My Wish Is For A Perfect World

The World might well be different if religion and patriotism died And if mistrust and greed died with them there would be peace World wide But with these four still prevalent what hope for harmony And what hope for love and tolerance for all humanity. That the clergy bless the troops for war seems hard to understand To go and throw their lives away for religion and land That man should kill his fellow man not written in God's will The fifth commandment clearly state the words 'thou shalt not kill'. Intolerance, greed and mistrust all of these go side by side With lust for land and religion and patriotic pride All these have given rise to wars and yet we've failed to see The mistakes our fore fathers made nor learnt from history I am not condemning religion in case you get me wrong And I have great respect for those who worship God in song But when religion lead men to war 'tis there the wrong come in For wars are caused by ignorance where winners cannot win. And as for patriotism that has the strangest ring Of the noble men who died in war the ballad maker sing They thought it the great sacrifice to give their lives for land But the most who lived to reap the gain never took gun in hand. And as for greed and mistrust of those what can one say? For human self enlightenment I hope to see the day For all human beings have good in them or so 'twould seem that way But some can't reach their higher self and somehow go astray It's up to every individual to live good as they can To make this world a better world for family of man To learn more about tolerance and live in harmony My wish is for a perfect world but that may never be