Good Album Friday - Thrice - Beggars (2009) - 10 - Beggars

First of "Good Album Friday".

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Lyrics:

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 its 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?
And if you'd be raised in a palace,
or left out on the streets,
(did you) 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!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Thrice
• Beggars
• Good
• Album
• Friday

[Requeium]

Something not many people pay attention to is the lyrics that he uses. He uses actual poetry like lyrics and you can tell he writes it himself because he feels every word of it and this song is absolute proof. Halfway through the song he actually seems like he's in agony almost like he's acting a part and so few people even comprehend such a thing as music anymore. Glad to see they stayed into what it's known as. They may not play as heavy as they used to but every smallest part has purpose.

[gabefox]

@Requeium I understand what you are saying. I am a huge fan of Thrice. I am also a huge fan of logic, and your logic is a little bit twisted. One thing doesn't have anything to do with the other, proof of that are singers that sing other people's songs with a hell of a lot of feeling. Or pianists who play classical music for example. Listen to Valentina Lisitsa, she didn't write Beethoven, but plays with such passion that you would cry. They do make their own good compositions though! =D

[Oilerswin2010]

@gabefox a very good example of an artist singing someone elses song with the feeling you're talking about is Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's song hurt.

[gabefox]

Have you heard Mae's version of March of Pigs?

[Curanious]

1. Beggars

2. Vheissu

3. Alchemy

4. Artist

5. Illusion

6. Identity

[gabefox]

What about First Impressions!?

[incubutelle]

OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!

this is art...

this is talent

this is Thrice

[gemhc]

Best album of 2009, this song it´s fucking amazing

[rawNASkills]

this song is so sweet when its thundering outside

[randyallengregg]

@gemhc agreed

[russwsmith]

this song is so convicting. Everything is graced! I own nothing.

[IxCOOKIExI]

I do not know why but this song reminds me of how the newer As Cities Burn stuff sounded. I loved that new ACB.

This is just amazing!

[Curanious]

@7hrice

Love you too, honey...

[7hrice]

@Curanious

Youre an idiot.

[flmthrwngrngs]

the lyric is "can you see now that everything's grace?" not "graced". listen closely. there is no d.

[skatewithafro]

my soul just had an orgasm

[Daves2793]

@Requeium definitely my favorite band at the moment.

[davidTHOC]

@trueShortDude,

Their "Vheissu stage" had just as much Christian influenced lyrics as did any other album. You're just not as aware of it.