Give me some tears, O' world! Give me a drop of tear,
Whoever you are - a white, a black, a boss or a peer;
O' people on the God's earth! Can you hear?
Give me some tears, O' World! Give me a drop of tear.
All over inside me you will find it dry,
That's the reason why I can't cry!
Whatever pain you force me to bear,
You squeeze my heart and my body you tear!
I can only look with motionless eyes,
Not even wet, it ignores all heighs!
Oh my God! All over it's dry!
I can't cry O' you see! Even if I try!
Seeing me so don't you be in fear,
I'm not a ghost, only I don't have tear;
'cause in Sierra Leone for past ten or more years,
I had been shedding
And shedding
And shedding all scalding tears!
I had cried when my toy was broken,
I had cried when they burnt my house;
I had cried when they send me to bush,
Forced me to starve and sleep with the mouse.
I had cried when they molested my mum,
Gagged me down and took my sister away;
I had cried when they dragged my dad,
We all cried when only fear was to sway!
We returned but again we were driven out by the war;
We became helpless, lost everything and it went too far!
Then we forgot to cry when each other they killed,
All over life was vacuum; only by war it was filled.
Now, I can't cry! I have no tear I'm exhausted;
The civil war has burnt and destroyed, left us wasted!
Nothing is clear why all these happened,
we were in the mist;
At the end we are left wounded,
bloody and tired like a beast.
It was their selfish power-struggle; hell had befallen on us;
O' World, see today! How shattered is this peace-loving mass!
O brothers, fathers, sisters, mothers! Lend me a drop of tear;
So that I may cry again, laugh and normal life can come near.
So much of pain and so much loss I can't alone bear;
Your helping hand has given me hope, O' world! You dear!
When I'm in need O' brethren of the world! You didn't sneer;
Give me some tear to bear the life; I shall be back, I swear!
