Ten Thousand Candles

[Verse 1]
Before it is evening
Ten thousand souls are lost
They are gone from want of eating
And in bounty here we stood

[Verse 2]
Ten thousand are the dollars
Ten thousand, yes, and more
It takes to keep our granaries
With locks upon the door

[Chorus]
Ten thousand candles
Ten thousand lives
Ten thousand gone by evening
Ten thousand nights

[Verse 3]
Some men will die a-plenty
Then we will lose two men
One man is betraying
The man who might have been

[Verse 4]
This song is to remember
Today the bread is wrought
Ten thousand gone by evening
Ten thousand we forgot

[Chorus]
Ten thousand candles
Ten thousand lives
Ten thousand gone by evening
Ten thousand nights

[Verse 5]
They talk of war on poverty
Then make the basket swell
For lives are passing by
With each tolling of the bell