We Are Beggars

Verse 1

The old king called us to the temple

And there were so many of us

He had to build a tower just to be seen

And even then I could not hear him

From where I stood

Verse 2

They wrote his words down

They passed the words back through the crowd

Hand to hand

And when I read them

I had to sit down on the ground

He said he had served us without taking from us

He said he was old and he was leaving

He said he was no greater than any of us

And then he said the thing

The thing I did not know

Chorus

There is a name

There is a name that is coming

There is a One who will come down

And take our burdens

And take our burdens

And give us a way home

Verse 3

He said the name out loud

He said it like he had been waiting his whole life to say it

He said the Lord Omnipotent

He said Jesus Christ

He said it like he could already see Him

And I was standing in a field of my neighbors

And I watched them go down

One by one

Like wheat in a wind

And then I went down too

Bridge

We are beggars

We are beggars

All of us

The king on his tower

The man with the field

The mother with the basket

The child in the dust

We have nothing the Lord did not give us

We have nothing

And He gives us everything

And He gives us everything

And He is coming

And He is coming

Final Chorus

There is a name

There is a name that is coming

There is a One who will come down

And take our burdens

And take our burdens

And give us a way home

And we said yes

And we said yes

And we said his name

And we said his name

And the old king wept

Outro

I went home that day

And I told my children

There is a name

There is a name

And it is coming