The Beggar Lyrics

Bring on the metronome with your teeth

I'm coming Man, I'm coming

The Wife told a story

Of a beggar in her life

That took his chances

And travelled far away

Beggar left a note

To rectify why he left

Underneath her pillow

Lay the payment for the bills

The order of a Man

Isn't in order here

I'm sorry but I can't marry you just yet

The beggar

The lover

And the old familiar story

No-one seems to understand the test

When I'm old and grey

And we're dying next to each other

You'll be mine all mine still

Time crept up fast

And twenty odd years had passed

Two kids and a Wife with a mortgage lay over their heads

And the Wife read the note

The beggar left upon her bed

How we thought our words were right at the time

But People yearn much more

Oh and things who were kids are now adults

And have found their place in the world

Now we're sixty five years old

And it's time we hit the road

The beggar

The lover

And the old familiar story

No-one seems to understand the test

When I'm old and grey

And we're dying next to each other

You'll be mine all mine still

They clocked us one day apart

And lowered us to the ground

And as the saying goes

Love never dies

The beggar

The lover

And the old familiar story

No-one seems to understand the test

Until you're gone

When I'm old and grey

And we're dying next to each other

You'll be mine all mine still

The beggar

The lover

And the old familiar story

No-one seems to understand the test

Until you're gone