Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Who can tell the sun to rise?
Who can show the dawn its place?
I could spend a thousand years
And only start to know Your ways
[Verse 2]
Who can measure what You're worth?
Who can fathom what You've done?
I could write a thousand songs
And never capture heaven's love
[Chorus]
And Oh praise the Lord, the Holy One
And Oh praise the King of perfect love
A thousand times my soul will sing hallelujah
Yet I will sing a thousand more
[Verse 3]
Who can heal the hardest heart?
Who can hear the softest prayer?
I could run a thousand miles
And still I know You'd find me there
[Chorus]
And Oh praise the Lord, the Holy One
And Oh praise the King of perfect love
A thousand times my soul will sing hallelujah
Yet I will sing a thousand more
[Post-Chorus]
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Yet I will sing a thousand more
[Verse 4]
I could climb the highest heights
Or I could fall to lowly states
I could live a thousand lives
And never see the end of grace
[Chorus]
And Oh praise the Lord, the Holy One (The Holy One)
And Oh praise the King of perfect love (Hallelujah)
A thousand times my soul will sing hallelujah (Hallelujah)
Yet I will sing a thousand more
[Outro]
A thousand more
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Yet I will sing a thousand more
Yet I will sing, yet I will sing, yet I will-
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Meaning & Inspiration
“A Thousand More” responds to the immeasurable character of God with unending praise. Each verse asks a question that exceeds human ability: who commands the dawn, measures God’s worth, comprehends heaven’s love, heals a hardened heart, or hears the quietest prayer? The answers remain beyond full expression, yet the limitation becomes a reason to worship rather than withdraw. Even a thousand years or songs could only begin to describe God’s ways and grace.
The chorus gathers those questions into a direct celebration of the Lord as holy and perfectly loving. Its repeated “hallelujah” suggests that praise can continue without exhausting its subject. The lyric’s images recall biblical descriptions of God appointing the morning and searching the heart, while its contrast between highest heights and lowly places echoes confidence that no location lies beyond his presence. Grace is pictured as equally inexhaustible: even a thousand lives could not reach its end. The song therefore joins wonder, gratitude, and assurance in a sustained confession that God will always remain worthy of another song.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 139:7-10 The psalm affirms that God’s presence reaches both the heights and the depths.
- Psalm 40:5 The psalm says God’s wonders are too numerous to recount fully.
- Lamentations 3:22-23 The passage describes God’s mercies as unending and new every morning.