Six Thousand Names

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Silver ink flows across the grain
His wrist aches from the winter weight
He watches the queue through the window pane
While the clock ticks against a dark fate

[Pre-Chorus]
Orders say stay still
Conscience says move on
A diplomat’s ink on a paper bill
To carry them through till the dawn

[Chorus]
Chiune Sugihara
Writing a thousand names
Chiune Sugihara
Fanning the dying flames
Hope on a transit sheet
Lives held in his hands
A world in his pen
Saving the human sands
Chiune Sugihara

[Verse 2]
Koto strings blend with a metal hum
Locomotives wait at the gate
Six thousand hearts like a hollow drum
Passing through a bureaucratic strait

[Pre-Chorus]
Bureaucracy burns
Mercy stays warm
The stamp in the center slowly turns
Shelter inside of the storm

[Chorus]
Chiune Sugihara
Writing a thousand names
Chiune Sugihara
Fanning the dying flames
Hope on a transit sheet
Lives held in his hands
A world in his pen
Saving the human sands
Chiune Sugihara

[Bridge]
Tossing his seals to the platform
Bowing as the metal rails moan
One man against the rising swarm
Refusing to leave them alone

[Chorus]
Chiune Sugihara
Writing a thousand names
Chiune Sugihara
Fanning the dying flames
Hope on a transit sheet
Lives held in his hands
A world in his pen
Saving the human sands
Chiune Sugihara

[Instrumental]