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Ten Thousand
John Mark Mcmillan
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Ten Thousand - John Mark Mcmillan
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These are the chords that the acoustic is playing during the song. Your going to
have to figure out the strum pattern by yourself. The Chorus can be played with a
D instead of a B but it's going to sound funny on guitar no matter what. Try it on
a key board and it will fit.
Intro : E,A
Verse 1:
E
Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
A
Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath
E
Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears
A
Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
E
For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched
A
Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs
E
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praise
A
Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid
Pre - Chorus:
B A
As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
B A
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores
E A
Where the blood of a husband silences wars
B E
For the girl who rises to meet him
and she sings
Chorus:
A
World, I have overcome you
E
World, I have overcome you
B
World, I have overcome
A E B
By my song and the blood of a son
Verse 2:
E
Ten thousand rivers run red like my veins
A
Where the bones of men hum like a rattling cage
E
For sinew to cling to for wind to remain
A
In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days
E
Breathing like a choir of holes in the ground
A
Where the cynical have lain, where the cynical go down
E
Save the gravity of time lets go of her drowned
A
Like ten thousand sparrows unlocked and unwound