Alicia and William: 400 years, same song

Not Even the King - by Alicia Keys


Money...
Some people so poor; all that they've got is money...
 
Oh, and diamonds...
Some people waste their life counting their thousands...
 
I don't care what they're offering...
How much gold they bring?
They can't afford what we've got,
Not even the king...
 
Oh, castles...
Some people so lonely; what good is a castle
Surrounded by people?
But ain't got a friend that's not on the payroll...
 
Oh, and I don't care what they bring;
They can have everything...
They can't afford what we've got,
Not even the king...
 
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Came charging to get what we got...
They offered the crown and the offered the throne;
I already got all that I want...
 
All the king's horses and all the king's men;
They came marching through...
They offered the world just to have what we got,
But I found the world in you...
I found the world in you...
 
So darling, listen:
Your arms around me worth more than a kingdom...
Yeah, believe that
The trust that we feel the kings never felt that...
Yeah, this is the song that we sing...
We don't need anything...
They can't afford this;
This is priceless...
 
Can't afford what we've got,
Not even the king...



Sonnet 29, by William Shakespeare

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.