Beggars

(C) 2009; Words by Dustin Kensrue, Music by Dustin Kensrue, Teppei Teranishi, Eddie Breckenridge, Riley Breckenridge

 
All you great men of power, 

you who boast in 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 you're 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?

Does the earth seek your council on how fast to spin?

Can you shut up the gates of the deep?

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 bigshots 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? 
Did you choose the hour or the place you'd be born?

Tell me what can you claim?

Not a thing, not your name! Tell me if you recall just one thing.
Is that not a gift in this life?
 
Can you hear what's been said? Can you see now that everything is grace after all?

If there's one thing I know in this life

If there's one thing I know in this life

If there's one thing I know in this life, we are beggars, all.

--
Rob Pendley
Christ Community Church
www.cccgainesville.com