The Dryness and the Rain
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โฑ๏ธ 2:57 duration
๐ ID: 2439374
๐ Lyrics
First came a strong wind,
Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps
And bending lamp posts down to the ground.
Then came a thunder shattering my windows
But you were not that strong wind or that might sound
You left the bar in shambles,
The rabbit hutch in ruins,
The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn.
All the cows out from the pastures trampling the pumpkins
And the horses from their stable ambling in the corn
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
And I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you passed.
Then swooped down to be nearer, to the traces of the footsteps
To pick the fallen grain from the pressed-down dirt and crooked grass.
And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
Into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere.
As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears, C'MON!
A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans, ink?
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam
Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
Ia Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!
Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps
And bending lamp posts down to the ground.
Then came a thunder shattering my windows
But you were not that strong wind or that might sound
You left the bar in shambles,
The rabbit hutch in ruins,
The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn.
All the cows out from the pastures trampling the pumpkins
And the horses from their stable ambling in the corn
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
And I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you passed.
Then swooped down to be nearer, to the traces of the footsteps
To pick the fallen grain from the pressed-down dirt and crooked grass.
And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
Into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere.
As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears, C'MON!
A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans, ink?
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam
Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
Ia Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:10.17] First came a strong wind,
[00:12.01] Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps
[00:14.96] And bending lamp posts down to the ground.
[00:17.58] Then came a thunder shattering my windows
[00:21.09] But you were not that strong wind or that might sound
[00:24.67] You left the bar in shambles,
[00:26.70] The rabbit hutch in ruins,
[00:28.33] The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn.
[00:31.91] All the cows out from the pastures trampling the pumpkins
[00:35.72] And the horses from their stable ambling in the corn
[00:39.38] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[00:47.30] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[01:06.55] And I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
[01:10.35] And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you passed.
[01:14.06] Then swooped down to be nearer, to the traces of the footsteps
[01:17.65] To pick the fallen grain from the pressed-down dirt and crooked grass.
[01:21.38] And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
[01:25.02] Into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere.
[01:28.72] As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
[01:32.53] The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears, C'MON!
[01:50.68] A fish swims through the sea
[01:52.53] While the sea is in a certain sense,
[01:54.70] Contained within the fish!
[01:56.32] Oh, what am I to think
[01:57.93] Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
[02:00.88] Could not explain
[02:01.97] If all the forest trees were pens
[02:03.85] And all the oceans, ink?
[02:13.09] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[02:20.74] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[02:28.07] Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
[02:29.76] Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
[02:32.05] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam
[02:35.53] Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
[02:37.05] Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
[02:39.04] Ia Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!
[02:50.10]
[00:12.01] Rippin' off rooftops like bottlecaps
[00:14.96] And bending lamp posts down to the ground.
[00:17.58] Then came a thunder shattering my windows
[00:21.09] But you were not that strong wind or that might sound
[00:24.67] You left the bar in shambles,
[00:26.70] The rabbit hutch in ruins,
[00:28.33] The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn.
[00:31.91] All the cows out from the pastures trampling the pumpkins
[00:35.72] And the horses from their stable ambling in the corn
[00:39.38] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[00:47.30] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[01:06.55] And I've flown unnoticed just behind you like an insect
[01:10.35] And I've watched you like a falcon from a distance as you passed.
[01:14.06] Then swooped down to be nearer, to the traces of the footsteps
[01:17.65] To pick the fallen grain from the pressed-down dirt and crooked grass.
[01:21.38] And I'm gonna take that grain and I'm gonna crush it all together
[01:25.02] Into the flour of a bread as small and simple and sincere.
[01:28.72] As when the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
[01:32.53] The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears, C'MON!
[01:50.68] A fish swims through the sea
[01:52.53] While the sea is in a certain sense,
[01:54.70] Contained within the fish!
[01:56.32] Oh, what am I to think
[01:57.93] Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
[02:00.88] Could not explain
[02:01.97] If all the forest trees were pens
[02:03.85] And all the oceans, ink?
[02:13.09] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[02:20.74] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam
[02:28.07] Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan
[02:29.76] Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram
[02:32.05] Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam
[02:35.53] Ya Halim, ya Qahhar
[02:37.05] Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar!
[02:39.04] Ia Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu Akbar!
[02:50.10]