Ten Thousand Chords

 
Intro

E     C#m7  Bsus  E  A  E    C#m7  Bsus   E  A



Verse 1

E             

Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest

C#m7          Bsus          E        A

Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath

E                     

Of ten thousand weeping with wings

                      C#m7         Bsus        E             A

On their tears amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years

         E                

For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched

    C#m7         Bsus        E              A

Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs

     E                 

Ten thousand tombs gaping wide

                       C#m7         Bsus      E           A

Singing the praises of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid



Pre-chorus

        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        B        E

Silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him



Chorus

              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



Verse 2

     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                    

For sinew to cling to for wind to remain

   C#m7         Bsus       E            A

In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days

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           

Save the gravity of  lets go of her drowned

     C#m7         Bsus       E            A

Like ten thousand sparrows unlocked and unwound



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[Intro]