Hymn To Life

Hymn To Life - Timo Tolkki

Sitting here and wondering watching the seasons going by

Each new answer just brings ten new questions

My eyes have finally opened

Armored human wrecks walking the streets

Longing for a leader to take away their pain

We have not learned anything

Let me live another day

Without sorrow without shame

Let me feel the wind on my face

Let me feel the sun

And live my days with fun

Let me sing this hymn to life

Molesting and incest

Unloving parents feeding the oven of madness known as planet earth

Love turns into prostitution

Embracing into violence

Lovemaking into f**king

Greed kills our humanity morality our natural needs

Jealousy kills the friendship

Let me live another day

Without sorrow without shame

Let me feel the wind on my face

Let me feel the sun

And live my days with fun

Let me sing this hymn to life

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 aero plane 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 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

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 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 fulfill their 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