Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Beggars , by - Thrice. Release date: 10.08.2009
Song language: English
Beggars |
| All you great men of power, |
| You who boast of your feats, |
| Politicians and entrepreneurs: |
| Can you safeguard your breath in the night while you sleep, |
| Keep your heart beating steady and sure? |
| As you lie in your bed, |
| Does the thought haunt your head, |
| That your really rather small? |
| If there’s one thing I know in this life, |
| We are beggars all! |
| All you champions of science, |
| And rulers of men: |
| Can you summon the sun from it’s sleep? |
| And does the earth seek your council on how fast to spin? |
| Can you shut up the gates of the deep? |
| And don’t you know that all things, |
| Hang as if by string o’er the darkness, |
| Poised to fall? |
| If there’s one thing I know in this life, |
| We are beggars all! |
| All you big-shots who swagger, |
| And stride with conceit. |
| Did you devise how your frame would be formed? |
| If you’d be raised in a palace, |
| or live out on the streets, |
| choose the place or the hour you’d be born? |
| Tell me what can you claim? |
| Not a thing! |
| Not your name! |
| Tell me if you can recall, |
| Just one thing, not a gift, in this life? |
| Can you hear what’s been said? |
| Can you see now that everything’s graced? |
| After all, |
| If there’s one thing I know in this life, |
| We are beggars all! |