It's Yours Once You Give It Away - Radnor & Lee

Taught as a boy we were poor men and only the strongest survive

They say the world it’s for the

taking and taking will prove you’re alive

So I sat at the foot of a general she asked me to sing her my song

She stopped me as I was just getting

started and said: Kid you got it all wrong

It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away

Spent a life hoarding diamonds, silver and gold upon my sleeves

Yes I had the world’s biggest

necklace, but one day found I couldn’t breathe

So I started shedding possessions, left all the boys and all the girls

Believing that I needed nothing I said my goodbyes to the whole world

It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away

And I sat in such strange positions turned my body every which way

Fasted and fainted and found that the act I forgot how to play

So I left the bank of the river and traveled to far away lands

Knowing if I needed something I just had to empty my hands

It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away

It’s yours once you give it away