Ten Thounsand

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

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As the ten thousand highways unfold              
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Their doors for the ten thousand standing on nineveh's shores 
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Where the blood of a husband 
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Silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him 

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And she sings world i've overcome you world i've overcome you 
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World i've overcome by my song and the blood of a son 

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But ten thousand rivers run red like my veins 
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Where the bones of men hum like a rattling cage 
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For sinew to cling to for wind to remain 
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In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days  
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I'm breathing like a choir of holes in the ground 
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Where the cynical have lain where the cynical go down 
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Save the gravity time of  lets go of her drowned 
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Like ten thousand sparrows unlocked and unwound 

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As the ten thousand highways unfold              
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Their doors for the ten thousand standing on nineveh's shores 
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Where the blood of a husband 
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Silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him 

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And she sings world i've overcome you world i've overcome you 
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World i've overcome by my song and the blood of a son 

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