Breathe
16th of June, nine-oh-five, door bell rings
Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer
There’s a few things I need you to know
Three
Coming from a long line of
Traveling sales people on my mother’s side
I wasn’t gonna buy just anyone’s cockatoo
So why would I invite a complete stranger into my home
Would you
These days are better than that
These days are better than that
Every day I die again, and again I’m reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can’t defeat
Neither down nor out
There’s nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now
16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up
And I’m coming down with some new Asian virus
Ju Ju man, Ju Ju man
Doc says you’re fine, or dying
Please
Nine-oh-nine, St. John Divine on the line, my pulse is fine
But I’m running down the road like loose electricity
While the band in my head plays a striptease
The roar that lies on the other side of silence
The forest fire that is fear so deny it
Walk out into the street
Sing your heart out
The people we meet
Will not be drowned out
There’s nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now
Yeah, yeah
We are people borne of sound
The songs are in our eyes
Gonna wear them like a crown
Walk out, into the sunburst street
Sing your heart out, sing my heart out
I’ve found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it’s all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now
"There's nothing you have that I need,
I can breathe. "
Such a brave, powerful line. You can't just say it offhand. I can't say that I have truly LIVED; I have a long way to go before I can look back. But I can't wait for the day when I can say:
"There's nothing you have that I need
I can breathe"
Showing posts with label Lyrics. Show all posts
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Romanticising
Gerard Butler. 'Phantom of the Opera'. 'Music of the night'.
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
"Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar"
How can something be so darkly beautiful?
"Let your soul take you where you long to be..."
Ok enough. You have work to do!
"...You alone can make my song take flight"
Yamma. Must shut up and must study. Have to do a case study on 'Sting journalism, news media and privacy'.
It's like being splashed by a muddy puddle while you're swirling in the delicate evening breeze.
Monday, January 12, 2009
And they'll meet one day
There is a new song in my heart.
It's called 'Mr Rock n roll' by Amy Macdonald.
It's really touching.
And so true.
Life's like that. Art imitates it.
So called Mr Rock And Roll
Is dancing on his own again
Talking on his phone again
To someone who tells him that his balance is low
He's got no where to go
He's on his own again
Rock chick of the century
Is acting like she used to be
Dancing like there's no one there
Before she never seemed to care
Now she wouldn't dare
It's so rock and roll to be alone
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say " I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"
Mrs Black and White
She's never seen a shade of grey
Always something on her mind
Every single day
But now she's lost her way
And where does she go from here
Mr Multicultural
Sees all that one can see
He's living proof of someone
Very different to me
But now he wants to be free
Free so he can see
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"
He says "I wish I knew you, I wish I met you
When time was still on my side"
She'll say " I wish I knew you, I wish I loved you
Before I was his bride"
And so they must depart
Too many more are broken hearts
But I've seen that all before
In TV, books and film and more
And there's a happy ending
Every single day
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"
It's called 'Mr Rock n roll' by Amy Macdonald.
It's really touching.
And so true.
Life's like that. Art imitates it.
So called Mr Rock And Roll
Is dancing on his own again
Talking on his phone again
To someone who tells him that his balance is low
He's got no where to go
He's on his own again
Rock chick of the century
Is acting like she used to be
Dancing like there's no one there
Before she never seemed to care
Now she wouldn't dare
It's so rock and roll to be alone
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say " I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"
Mrs Black and White
She's never seen a shade of grey
Always something on her mind
Every single day
But now she's lost her way
And where does she go from here
Mr Multicultural
Sees all that one can see
He's living proof of someone
Very different to me
But now he wants to be free
Free so he can see
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"
He says "I wish I knew you, I wish I met you
When time was still on my side"
She'll say " I wish I knew you, I wish I loved you
Before I was his bride"
And so they must depart
Too many more are broken hearts
But I've seen that all before
In TV, books and film and more
And there's a happy ending
Every single day
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I was something more"
And they'll meet one day
Far away
And say "I wish I knew you, I wish I knew you before"
Friday, December 19, 2008
Ishtihaar
I've fallen in love, yet again, again with a Rabbi song. This one's off his first album. And it's called 'Ishtihaar'.
There's something about staring into the winter sunlight and listening to the soft voice of this amazingly talented singer. Originally a poem by Shiv Kumar Batalvi, the words (oh my God, the words) become soul stirring under the influence of his voice and the gentle pluck of his guitar. This, is THE song.
Okay, promise me, you will listen to the song and then read the lyrics along with it. Only then will you feel what I feel.
Sitting quietly by the window still and freeing your mind of thought would enhance the experience.
So, check it out.
