[ti:Hymn to life] [ar:Stratovarius] [al:Hymn to Life] [offset:500] [00:01.79]Artist: Timo Tolkki [00:04.65] Song: Hymn To Life [00:11.15] [00:20.51] [01:07.13]Sitting here and wondering, [01:10.66]watching the seasons going by [01:14.26]Each new answer just brings ten new questions [01:21.88]My eyes have finally opened [01:36.67]Armored human wrecks walking the streets [01:43.86]Longing for a leader to take away their pain [01:51.29]We have not learned anything [02:03.15] [03:35.36][02:07.00]Let me live another day [03:38.85][02:10.53]Without sorrow, without shame [03:42.59][02:14.22]Let me feel the wind on my face [03:49.77][02:21.45]Let me feel the sun [03:53.57][02:25.18]And live my days with fun [03:57.25][02:28.93]Let me sing this hymn to life [02:35.57]Molesting and incest [02:39.02]Unloving parents feeding the oven of madness known as planet earth [02:50.11]Love turns into prostitution [03:05.62]Embracing into violence [03:08.48]Lovemaking into fucking [03:12.29]Greed kills our humanity, [03:16.16]morality our natural needs [03:19.65]Jealousy kills the friendship [03:31.56] [04:00.22] [05:57.59] [06:54.71] [07:04.09]I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - [07:07.57]that's not my business - [07:09.59]I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. [07:11.94]I should like to help everyone if possible, [07:13.87]Jew, gentile, black man, white. [07:17.11]We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. [07:20.73]We want to live by each other's happiness, [07:22.10]not by each other's misery. [07:23.65]We don't want to hate and despise one another. [07:26.05]In this world there is room for everyone and- [07:27.98]the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. [07:31.12]The way of life can be free and beautiful. [07:33.65]But we have lost the way. [07:35.55]Greed has poisoned men's souls - [07:38.48]has barricaded the world with hate; [07:40.92]has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. [07:43.73]We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: [07:47.06]machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. [07:49.75]Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. [07:52.12]We think too much and feel too little: [07:54.85]More than machinery we need humanity; [07:57.47]More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. [08:00.78]Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. [08:04.68] The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. [08:07.76]The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, [08:10.97]cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. [08:13.91]Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, [08:16.92]millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system - [08:21.53]that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. [08:25.29]To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". [08:28.57]The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, [08:31.73]the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: [08:35.31]the hate of men will pass and dictators die, [08:38.62]and the power they took from the people, will return to the people - [08:41.98]and so long as men die, liberty will never perish... [08:46.02]Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, [08:49.63]men who despise you, enslave you - [08:51.82]who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, [08:53.97]what to think and what to feel, [08:55.23]who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, [08:57.92]use you as cannon fodder! [08:59.62]Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, [09:03.22]with machine minds and machine hearts! [09:05.62]You are not machines! [09:07.05]You are not cattle! You are men! [09:09.40]You have the love of humanity in your hearts. [09:11.59]You don't hate - only the unloved hate - [09:13.99]the unloved and the unnatural. [09:15.79]Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty! [09:19.15]In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written [09:21.54] "the kingdom of God is within man" - [09:22.82] not one man, nor a group of men- but in all men - in you! [09:26.26]You the people have the power, [09:28.40]the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! [09:31.26]You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, [09:34.70]to make this life a wonderful adventure! [09:37.14]Then in the name of democracy let us use that power - [09:40.02]let us all unite!!! [09:41.82]Let us fight for a new world, [09:43.92]a decent world that will give men a chance to work, [09:46.79]that will give you the future and old age and security. [09:49.80]By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, [09:52.66]but they lie! They do not fulfil their promise, they never will! [09:56.37]Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! [10:00.10]Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! [10:02.99]Let us fight to free the world, [10:05.39]to do away with national barriers, [10:07.41]to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! [10:10.94]Let us fight for a world of reason, [10:13.13]a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. [10:17.67]Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!!! [10:22.96] [10:24.27][Speech by Charlie (Charles) Chaplin (1889-1977) [10:28.54] from "The Great Dictator" movie (1940)] [11:27.98] the End