Ten Thousand

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