Swatkins & The Positive Agenda- Gotta Give It Away (If You’re Gonna Keep It) - Live at Long Play

Swatkins & The Positive Agenda- Gotta Give It Away (If You’re Gonna Keep It) - Live at Long Play Recording in Portland, Oregon. Steve Swatkins - vocals, synth, talkbox Tyrone Hendrix - drum kit Michael Elson - Hammond organ André Zapata - bass Trent Baarspul- guitar Moorea Masa - vocals Jans Ingber - percussion, vocals Raymond Richards - engineer, executive producer Todd Gee - director, video editor Michelle Pomerantz - camera operator Video by 336 Collective Audio mixed by Swatkins LYRICS Used to be all so clear to me I would have to scratch and steal just to make it (just to make it) Barely scraping by while my friends were riding high If I could not get my own then I would take it (I would take it) Lonely was that time, cuz I could not spare a dime Even as I held it in my hand Cuz I thought with all my might, if I could squeeze it tight It wouldn’t slip away like it was sand  Gotta Give It Away If You’re Gonna Keep It (if you’re gonna keep it) There’s enough for us all if you believe it If you could give a damn, I know someone who needs it Gotta Give It Away If You’re Gonna Keep It baby High from up above, I was living all alone In my castle looking down below I had climbed so far up, I felt I had so much  Still I remained so miserable.  It ain’t what it seems, The American Dream,  Sweating after fortune and fame,   When I stood there by myself, no one else to share my wealth, Saw I only had myself to blame.  Gotta Give It Away If You’re Gonna Keep It...