|C |C |
|C |C |Bb |Bb | (2x)


[Verse]
C                       Bb          C                        Bb
 Last night I had a desperate dream, I was standing in the winter rain
                   F                 Eb            F      Eb
Footsteps close behind me, somebody called out my name, ohhh
C                  Bb                              Bb
 No magic mirrors can erase, these lines of living on my face
                     F      Eb  F  Eb
Lessons learned and last, ohhh, ohhh


[Chorus]
Ebm                                  Dbm                 B
Take this life - into my own hands, make this world - into my own land
Ebm                                  Dbm                  B
Take this life - I'll take my stand, take this world - into my own hands
Ebm                                Dbm
Take this life - into my own hands,
B                  Ebm
I'll take my stand

|C5  Bb5 |C5  F5 | 2x


[Verse]
C                        Bb      C                            Bb
 I was walking in the summer sun, thinking that my life had just begun
                   F    Eb  F  Eb
How wrong could I be, ohhh, ohhh


[Chorus]
Ebm                                  Dbm                 B
Take this life - into my own hands, make this world - into my own land
Ebm                                  Dbm                  B
Take this life - I'll take my stand, take this world - into my own hands
Ebm                                 Dbm               B
Take this life - into my own hands, take this world - I'll take my stand
Ebm                                 Dbm               B                  Ebm
Take this life - into my own hands, take this world - I'll take my stand

|C5  Bb5 |C5  F5 | 4x


[Solo]
|F |F |F |Eb |F |F |F |Eb |


[Chorus]
Ebm                                  Dbm                 B
Take this life - into my own hands, make this world - into my own land
Ebm                                  Dbm                  B
Take this life - I'll take my stand, take this world - into my own hands
Ebm                                  Dbm                 B
Take this life - into my own hands, make this world - into my own land
Ebm                                  Dbm                  B
Take this life - I'll take my stand, take this world - into my own hands


[Solo]
|Ebm |Ebm |Dbm |B | 4x


[Outro]
Ebm                Dbm
 Into my own hands,
   B
Into my own land,
Ebm                 Dbm
 I'll take my stand,
   B
Into my own hands