Chords for Orphaned Land - Take My Hand

_ I think what is going to happen in the future is the dictators [E] will find that they are saying
that you can do everything with their nicks except sit on them.
If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled,
and this they will do, partly by drugs, as I foresaw in the very new world,
partly by these new techniques of _ [Am] propaganda.
_ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ From endless lives _ [C] I come back [B] to _ thee
To untie these _ chains [Am] I'll take you [B] with me _
[E] In _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ this tragic _ [C] case, keep far [B] your _ sights
_ _ Hear me _ out [Am] and heed now [B] my _ [E] cry
The asylum's fears, _ [Dm] they are all for [E] _ _ flight
Come, don't deny, none [D] of the [Dm] shadows _ [E] are light
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [B] To your still and me, [E] take [Em] my hand _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ and walk [C] for _ miles
To a [G] place where children [B] play and _ smile
[C] They sing, they fly, [Bm] they're _ _ _
[Em] pure in [D] the air
[A]
Our souls we [C] do _ bear
We're shades of the sea [Bm] and the wall _
[G] _ We'll depart [Bm] in _ _ [E] danger _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] I'll _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [F#] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [F#] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ keep far _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ your sights _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Hear _ [Dm] me _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [F] out and heed _
[Dm] now my _ _ [A#] _ _ [C] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
cry
The _ asylum's fears, they [C] are all for flight
Come, don't _ [B] _ _ _ _
deny, _ _ _ _ none [Am] of the shadows [B] are _ light
[E] _ _ Worse than our light waters, dead [Dm] flowers
How can I tell them about [E] green fields and blue skies
When all they worship are walls and stones
_ Times they circle me, idlers [D] they make
[Dm] Mind I [E] said, these walls can outbreak _
[A] _ [B] Oh _ [C] _ [D] Lord, _
[Am] oh [Bm] Lord
[C] _ _ Take [Em] my hand, _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
yeah [E] we [C] will run _
To a place where children [B] will not die
[C] They live, they think, [Bm] they hope
[Em] _
_ Pure in [D] the air
[A]
And God [C] is fair
We're shades of the sea [Bm] and the wall _ _
[C] _ We'll depart [Bm] in _ danger
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
They were doing by bypassing the non-irrational _
And appealing to his subconscious, his deeper emotion
And his physiology
_ And so [A#] making him actually love his slavery
_ _ [N] _