WHO WILL PLAY GOD

The problem of leadership
Is inevitably
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?

Power bases are very dangerous
Because they attract people
Who are truly insane
People who seek power
Only for the sake of power
Absolute power
Does not corrupt absolutely
Absolute power
Attracts the corruptible

Absolute power
Does not corrupt absolutely
Absolute power
Attracts the corruptible

Small souls
Who seek power
Over others
First destroy
The faith those others
Might have in themselves
The undeserving
Maintain power
By promoting hysteria
Power predisposes one
To vanity and pride
But power deluded those
Who used it
One tended to believe power
Could overcome any barrier
Including one's own ignorance

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Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?

Power tends to isolate
Those who hold too much of it
Eventually they lose touch
With reality and fall
Fall
But, oh the perils of leadership
In a species so anxious
To be told what to do
How little they knew
Of what they created
By their demands
Leaders made mistakes
And those mistakes
Amplified by the numbers
Who followed without questioning
Moved inevitably
Toward great disasters
To use raw power
Is to make yourself
Infinitely vulnerable
To greater powers
To greater powers

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Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?