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I found the answer... open your hands
 Found the answer... open your hands
 Open your hands, open
 Reach out, distance enough, and fair maiden in hand
 All in all, we ain't... but, we press on
 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
 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
 Soldiers! 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 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 St. Luke,
 It is written that the kingdom of God is within man,
 Not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you
 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
 Then in the name of democracy, 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 youth a future and old age a 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
 Soldiers, in the name of democracy,
 Let us all unite!" - Charles Chaplin
 Don't set the sun or let hearts grow dim
 Return back to the hill that you left
 With the city in your hands and if nothings left
 The forest marches on
 Forget not who you are
 Children of the sun
 My point is, salt is on the ground
 The cast are on their way, and the audience is set
 Now that we have painted faith, shout, "Victory is ours!"
 

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Duration
05:48
Key
11
Tempo
123 BPM

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