Scout Trooper - Battle For The Future lyrics

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 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

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

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

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