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 ten thousand voices for ten 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 praise   Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid      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 him   And she sings      World, I have overcome you   World, I have overcome you   World, I have 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 cling 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 him   And she sings      World, I have overcome you   World, I have overcome you   World, I have overcome   By my song and the blood of a son