The Dictator

I'm sorry
I don't want to be an emperor
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone
I should like to help everyone if possible
Jew, Gentile
Black man, white
Black man, black man, 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's room for everyone
And the good earth is rich
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
We have developed speed
But we have shut ourselves in
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want
We think too much and feel too little
Our knowledge has made us cynical
Our cleverness hard and unkind
More than machinery
We need humanity
More than machinery
We need humanity

Someday the dolphin will take back the sea
Someday the lion cage will set the lions free
Where are God's angels?
Show them your face
Running from love is a fall from grace

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
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

Someday the dolphin will take back the sea
Someday the lion cage will set the lions free
Where are God's angels?
Show them your face
Running from love is a fall from grace

You are not machines!
Don't give yourselves to brutes
You are men!
Men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives
Who don't hate!
Tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel
Only the unloved hate
Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle
Soldiers!
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men
Don't fight for slavery!
Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts
You are not machines!
You, the people, have the power
You are men!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful
Let us fight for a new world!

All of the angels sing tonight (A decent world)
Waiting for love to win this fight (For a new world)
All of the angels sing tonight (A world where science and progress)
Waiting for love to win this fight (Where science
And progress will lead to all men's happiness)
All of the angels sing tonight (A decent world)
Waiting for love to win this fight (For a new world)
All of the angels sing tonight (A decent world)
Waiting for love to win this fight

Without these qualities life will be violent
And all will be lost