I bring this song from long ago

And hard times gone between

To help you know the things I know

And what these things can mean.

As I sing you now, my brothers,

Of that old time long ago,

Will you learn from what those others

Couldn't see and wouldn't know?

Will you learn again the reason

Why we're here, and whence we came?

Will you bring another season

To the making of our game?

Will you know now all the levels,

The intricacies, of life?

Will you cast aside your devils

And reduce your senseless strife?

Will you go working hand in hand,

With purpose, toward a goal

Of harmony in all the land

Remembering nature's role?

Will you overcome the errors

That once brought your fathers low

And avoid the ancient terrors

That have made of death a foe?

Will you bring about survival

In the way it ought to be,

So a man can be your rival

But is not your enemy,

Where man and every living thing

In all the halls of Earth

Are echoing this song I sing

Of what the world is worth?

I sing you now a future day

Of peace and harmony,

Of freedom then to go the way

Existence ought to be.

With free and bold creation

To contribute to the plan

What a great civilization

Will we then have made for man!

Can you see it now, my brothers?

What this world of ours can be,

For both us and all the others,

Living high and full and free.

Help me dream anew the vision

Of a world where life is good.

Come now, show me that my mission

Hasn't been misunderstood.

Come show me what you understand

Of how to change and grow,

Of how to make the things you've planned

Merge with creation's flow.

Come join me in my singing

Of a future that is bright,

Come help me now in bringing

All our brothers to the light.

Come sing the love of living

And of setting star-high aims,

Come sing the joy of giving

Our creations to the games.

Come sing my song of being

For my song is your song too.

A world awaits its freeing,

There is much that we can do.