[Intro]

The world is pervaded with irony

Hunger and corruption

The Eastern world and the Africans, too

Are going to repeat the history of our wars

And our industry supplies them with arms

Everybody knows, but apparently

Nobody can do anything against it

For our society is on the make

[Verse 1]

Well, sometimes, sometimes

I tried to draw up a list

I tried to find out what death had done

I thought of honorable murderers, you know

Like jobbers and mad rabble-rousers

[Pre-Chorus]

At any time, everywhere in the whole world

[Chorus]

If I were a gamma ray, a gamma, gamma

Gamma ray made of pure existence

If I were a gamma ray, a gamma, gamma

Gamma ray, mighty and unfailing

I'd radiate love, to fight misery

[Verse 2]

Without a body, I could fly round the world

Destroying arms, destroying rockets

Mix up complexions of the whole human race

We all would turn into chocolate people

[Pre-Chorus]

Everybody, everywhere in the whole world

[Chorus]

If I were a gamma ray, a gamma, gamma

Gamma ray made of pure existence

If I were a gamma ray, a gamma, gamma

Gamma ray, mighty and unfailing

I'd radiate love, to fight misery

[Verse 2 Reprise]

Without a body, I could fly round the world

Destroying arms, destroying rockets

Mix up complexions of the whole human race

We all would turn into chocolate people

[Pre-Chorus]

Everybody, everywhere in the whole world

[Chorus]

If I were a gamma ray, a gamma, gamma

Gamma ray made of pure existence

If I were a gamma ray, a gamma, gamma

Gamma ray, mighty and unfailing

I'd radiate love, to fight misery