[ti:Hymn To Life]
[ar:Timo Tolkki]
[al:Hymn To Life]
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[00:00.00]Hymn to Life - Timo Tolkki
[01:07.41]Sitting here and wondering watching the seasons going by
[01:14.71]Each new answer just brings ten new questions
[01:22.26]My eyes have finally opened
[01:37.04]Armored human wrecks walking the streets
[01:44.23]Longing for a leader to take away their pain
[01:51.82]We have not learned anything
[02:07.54]Let me live another day
[02:11.20]Without sorrow without shame
[02:14.95]Let me feel the wind on my face
[02:22.20]Let me feel the sun
[02:25.85]And live my days with fun
[02:29.66]Let me sing this hymn to life
[02:36.23]Molesting and incest
[02:39.86]Unloving parents feeding the oven of madness known as planet earth
[02:50.99]Love turns into prostitution
[03:06.10]Embracing into violence
[03:09.21]Lovemaking into f**king
[03:13.16]Greed kills our humanity morality our natural needs
[03:20.51]Jealousy kills the friendship
[03:36.17]Let me live another day
[03:39.90]Without sorrow without shame
[03:43.68]Let me feel the wind on my face
[03:50.94]Let me feel the sun
[03:54.57]And live my days with fun
[03:58.48]Let me sing this hymn to life
[07:03.94]I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor that's not my business
[07:09.80]I don't want to rule or conquer anyone
[07:12.04]I should like to help everyone if possible Jew gentile black man white
[07:17.42]We all want to help one another human beings are like that
[07:20.83]We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery
[07:23.81]We don't want to hate and despise one another
[07:26.41]In this world there is room for everyone
[07:27.80]And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone
[07:31.46]The way of life can be free and beautiful
[07:34.35]But we have lost the way
[07:36.44]Greed has poisoned men's souls has barricaded the world with hate
[07:41.25]Has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed
[07:44.12]We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in
[07:47.46]Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want
[07:50.11]Our knowledge has made us cynical our cleverness hard and unkind
[07:54.23]We think too much and feel too little
[07:57.03]More than machinery we need humanity
[07:59.72]More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness
[08:03.19]Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost
[08:07.30]The aero plane and the radio have brought us closer together
[08:10.03]The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men
[08:13.21]Cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all
[08:16.14]Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world
[08:19.37]Millions of despairing men women and little children
[08:22.60]Victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people
[08:27.62]To those who can hear me I say do not despair
[08:30.87]The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed
[08:34.10]The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress
[08:37.67]The hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people
[08:42.80]Will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish
[08:49.22]Soldiers don't give yourselves to brutes men who despise you
[08:53.00]Enslave you who regiment your lives
[08:55.67]Tell you what to do what to think and what to feel
[08:57.81]Who drill you diet you treat you like cattle use you as cannon fodder
[09:02.08]Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men
[09:04.72]Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts
[09:08.16]You are not machines you are not cattle you are men
[09:11.94]You have the love of humanity in your hearts
[09:14.06]You don't hate only the unloved hate the unloved and the unnatural
[09:18.14]Soldiers don't fight for slavery fight for liberty
[09:21.79]In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke
[09:23.09]It is written the kingdom of God is within man
[09:25.35]Not one man
[09:26.16]Nor a group of men but in all men in you
[09:28.96]You the people have the power
[09:31.04]The power to create machines the power to create happiness
[09:33.95]You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful
[09:37.43]To make this life a wonderful adventure
[09:39.79]Then in the name of democracy let us use that power let us all unite
[09:44.48]Let us fight for a new world a decent world
[09:47.92]That will give men a chance to work
[09:49.56]That will give you the future and old age and security
[09:52.49]By the promise of these things brutes have risen to power
[09:55.35]But they lie
[09:56.27]They do not fulfill their promise they never will
[09:58.98]Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people
[10:02.88]Now let us fight to fulfill that promise
[10:05.75]Let us fight to free the world to do away
[10:08.59]With national barriers to do away with greed
[10:11.64]With hate and intolerance
[10:13.77]Let us fight for a world of reason
[10:15.97]A world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness
[10:20.30]Soldiers in the name of democracy let us all unite