Try Not To Cry

Sami Yusuf

You, you’re not aware

That we’re aware

Of your despair

Don’t show your tears

To your oppressor

Don’t show your tears

Try not to cry little one

You’re not alone

I’ll stand by you

Try not to cry little one

My heart is your stone

I’ll throw with you

Isam

‘Ayn Jalut where David slew Goliath

This very same place that we be at

Passing through the sands of times

This land’s been the victim of countless crimes

From Crusaders and Mongols

To the present aggression

Then the Franks, now even a crueler oppression

If these walls could speak,

Imagine what would they say!!

For me in this path that I walk on

There's only one way

Bullets may kill, bones may break

Still I throw stones

like David before me and I say,

Lenny

No llores, no pierdas la fe

(Don’t cry, don’t lose faith)

La sed la calma el que haze

(The one who made water come out of the sand)

Agua de la arena

(Is the one who quenches the thirst)

Y tu que te levantas con orgullo entre las piedras

(And you who rise proud from between the stones)

Haz hecho mares de este polvo

(Have made oceans from this dust)

Waqas

I throw stones at my eyes

Cause for way too long they’ve been dry

Plus they see what they shouldn’t from oppressed babies to thighs

I throw stones at my tongue

Cause it should really keep its peace

I throw stones at my feet

Cause they stray and lead to defeat

A couple of big ones at my heart

Cause the thing is freezing cold

But my Nafs is still alive

and kicking unstoppable and on a roll

I throw bricks at the devil

So I’ll be sure to hit him

But first at the man in the mirror

So I can chase out the venom

Isam

Hmm, a little boy shot in the head

Just another kid sent out to get some bread

Not the first murder nor the last

Again and again a repetition of the past

Since the very first day same story

Young ones, old ones, some glory

How can it be, has the whole world turned blind?

Or is it just cause it’s only affecting my kind?!

If these walls could speak,

Imagine what would they say

For me in this path that I walk on

There’s only one way

Bullets may kill, bones may break

Still I throw stones like David before me and I say ..

Song for: Sami Yusuf & Outlandish
Lyrics: Omar Shah, Isam Bachiri, Waqas Qadri, R. Lenny Martinez, Sami Yusuf & Bara Kherigi
Composition: Sami Yusuf
Album: My Ummah (2005)