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All you great men of power, you who boast of your feats |
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Politicians and entrepreneurs |
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Can you safe guard your breath in the night while you sleep |
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Keep your heart beating steady and sure |
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As you lie in your bed |
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Does the thought haunt your head |
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That you're really rather small? |
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If there's one thing |
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I know in this life |
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We are beggars all |
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All you champions of science and rulers of men |
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Can you summon the sun from it's sleep? |
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Does the earth seek your council on how fast to spin? |
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Can you shut up the gates of the deep? |
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Don't you know that all things |
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Hang as if on a string over darkness |
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Poised to fall? |
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If there's one thing |
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I know in this life |
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We are beggars all |
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All you big shots who swagger, stride with conceit |
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Did you devise how your frame would be formed? |
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If you'd be raised in a palace or left out on the streets |
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Choose the place or the hour you'd be born |
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Tell me what can you claim |
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Not a thing, not your name |
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Tell me if you can recall just one thing |
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Not a gift in this life |
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Can you hear what's been said? |
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Can you see now that |
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Everything's grace after all? |
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If there's one thing |
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I know in this life |
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We are beggars all |