maybe i'm a beggar

i ain't got too much money

i ain't got too much sense

long ago i had a dream but that's no recompense

my father was a blind man

my brother was a fool

my mother told me god is love

but hatred makes the rules

teach me to fly

so i shan't drag my feet in the sand

give me the sky

i would take the whole world in my hand

well

don't you tell me

i cannot last at all

before you know i'll come and go

and make you if i can

maybe i'm a beggar

just check your sympathy

they throw away their gentle love

and keep their pain for me

can we be free

in a world where to love is to own?

well when will we see

that a man must face life all alone?

maybe i'm a beggar

just check your sympathy

they throw away their gentle love

and keep their pain for me

teach me to fly

so i shan't drag my feet in the sand

give me the sky

i would take the whole world in my hand

can we be free

in a world where to love is to own?

well when will we see

that a man must face life all alone?