{"id":1158,"date":"2026-05-25T02:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/?page_id=1158"},"modified":"2026-05-25T02:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:54:36","slug":"song-of-chiune-sugihara-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/song-of-chiune-sugihara-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Chiune Sugihara Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Transit-of-Mercy-Six-Thousand-Names-Sonauto.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six Thousand Names<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Instrumental Intro]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Verse 1]<br>Silver ink flows across the grain<br>His wrist aches from the winter weight<br>He watches the queue through the window pane<br>While the clock ticks against a dark fate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Pre-Chorus]<br>Orders say stay still<br>Conscience says move on<br>A diplomat\u2019s ink on a paper bill<br>To carry them through till the dawn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Chorus]<br>Chiune Sugihara<br>Writing a thousand names<br>Chiune Sugihara<br>Fanning the dying flames<br>Hope on a transit sheet<br>Lives held in his hands<br>A world in his pen<br>Saving the human sands<br>Chiune Sugihara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Verse 2]<br>Koto strings blend with a metal hum<br>Locomotives wait at the gate<br>Six thousand hearts like a hollow drum<br>Passing through a bureaucratic strait<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Pre-Chorus]<br>Bureaucracy burns<br>Mercy stays warm<br>The stamp in the center slowly turns<br>Shelter inside of the storm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Chorus]<br>Chiune Sugihara<br>Writing a thousand names<br>Chiune Sugihara<br>Fanning the dying flames<br>Hope on a transit sheet<br>Lives held in his hands<br>A world in his pen<br>Saving the human sands<br>Chiune Sugihara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Bridge]<br>Tossing his seals to the platform<br>Bowing as the metal rails moan<br>One man against the rising swarm<br>Refusing to leave them alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Chorus]<br>Chiune Sugihara<br>Writing a thousand names<br>Chiune Sugihara<br>Fanning the dying flames<br>Hope on a transit sheet<br>Lives held in his hands<br>A world in his pen<br>Saving the human sands<br>Chiune Sugihara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Instrumental]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Thousand Names [Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1]Silver ink flows across the grainHis wrist aches from the winter weightHe watches the queue through the window paneWhile the clock ticks against a dark fate [Pre-Chorus]Orders say stay stillConscience says move onA diplomat\u2019s ink on a paper billTo carry them through till the dawn [Chorus]Chiune SugiharaWriting a thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museum.wiserighteous.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}