Ishtihaar
For the Lost Love:
ik kudi / A girl
jihda naam mohabbat / whose name is love
saad muradi / simple, dainty
sohni fabbat /a lovely sight
gumm hai gumm hai / she is lost
gumm hai / lost
gumm hai / lost
gumm hai / she is lost
surat osdi / Her face
parian vargi / A fairy's likeness,
seerat di o / temper
Mariam lagdi / a picture of Mary
hasdi hai tan / when she laughs
phul ne jhardhey / the petals fall
turdi hay tan / when she walks
ghazal hai lagdi / a melody play
slamm salami / her graceful height
saru kadd di / like a wicker tree
umar ajey hai mar ke agdi / her years are still of nascence
par naina di / but the language of eyes
gal samajhdi / she comprehends
gummian janam janam / she is lost from many
han hoye / births
agolagda iyon jyon kal / though it seems as affair of yesterday
di gal hai / yesterday
iyon lagdai jion ajj di gal hai /why, it seems an affair of today
iyon lagdai jion hun / why, it seems this moments affair
di gal hai hune taan mere kol kharhi si / just now she stood by my side
hune tan mere kol nahi hai / and now she has vanished
ai keha chhal kehi bhatkan / what trick what chase is this
soch meri hairaan barri hai / my senses, they're mystified
os kudi nu tol rahi hai / searching for that girl
oss kudi nu meri saunh hai / I call out to that girl in my name
os kudi nu apni saunh hai / I call out to that girl in my name
os kudi nu sab di saunh hai / I call out to that girl in my name
os kudi nu rab di saunh hai / I call out to that girl in my name
jey kittey parhdi sunhdi hove / if she reads or hears this
jeyundi jan o mar rahi hovey / if she be alive or dying
ik vari aa ke mil javey / come and meet me once
vafa meri nu daag na laavey / do not sully my devotion
nahi tan maithon jia na janda / lest I can't live
geet koi likhia na janda / nor write a word
nahi tan maithon jia na janda / lest I can't live
geet koi likhia na janda / nor write a word
nahi tan maithon jia na janda / lest I can't live
Sunday, November 23, 2008
New favourite song of the nano-second
'Put It Down'
Artist: Mike Doughty
Album: Golden Delicious
Heart of my heart, got to leave you today
You don’t love me and you won’t understand
Cut by the thorns, oh I must loosen my grip
Got to let the flower fall from my hand
Down, put it put it down
Put it down down put it down down put it down
Go, let it let it go
Let it go go let it go go let it go
Mail, drop it in the mail
Drop it in the mail drop it in the mail drop it in the
Sauce, bottle up the sauce
Bottle up the sauce bottle up the sauce
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Love of all loves, you have made a mistake
Only saw the flaws and now you regret
My mind’s aggrieved and my belly’s ablaze
I have swallowed all the words that you said
Down, put it put it down
Put it down down put it down down put it down
Go, let it let it go
Let it go go let it go go let it go
Mail, drop it in the mail
Drop it in the mail drop it in the mail drop it in the
Sauce, bottle up the sauce
Bottle up the sauce bottle up the sauce
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Not exactly Shakespeare, but like Hugh Grant says in 'Music and Lyrics', the pop song is more likely to touch the human heart than the most eloquent piece of masterfully woven prose. Maybe I'm not in love, maybe I've not been dumped, maybe I've just had a bad day and I like to hear someone say "Put it down...let it go!" or maybe I'm just plain happy it's great to hear someone reminding me of the resilience of the human spirit. We can always tweak a song's meaning around to suit us.
Good music always knows what to say.
Artist: Mike Doughty
Album: Golden Delicious
Heart of my heart, got to leave you today
You don’t love me and you won’t understand
Cut by the thorns, oh I must loosen my grip
Got to let the flower fall from my hand
Down, put it put it down
Put it down down put it down down put it down
Go, let it let it go
Let it go go let it go go let it go
Mail, drop it in the mail
Drop it in the mail drop it in the mail drop it in the
Sauce, bottle up the sauce
Bottle up the sauce bottle up the sauce
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Love of all loves, you have made a mistake
Only saw the flaws and now you regret
My mind’s aggrieved and my belly’s ablaze
I have swallowed all the words that you said
Down, put it put it down
Put it down down put it down down put it down
Go, let it let it go
Let it go go let it go go let it go
Mail, drop it in the mail
Drop it in the mail drop it in the mail drop it in the
Sauce, bottle up the sauce
Bottle up the sauce bottle up the sauce
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
Not exactly Shakespeare, but like Hugh Grant says in 'Music and Lyrics', the pop song is more likely to touch the human heart than the most eloquent piece of masterfully woven prose. Maybe I'm not in love, maybe I've not been dumped, maybe I've just had a bad day and I like to hear someone say "Put it down...let it go!" or maybe I'm just plain happy it's great to hear someone reminding me of the resilience of the human spirit. We can always tweak a song's meaning around to suit us.
