To Give - Shirley Bassey

To give

Is the reason I live

To give all I can give

In return for the life that I earn

I was born

As a part of the plan

With the heart of a woman

With a will to survive.

I believe

Everything on this earth

Having meaning and worth

Made of concrete and air

Is to share

And to feel

Justified I exist

To be scribed on the list

Of someone

With a place in the sun.

Here I stand

Reaching up for the sky

Till the day that I die

I must give all that I can.

When I go

I’ll go out empty handed

Lending dust to the land and

Just the soul I have found

Leaves the ground,

And to give

Is the reason I live.