C //-/// G // C //-///-///-/// Am7 // G // C // F //-///-///-/// [Verse 1] C G C Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest Am7 G C F Our ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath C G C Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears Am7 G C F Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years C G C For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched Am7 G C F Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs C G C Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praises Am7 G C F Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid [Pre-Chorus] G Am7 F As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors G Am7 F For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores C G C Where the blood of a husband silences wars F G C For the girl who rises to meet Him, and she sings [Chorus] F World, I have overcome you Am7 World, I have overcome you G World, I have overcome F G By my song and the blood of a son [Verse 2] C G C Ten thousand rivers run red like my veins Am7 G C F Where the bones of men hum like a rattling cage C G C For sinew to cling to for wind to remain Am7 G C F In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days C G C Breathing like a choir of holes in the ground Am7 G C F Where the cynical have lain, where the cynical go down C G C Save the gravity of time lets go of her drowned Am7 G C F Like ten thousand sparrows unlocked and unwound [Pre-Chorus] G Am7 F As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors G Am7 F For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores C G C Where the blood of a husband silences wars F G C For the girl who rises to meet Him, and she sings [Chorus] F World, I have overcome you Am7 World, I have overcome you G World, I have overcome F G By my song and the blood of a son [Chorus] F World, I have overcome you Am7 World, I have overcome you G World, I have overcome F G By my song and the blood of a son