The Gift

It's funny how it starts, just how it all begins

You get your sights on dreams,and man a thousand different things

You are on for yourself,you're chasing cool desire

You get addicted fast, but man you're playin' with fire

Then there's a day that comes to you

When you get all you want, but there's a space inside that's still as empty as it was

'Till an angel comes your way and man she's fallin fast

You know she's so in need but she is to afraid to ask

So you hold on out your hands and catch her best you can

And in givin' love you feel a better man

And the gift is what you get by givin' more than you receive

And you're learnin' fast that maybe this is how you'll be happy

'Cause in takin' everything you lost, the air you need to breath

But in givin' it away, you found the precious thing you seek

Oh, oh, oh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh

It's funny how she smiles, how grateful she is now

And how that touches me deep in my heart somehow

Yet the mirror laughs at me when I forget myself

When I complain about, this hand that I got dealt

And if I had know before, how much she would change my life

I'd sure go back in time and tell that guy

Hey, man

You can do better than this, you can answer your prayers now

You can grant your own wish, yeh, yeh

Just hold on out your hands and give the most you can

And I swear to you you'll feel a better man!

And the gift is what you get by givin' more than you receive

And you're learnin' fast that maybe this is how you'll be happy

'Cause in takin' everything you lost, the air you need to breath

But in givin' it away, you found the precious thing you seek

And it's better by far to do what you do now

And leave the rest to love

Just be strong in who you are

Once you start on that road

You're safe in the knowledge

That anyway you go

Will lead you home lead you home

And the gift is what you get by givin' more than you receive

And you're learnin' fast that maybe this is how you'll be happy

'Cause in takin' everything you lost, the air you need to breath

But in givin' it away, you found the precious thing you seek

So precious, precious, precious, precious, oh, yeh

So precious, precious, precious, precious oh, oh (you are)

And the gift is what you get by givin' more than you receive

And you're learnin' fast that maybe this is how you'll be happy

'Cause in takin' everything you lost, the air you need to breath

But in givin' it away, you found the precious thing you seek