10 000 Reasons Lyrics

Getting Your Hands on 10 000 Reasons Lyrics: A Practical Walkthrough

I ran into this a while back when a friend asked me to print out the words for a small church gathering and I realized I couldn't remember a single line past the chorus. That's embarrassing for someone who's spent years in these rooms, so I learned my lesson pretty quick. Now I keep the 10 000 Reasons Lyrics cached somewhere local so I'm not scrambling every time a leader calls. The song is "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" written by Matt Redman, Jonathan David Brown, and Melissa Steyn, originally released on the 2008 album *I Will Sing*. It's built around Psalm 103 and has become one of the most recorded worship songs in the last two decades. If you're just looking for the text to learn it or share it, here's what I keep on file.

10 000 Reasons Lyrics (Full Text)

Verse 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul O my soul

Worship His holy name Sing like never before O my soul

I'll worship Your holy name Chorus The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing You my Savior and Friend For all Your blessings, 10,000 reasons My heart will praise You

Verse 2 Oh, remember Your love, Lord Remember how You formed this world

Of Your hands the waters flowed The mountains rose in their places They stand and they sing

"Holy is You" Chorus The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning

It's time to sing You my Savior and Friend For all Your blessings, 10,000 reasons My heart will praise You

Bridge And I'll stand in awe of what You have done My God, Your love has been moving overhead

Strong and faithful are the arms You spread My hope is found in You alone My God, my God

Chorus (final) The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning It's time to sing You my Savior and Friend

For all Your blessings, 10,000 reasons My heart will praise You There's a slight variation in some recordings where the bridge gets repeated or extended, but the core structure above is what you'll find in most lyric sheets and official publishing documents. The Bridge in particular sometimes runs longer in live settings depending on how the band handles the key change and build.

Where I Pull These From

I don't rely on a single site. The most reliable sources are the official CCLI-licensed lyrics pages, the publishing information through Word Music Publishing (Redman's publisher), and verified lyric databases that pull directly from the official sheet music. What I've found over the years is that Wikipedia, Genius, and even some hymn sites get minor details wrong — a word swap here, a line reordered there — because crowd-sourced lyric pages get edited by people who are half-remembering from memory rather than checking the official transcription. The song uses the meter roughly in the style of a common-measure hymn, which is part of why it translates so easily into acoustic arrangements. If you're transposing it for a different vocal range, you'll want to note that the original key centers comfortably around G major for most congregational singing, and the bridge pushes into the upper register without going into stratosphere territory.

A Practical Edge Case I Hit

Once I was prepping materials for a venue where the band wanted to do a stripped-down piano version and the printed lyrics had a timing issue — the words were spaced as if every line got a full two beats in 4/4 time, but the actual arrangement treats some of the internal phrases as pick-up figures. When I tried to sync the slide deck to the audio, the bridge completely fell apart because I was counting straight quarter notes instead of recognizing the syncopated phrasing that Redman uses. The workaround was to map each syllable against the vocal track in a DAW and just manually place the words instead of using any auto-lyric tool. It took about 20 minutes and was infinitely more reliable than fighting with whatever lyric generator was available. The bridge of this song is easy to overlook, but it's where the theological weight lands. The opening verses pull directly from Psalm 103:1–2, which is the classic "bless the Lord, O my soul" invocation. But the bridge shifts into first-person testimony — "my hope is found in You alone" — which moves from declarative praise to personal confession in a way that most casual singers don't notice. If you're preparing to lead this, that shift matters. It's the emotional pivot point, not just another verse. Another thing that trips people up: the song is often misattributed as purely a psalm setting. It's not. The chorus and bridge contain original lyrical content alongside the psalm reference. That distinction matters if you're trying to figure out copyright status, especially for performance licensing. The underlying Psalm 103 text is ancient, but Redman's words carry standard songwriting credits and royalty structures.

If you're looking to download or reference this reliably, I'd recommend starting from the official CCLI lyric platform or the artist's published sheet music rather than random lyric websites. The difference between a correct transcription and a corrupted one shows up fast when you're trying to teach a group that's never heard it before.