Ten Thousand

歌詞

Ten thousand glimmering Like coals in our chest Ball bearings drawn To the magnetic breath Of ten thousand weeping With wings on their tears Amidst then thousand voices For then thousand years For ten thousand graves yawning Unlocked and unlatched Now ten thousand holes with rocks On their backs Ten thousand tombs gaping wide Singing the praises Of ten thousand bodies Unlaced and unlaid As the ten thousand highways Unfold their doors For the ten thousand Standing on the nineveh's shores Where the blood Of a husband silences wars For the girl who Rises to meet him And she sings World I've overcome you World I've overcome you World I've overcome By my song And the blood of a son Ten thousand rivers Run red like my veins Where the bones of men Hum like a rattling cage For sinew to ling to And wind to remain In ten thousand lungs For ten thousand days Breathing like a choir Of holes in the ground Where the cynical have lain Where the cynical go down Save the gravity of time Lets go of her drowned Like ten thousand sparrows Unlocked and unwound As the ten thousand highways Unfold their doors For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores Where the blood Of a husband silences wars For the girl who Rises to meet them And she sings World I've overcome you World I've overcome you World I've overcome By my song And the blood of a son