Good music always knows what to say.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Pause for a Sad Love Song
Sometimes you listen to sad songs on purpose, don't you?
This mad girl, Ra introduced me to 'Cannonball' by Damien Rice. It's so exquisitely painful, that aching addiction that you can't resist. You're perfectly peaceful, the weather's great and you have a whole heart that you have sort of succeeded in tying up and securing in its rightful place. Yet, you knowingly stumble into the poetic verse of a goodbye song. And you live a heartbreak moment right then and there. Whether you're denying it, whether you've experienced it, whether you want to experience or not.
"It's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball"
That's the problem with these sad love songs. You can relate to them somehow or the other. Whether you've been through a million or nil relationships (I belonging to the latter category) you can just feel something.
If you ever get into one of those moods, you know what to do...
'You' - Switchfoot
'Ishtihaar' - Rabbi
'Chhalla' - Rabbi
'Khalouni' - Cheb Mami
'Tzazae' - Cheb Mami
'Apologise' - Timbaland feat. One Republic
'Easy to Please' - Coldplay
'Eleanor' - Low Millions
'Every breath you take' - The Police
'Stigmatized' - The Calling (beeauutiful)
'Mar Jaawaan' - 'Fashion'
'Mein Herz Brennt' - Rammstein
'Najaney kyun' - Strings
'Varaka Nathikarai' - 'Sangamam' ( I don't know why this song makes me sad but it does)
'Ye mera divanapan hai' - 'The Namesake'
'Ek geet hijar da' - Rabbi
'Afterglow' - INXS (of course)
'Simple like the truth' - Darius
'Undiscovered' - Ashlee Simpson
'Thaiyya thaiyya' - 'Dil Se'
'Polly come home' - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
'With or without you' - U2
'All I want is you' - U2
Or the best way to get out of it would be to listen to some good old chauvinistic, unsentimental 50 Cent, don't cha think?
Friday, October 31, 2008
Silence is easy, it just becomes me
I've finally found an appropriate place to use this lyric ('Silence is Easy' by Starsailor). No, I did not spend a week at the Vipasana Ashram or take a vow of silence. I had laryngitis.
A rather dreadful cough coupled with the flu (the one I got on my Mum's happy birthday) turned into an inability to flex any of my vocal cords.I was reduced to gesturing, glaring and grunting. Moreover, I'd just taken up a ridiculous prepaid scheme which reduced my balance to zilch so I couldn't message anyone. Perfect timing.
So, like any self-respecting nerd, I turned to Harry Potter. Now, I'm not one of those who write obsessive fan fictions or live on Harry Potter fansites and know the Patronus of each character. (Okay, I might know THAT) But I like Harry Potter and I always have, right from the time I read the first book and before it was anything of a universal craze.
But this time, I got hooked. I started re reading the series backwards and fell in love all over again. Man, J.K. Rowling must've done LOADS of research- mythology, esotericism and whatnot. It's not like she just invented everything out of thin air. It is nearly convincingly true. And oh, how I wish it was.
Most of all, it's the pure human values that draw you. Friendship, bravery, sacrifice, honesty and purity of heart. I think that's what hit me the hardest about the books.
Anyway, so I was curled up in bed for nearly a week after the submissions, devouring the world of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore and the rest. (Sirius used to be my favourite character but I think Snape has become the most intriguing. Okay, I'll stop now. An apology to my non-Harry Potter reading readers!)
Apart from being immersed in the dialogue of the characters and snatches of movies ('The Trail of the Pink Panther', 'Music and Lyrics', bits of 'Meet Joe Black' and 'The Pelican Brief'), I was totally silent. Much to the fury of my friends (whose calls and messages I couldn't answer. I'm honestly sorry about that!) and the boredom of my Mum, I retreated to my own private cellar of a mind. I faced my loneliness, my solitude, what have you. And you know what? I think it was for the good.
I realised that I can be alone and it's nothing to fear. It's not the greatest feeling but it's not rock bottom either. You can survive it. All that matters is that you be true to yourself.
I realised I can be bored and that doesn't mean it's the end of the world. Books and TV can be good company. But the best company can be your close ones whom you can just sit beside and not say a word.
I realised that I can dream a little dream and enjoy it . I don't have to kill myself into desperation by trying to make that dream come true.
