[Intro] E  C#m7  Bsus  E  A  E    C#m7  Bsus   E  A

E                            A            E
Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
C#m7        Bsus           E        A
Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath
E                            A              E
Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears 
      C#m7          Bsus       E            A
Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
      E                          A           E
For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched
    C#m7         Bsus       E               A
Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs
   E                           A           E
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praises
   C#m7         Bsus      E          A
Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid

        B                   C#m7
As the ten thousand highways unfold             
      A              B                       C#m7       A
Their doors for the ten thousand standing on nineveh's shores
         E
Where the blood of a husband
A        E             A       B        E
Silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him

              A                      C#m7
And she sings world i've overcome you world i've overcome you
Bsus                       A                      Bsus
World i've overcome by my song and the blood of a son

    E                       A           E
But ten thousand rivers run red like my veins
         C#m7      Bsus            E       A
Where the bones of men hum like a rattling cage
   E                      A        E
For sinew to cling to for wind to remain
  C#m7           Bsus      E           A
In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days 
    E                         A             E
I'm breathing like a choir of holes in the ground
          C#m7        Bsus            E          A
Where the cynical have lain where the cynical go down
         E                     A         E
Save the gravity time of  lets go of her drowned
         C#m7      Bsus       E           A
Like ten thousand sparrows unlocked and unwound

        B                    C#m7
As the ten thousand highways unfold             
      A              B                       C#m7       A
Their doors for the ten thousand standing on nineveh's shores
         E
Where the blood of a husband
A        E             A       B        E
Silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him

                    A                      C#m7
And she sings world i've overcome you world i've overcome you
Bsus                       A                      Bsus
World i've overcome by my song and the blood of a son

[Final] E  C#m7  Bsus  E  A  E    C#m7  Bsus   E  A