[Chorus]
Start where you stand and never mind the past
The past won't help you in beginning anew
And if you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through
Start where you stand and never mind the past
The past won't help you in beginning anew
And if you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through
This is another chapter in the book
This is another race that you have planned
Don't give the vanished days a backward look
Start where you stand, start where you stand
Start where you stand and never mind the past
The past won't help you in beginning anew
And if you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through
Start where you stand and never mind the past
The past won't help you in beginning anew
And if you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through
This is another chapter in the book
This is another race that you have planned
Don't give the vanished days a backward look
Start where you stand, start where you stand
[Chorus]
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it
Work day and night for it
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
Hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it
If gladly you'll sweat for it
Fret for it, Plan for it
Lose all your terror of God or man for it
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it
Work day and night for it
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
Hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it
If gladly you'll sweat for it
Fret for it, Plan for it
Lose all your terror of God or man for it
[Chorus]
Some things are in our control
And others not
Some things are in our control
And others not
Some things are in our control
And others not
Some things are in our control
And others not
Things in our control
Opinion, aim, desire, aversion and, in a word, whatever are our own actions
Whatever are our own actions
Things not in our control
Money, property, reputation, command and, in a word, whatever are not our own actions
Whatever are not our own actions
The things in our control are by nature free