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# Pedro the Lion - "Don't Cry Now"
- URL: https://www.analogue.io/recommendations/pedro-the-lion-dont-cry-now/
- Published: 2024-05-09T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-09T19:05:12.000Z
- Description: The new single from David Bazan & Co. is wonderfully affecting.
- Author: Analogue
- Tags: Recommendations, David Bazan, Pedro the Lion, Analogue, #Import 2026-11-12 21:02, #color-orange, #blend-soft-light

*By* [*Analogue*](https://www.analogue.io/tag/analogue/)

**Album:** Pedro the Lion - "Don't Cry Now" · **Artist:** Pedro the Lion · **Released:** 9 May 2024 · **Label:** Polyvinyl Records

We're all in on all things Pedro the Lion around here, so it's no surprise to hear new singles from his forthcoming album *Santa Cruz* sounding so good and hitting with the sort of head-shaking scene-setting that only David Bazan can deliver.

While we love other singles like "Spend Time" and "Modesto", there's a haunting energy to "Don't Cry Now" that's both immediate and lingering. It feels like an amalgam of Bazan's various outlets all filtered together into a wonderfully affecting three-and-a-half-minute melody.

*Santa Cruz* will be out on June 7 and [you can pre-order (or pre-save) here](https://pedrothelion.ffm.to/santa-cruz?ref=analogue.io). Check out the lyrics below and whet the appetite for more with "Don't Cry Now."  

*If I don’t cry now*

*The trees’ll be sick* 
*If I don’t cry now* 
*The rocks will insist* 
*I'm pretending to be someone else* 
*If I don’t cry now*

*My sister and I snuck through the strange church office* 
*Past the secretary’s desk* 
*In her eyes I saw it* 
*By “you poor kids” my face was set in a half smile* 
*Having learned by now that frozen cheeks* 
*Can sell my denial If I don’t cry now*

*The trees’ll be sick* 
*If I don’t cry now* 
*The rocks will insist* 
*I'm pretending to be someone else* 
*If I don’t cry now*

*Watching the interstate go by* 
*From the backseat window* 
*Heart still soft* 
*Eyes still wide* 
*Head still on a swivel*

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