Emiliana Torrini - Beggar's Prayer Lyrics

11 years!

One of the most beautiful songs of loss pain, and healing of the 00's... Pathos, pain hope and extraordinary humility... A masterwork of composition.

Beautifull, beauty

Mamma said, lift your head from the sieve of your hands.
Mamma said eventually this hurting will end.
But the shockwaves on my bones will linger,
Like the ghost of you here in my bed.

When I was lost you thought me a beautiful find.
Sometimes I think of you sleeping, so sleep for a while.
I find myself asking who'd do this to love,
And the white-shouldered mountains they pointed above.

Lord you just dropped me here by the side of this road.
Out here's too cold and I don't want to walk it alone.
I've got a bottle of your blood inside me,
And on old beggar's prayer on the tip of my tongue.

Mamma said, lift your head from the sieve of your hands.
Mamma said that eventually this hurting will end...

I think it's about a pregnant woman who lost her husband and blaming God... I've got a bottle of your blood inside me, Lord you just dropped me here by the side of this road.. Her mother trying to comfort...

I discovered Emiliana's music in her album "Love in the Time of Science" which is, like, a diametric opposite of this music, but this is just as fantastic. That choir is haunting.

Brandy , cigarettes and Emiliana...that was years ago, shes still amazing.

What the heck is Castle? And she needs to give the names of that choir she sings with on this song - that is what makes this song great.

+jasonito23 Castle is a crime drama TV series (and a good one, too: coming from someone who's not a fan of the genre). I'm guessing info on the other singers is included with the original album, but I don't have it (yet) to check). =)

i don't think it was a choir. sounds like it's just her on a loop pedal. and castle's a great show. should check it out. the series just ended :/

No, it's not just her. Those are some deep female voices. Sounds like African American gospel humming.

Castle 1x05.
Amazing song!

n r YEAH 😍😍😍😍

I need complete silence if I am to save the world

Beautiful

I heard this on Grey's Anatomy and loved it, but couldn't find it, then I heard it on Castle and I had to find it! Addicting song

i heard it on castle bang in the opening ... it just seeped into me #sound    #voice   #mean   #music  @Sefra Correa @Marielyn Correa @Wilson Correa @hazel gonsalves @***** what a beautiful thing

Same reason gal same reason loved it on Grey's Anatomy

castle ♥ :)

Ra8Tv5 omg yesss CASTLE IS THE BEST 😍😍😍😍

@Emma gma - Castle WAS the best - nothing like it on now (including The Rookie).

Omg found from my castle obsession

What is the name of this photo?

branballistick not sure. But at the bottom it appears to be from national geographic. Perhaps that will help you find it!

branballistick - Waterproof Makeup – aquatic performers apply lipstick underwater. (J Baylor Roberts/National Geographic Creative)

I heard it in Castle and I search for it like crazy, and... this song is just... Perfect.

Pretty voice.

this couldnt put better words to the way I've been feeling lately

God this is a good song....

lonely nights with whiskey and this song. couldnt ask for more.

i was really down and wanted to listen to this song, until the advertisement came up for the new upcoming movie the dictator hahahaha dont feel down anymore.

Such a beautiful song <3

heard it on Grey's Anatomy and Castle

Beautiful. Emiliana is exceptionally talented.

Heard this song on Castle, I love it. :)

by the way, this track is awesome. i've seen it in the series "Castle". brilliant!

who the fuck is Juno?? everyone is talking about her, but i just don't know who she is. can someone tell me pease? (excuse my ubcirrect english)

A bottle of your blood inside me = wine ( drink this in rememberance of me.)

I want to cry <3 <3

I'm so proud of being from Iceland.
Love her.

@1stclassliar I believe this is a showing of the narrator's switch from speaking to the lost lover, to God. Calling the speaker's faith in her strength. In the previous two lines she mentions the Lord dropping her on the side of the road. The bottle of blood, i think, is her affirming she knows he has the divine strength that all humans do to get through heartache. And the beggar's prayer is the humility that often follows when one has been heartbroken.

Excellent analysis... I concur.. It's a masterwork of composition that goes under the skin upon the moment of the first sung note...Pure pathos...

omg! love it <3

@LJFDFF *endearing :)

If ever I could choose to cry to a song, it would be this one. If ever I were to let my thougths go, it would be to this song. If I ever fall in love, I hope it will be to this song. If I could lay on my death bed and listen to any song... it would be this one.

@akonangatalaga she tweeted about this song!

@TheAndyJade what do you mean by Ellen Page brought you here?

And who just listens to it because they love Emiliana..

@marushadelrojo Ellen Page has music taste? Did she announce this via Twitter or something? I still remember her singing in Juno, a very cute little song

This song is beautiful!!!
Ellen Page just brought me here! =}

Thumbs up if Castle brought you here ~

The photo is from national geographic, it says so directly below the photo.

@cristinagee92

Youtube isn't letting me post a link, but I think the photo is from (strange but true) an article on Oprah's website about using your camera more efficiently or something. Google 'women underwater lipstick' and it should be there.

i love this song and her voice so soothing and beautiful I would pay to see her in concert. It has a mood and so refreshing to hear a song that is not about ladie and man parts bumping and grinding.

oh my god this song is awesome ....

Yep, the hurting will get loads better but it will not end completely. You still remember exactly how you felt when listening to songs like this one. :'(
But it also reminds you that death has nothing on love. :)

She brings it all right home, doesn't she? excellent artist.

will someone please give me a link to this actual photo? i looooooove it. and the song of course

I love the humming part in this song. It takes my breath away. Nice deep voices. I would have loved to see this done live.

this song is about her dead fiancé ..like "Sunny Road" and "today has been okay" ... it is so brilliant, raw and real ... it is magnificiently sad ..

I had no idea.... Wow..

@My30thnamechoice I'd imagine they had oxygen masks on, prepared the scene and how they were going to pose, then the mask was lifted and the picture was taken. So they don't hold their breath long.

How'd they hold their breath that long?

I don't even have words to describe this. She puts beauty in the bitterness...

i remember this!!!! with the frozen body!! i love it! so calming

i got it from castle too!!! best show ever
this song is so haunting

I heard this song on Grey's Anatomy and fell in love with it, god that scene is heart breaking :(

Castle is a tv show on ABC that airs Mondays at 10:00pm. It's about a world-known novelist that gets bored of writing and assists a detective, Kate Beckett who works with murdrer crimes.

What is this... Castle?

Awesome song! Castle chooses actual music! :D

i heard this on castle and fell in love with it.

xD
I searched this for the same reason!
Beautiful

God, that was beautiful.

I heard this on castle too
lyrics demanded to be googled

really like it

love it