want to live by each other’s happiness — not by
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| each other’s misery. |
| We don’t want to hate and despise one another.
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| In this world there is room for everyone. |
| And the good earth is rich and can
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| provide for everyone. |
| The way of life can be free and beautiful,
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| but we have lost the way. |
| Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the
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| world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
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| We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives
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| abundance has left us in want. |
| Our knowledge has made us cynical.
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| Our cleverness, hard and unkind. |
| We think too much and feel too little.
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| More than machinery we need humanity. |
| More than cleverness we need kindness
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| and gentleness. |
| Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be
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| lost. |
| And all will be lost.» |