| Taught as a boy we were poor men and only the strongest survive
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| They say the world it’s for the
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| taking and taking will prove you’re alive
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| So I sat at the foot of a general she asked me to sing her my song
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| She stopped me as I was just getting
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| started and said: Kid you got it all wrong
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| It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away
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| Spent a life hoarding diamonds, silver and gold upon my sleeves
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| Yes I had the world’s biggest
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| necklace, but one day found I couldn’t breathe
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| So I started shedding possessions, left all the boys and all the girls
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| Believing that I needed nothing I said my goodbyes to the whole world
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| It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away
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| And I sat in such strange positions turned my body every which way
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| Fasted and fainted and found that the act I forgot how to play
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| So I left the bank of the river and traveled to far away lands
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| Knowing if I needed something I just had to empty my hands
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| It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away, once you give it away
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| It’s yours once you give it away |