What quake erupts beneath the desert’s floor

English lyrics

. . . . ... What storm is this that stirs the sky to scream? (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) What mourning tide has shattered every dream? . What storm is this that stirs the sky to scream? (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) What mourning tide has shattered every dream? What quake erupts beneath the desert’s floor? (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) No trumpet blown — yet heavens roar and soar. A cursed dawn rises from the bleeding West, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) Its sun devours peace, consumes all rest. This must be Judgment, for the stars have fled, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) The sky itself now weeps for blood he shed. Where once no grief could pierce the holy height, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) Now angels claw the void in sacred fright. The jinn and men and hosts of heaven cry, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) For Karbala, where truth was left to die. That broken sword, that rose crushed in the sand — (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) That’s Hussein, the last to make his stand. --- **[INTERLUDE 1 – confident, angry, powerful spoken in English]** You threaten us with severed heads?! If we feared the blade... We’d never have danced in the gathering of lovers! --- No eye has seen such pain on earth before, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) No ear has heard such thunder in the core. --- **[INTERLUDE 2 – confident, angry, powerful spoken in Hebrew]** אתה מאיים עלינו בראשים כרותים?! אם פחדנו מהחרב... מעולם לא היינו רוקדים במעגל האוהבים! --- His blood still rains on every battlefield, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) Our hearts his flag, our fists his shield. Angels scream and tear the sky in vain, (HUSSAIN! HUSSAIN!) And still we cry, through fire, ash, and pain: [outro] **HUSSAIN… HUSSAIN… HUSSAIN…** **the end**