You Don't Have To Cry
Steven Van Zandt/Arthur Baker (Blue Midnight Music, Shakin' Baker, 1985)

As I look out my window
I don't understand what I see
Once again we are letting it happen
Everywhere fighting in the streets

How can people be dying from hunger
How can they be dying for gasoline
Come here my child hold me for a moment
Your eyes are too young for the
suffering they've seen

You don't have to cry girl
You don't have to worry anymore
I'm here to dry your eyes girl
We are stronger together that's for sure

I don't believe in helplessly hoping
I don't believe in some promised land
The life we live is whatever we make it
No one is coming to lead us by the hand

Sunlight and darkness the world keeps turning
Waters of justice fall down like rain
We are the righteous the truth is inside us
There'll be no justice 'till we share the same pain

You don't have to cry girl
You don't have to worry anymore
I'm here to dry your eyes girl
We are stronger together that's for sure

Song lyrics are reproduced by kind permission of Steven Van Zandt.