Intro : E5 , A5

Verse 1:
E5                                 
Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
A5
Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath
    E5
Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears
        A5
Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
         E5
For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched
     A5
Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs
    E5
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praise
    A5
Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid


Pre - Chorus:
        B5                     A5
As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
         B5                        A5
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores
            E5                   A5                               
Where the blood of a husband silences wars
B5                          E5
For the girl who rises to meet him
and she sings


Chorus:
A5
World, I have overcome you
E5
World, I have overcome you
B5
World, I have overcome
       A5             E5         B5
By my song and the blood of a son


Verse 2: 
E5
Ten thousand rivers run red like my veins
A5
Where the bones of men hum like a rattling cage
E5
For sinew to cling to for wind to remain
A5
In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days
E5
Breathing like a choir of holes in the ground
A5
Where the cynical have lain, where the cynical go down
E5
Save the gravity of time lets go of her drowned
A5
Like ten thousand sparrows unlocked and unwound