The Dryness And The Rain Lyrics - Me Without You

First came a strong wind ripping off rooftops like bottle caps 

And bending lampposts down to the ground 

Then came a thunder shattering my windows 

But you were not that strong wind or that mighty sound 

That left the barn in shambles, the rabbit hutch in ruins 

The split-rail fence splintered and the curtains torn 

All the cows out from the pastures trampling on the pumpkins 

And the horses from their stables ambling in the corn 

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam 

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam 

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 your 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 mutual surrender tears 

A fish swims in 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) 

Nastagh-firuka ya Hokan 

Ya Dhal-Jalah wal-Ikram 

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam 

(Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salaam) 

Ya Halim, ya Qahhar 

Ya Muntaqim, ya Ghaffar 

La Ilaha ilallahu, Allahu akbar