Ten Thousand

C //-/// G // C //-///-///-/// Am7 

// G // C // F //-///-///-///


[Verse 1]
C                            G   
Ten thousand glimmering like 
         C
coals in our chest
Am7               G         
Our ball bearings drawn to the 
   C        F
magnetic breath
    C                        G    
Of ten thousand weeping with wings
           C
 on their tears
       Am7          G          C 
Amidst ten thousand voices for 
           F
ten thousand years
     C                         
For ten thousand graves yawning 
 G              C
unlocked and unlatched
    Am7          G          C    
Now ten thousand holes with rocks
           F
 on their backs
     C                        
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide 
  G          C
singing the praises
   Am7          G        C       
Of ten thousand bodies unlaced 
    F
and unlaid


[Pre-Chorus]
       G                     Am7  
As the ten thousand highways 
         F
unfold their doors
        G                        
For the ten thousand standing on 
Am7        F
Nineveh's shores
          C                 
Where the blood of a husband 
  G       C
silences wars
         F       G        C
For the girl who rises to meet Him, 
and she sings


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[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       
Ten thousand rivers run red like 
    C
my veins
           Am7          G       
Where the bones of men hum like a 
   C        F
rattling cage
     C                     G      
For sinew to cling to for wind to 
   C
remain
    Am7          G         
In ten thousand lungs for ten 
C            F
thousand days
 C                         G      
Breathing like a choir of holes in
       C
 the ground
           Am7          G         
Where the cynical have lain, where
      C          F
 the cynical go down
          C                   G   
Save the gravity of time lets go 
        C
of her drowned
      Am7           G          C 
Like ten thousand sparrows 
           F
unlocked and unwound


[Pre-Chorus]
       G                     Am7  
As the ten thousand highways 
         F
unfold their doors
        G                        
For the ten thousand standing on 
Am7        F
Nineveh's shores
          C                 
Where the blood of a husband 
  G       C
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