The Beggar

[Verse 1]

I’m sick of chewing at your heels

I’m sick of licking up your spit

What if I keep the power I give you?

Will I then decide to live?

The mud is sucking like a womb

To pull my naked body in

Without your eyes upon my weakness

Will I forget where I begin?

I am the stranger in your mirror

I am a glove without a hand

I am a body gently spinning

Now deliquescing in the wind

I am an empty vessel ringing

In a stone house in the woods

I am the poem that was written

On the backside of your lids

I am the shithead unforgiven

Now crawling up your inner leg

I am an insеct on your bedclothes

Searching for a placе to beg

Now every word’s a new beginning

When there’s nothing left to give

What if I steal the child inside you?

[Bridge]

Will I remember how to live?

When will I finally learn to live?

When do I finally get to live?

When will I finally learn to live?

[Verse 2]

I stand before you polished, golden

I keep a globe of light within

My eyes eroded by derision

They know the purpose of the wind

In every soul there is a craven

Supplicating begging shit

But my objection leads to freedom

My seed is growing and will live

How many people were forgotten

Along this road of broken limbs?

Upon this hill I’ll build my tower

To survey their plowing in

I hear the whispering of angels

I see the dust is made of jewels

I swallow liquid from a river

Fed by the sewage of the cruel

My love is purified but reeking

Of your calumny endured

My feet are bruised and torn and leaking

But lead me towards a silver shore

Before I go there sing a prayer

Into my palms beneath your chin

I am the slaughter at your altar

[Outro]

That's where my will to live begins

That's where my need for you begins

That's where my love for you begins

My love for you will never end

My love for you will never end

(Shouting)