| All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats | |
| Politicians and entrepreneurs | |
| Can you safe guard 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 on a string over darkness | |
| Poised to fall? | |
| If there's one thing | |
| I know in this life | |
| We are beggars all | |
| All you big shots who swagger, stride with conceit | |
| Did you devise how your frame would be formed? | |
| If you'd be raised in a palace or left 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 grace after all? | |
| If there's one thing | |
| I know in this life | |
| We are beggars all |