You Cannot Die

You cannot die…. You cannot die
You are alive and I won’t stop believing
That I may die but you will keep on living
That you live on even though we’re left grieving

And I shall walk on the roads you would walk
Your words live on, though you no longer talk

No sword, no arrow… can pierce your armored shadow
Who can stop the tears that flow… for Hussain

They thought you’d go there to die… but made you live has your Lord
They thought you’d be defeated… your blood defeated the sword

I salute and I mourn the murdered of Karbala
The sorrow of Zahra… I salute and mourn

They could not bury beneath earth the one we love
When he was buried beneath ground, yearned him above

And we know death just as well as you had known death
But we didn’t stop loving you till our last breath

And when like you we had died… we had known that death had lied
Because your love even death itself can’t hide

Just yesterday… alone you lay
One thousand years but we live it day after day
For your love like you our loved ones taken away… just yesterday

We know just like you know… your loss and your sorrow
We are still killed today… living in your shadow

O’ last of Karbala… O’ thirst of Karbala
O’ slain of Karbala… O’ pain of Karbala

We know when we’re born… that from us souls shall be torn
As we lament and we mourn… for Hussain

Look what Karbala gave us… in return what can we give?
I thought I’d go there to die… in fact I went there to live

But like you, death isn’t the end of our story
Just like you with your love we shall find victory

Because we just cannot die… not with the tears that we cry
We live on even if beneath dust we lie

And so we wait
For the one who since your day you would await
The promise of God when the hour is late

O’ Lord hasten the reappearance of the Mehdi

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(London – 04/07/15)