So, at the end of my involuntary 'retreat', I find myself a little stronger, a little wiser, a lot more patient, a little friendless (ahem!) but a whole lot more peaceful. I'm no guru. I'm still the crabby old part-Cancerian. But I like silence. It just becomes me. And I kinda like what I become.
A rather dreadful cough coupled with the flu (the one I got on my Mum's happy birthday) turned into an inability to flex any of my vocal cords.I was reduced to gesturing, glaring and grunting. Moreover, I'd just taken up a ridiculous prepaid scheme which reduced my balance to zilch so I couldn't message anyone. Perfect timing.
So, like any self-respecting nerd, I turned to Harry Potter. Now, I'm not one of those who write obsessive fan fictions or live on Harry Potter fansites and know the Patronus of each character. (Okay, I might know THAT) But I like Harry Potter and I always have, right from the time I read the first book and before it was anything of a universal craze.
But this time, I got hooked. I started re reading the series backwards and fell in love all over again. Man, J.K. Rowling must've done LOADS of research- mythology, esotericism and whatnot. It's not like she just invented everything out of thin air. It is nearly convincingly true. And oh, how I wish it was.
Most of all, it's the pure human values that draw you. Friendship, bravery, sacrifice, honesty and purity of heart. I think that's what hit me the hardest about the books.
Anyway, so I was curled up in bed for nearly a week after the submissions, devouring the world of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore and the rest. (Sirius used to be my favourite character but I think Snape has become the most intriguing. Okay, I'll stop now. An apology to my non-Harry Potter reading readers!)
Apart from being immersed in the dialogue of the characters and snatches of movies ('The Trail of the Pink Panther', 'Music and Lyrics', bits of 'Meet Joe Black' and 'The Pelican Brief'), I was totally silent. Much to the fury of my friends (whose calls and messages I couldn't answer. I'm honestly sorry about that!) and the boredom of my Mum, I retreated to my own private cellar of a mind. I faced my loneliness, my solitude, what have you. And you know what? I think it was for the good.
I realised that I can be alone and it's nothing to fear. It's not the greatest feeling but it's not rock bottom either. You can survive it. All that matters is that you be true to yourself.
I realised I can be bored and that doesn't mean it's the end of the world. Books and TV can be good company. But the best company can be your close ones whom you can just sit beside and not say a word.
I realised that I can dream a little dream and enjoy it . I don't have to kill myself into desperation by trying to make that dream come true.
So, at the end of my involuntary 'retreat', I find myself a little stronger, a little wiser, a lot more patient, a little friendless (ahem!) but a whole lot more peaceful. I'm no guru. I'm still the crabby old part-Cancerian. But I like silence. It just becomes me. And I kinda like what I become.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Ah, l'amour!
Well, well, I'm in one of my lovey-dovey moods (read: the time when I'm not being a totally brattish boy who couldn't care less about eyebrow threading, is in the throes of an extremely satisfying assignment completion or lusting after pizza and popcorn). Being perennially single in a sea of couples (with and without the relationship counselling I tend to do) has its advantages and disadvantages.
The upside:
- I can go where I like, talk to whom I like, without it being a problem for anyone (er, except headquarters) I love all my guy friends too much to give that up.
- I save on tears.
- I don't have to dress up and fret about looking perfect. Okay, perhaps the fact that I'm single should make me NEED to dress up, but I'm just too lazy to care.
- I have done enough fighting with my best friend for a dozen relationships.
- I can have a million and hundred crushes and nobody has to know. And even if they do, it's all fine!
-Weirdness is something you celebrate alone. I think.
- I can be a boy.
- My parents are extreeeeeemely happy with my célébataire status. And I get to hang out with them most of the time.
The downside:
- You have to drop yourself home and so can't stay out that late (if you're a girl like I'm supposed to be). Ah, the luxury of having someone drive you around and fuss about protecting you. (Besides Mum. Now if she did that, I'd furiously declare my age and how I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Not)
- There's always a message waiting to be read on your phone. A call. An email. Some contact when you're in your people-hungry moods!
- Someone chose YOU because of the way you are and does not need you to change for any reason. Someone loves you not because you are born to them. Of course, there's friends for this. But they don't necessarily find you attractive, fun, comfortable, loving and want to be with you all the time. Hmmm.
- You get to fuss over someone and pour out all that love without scaring (when your friends and puppy get squirmy if you do the same. Sometimes)
The rest of the reasons have been eloquently conveyed in the following.
All I Want Is You - U2
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
But all the promises we made
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
A treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes in a world of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You say you want your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold
All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you You
All I want is...you
All I want is...you
All I want is...you
( I guess the fact that it is sung in Bono's passionate voice as it soars over The Edge's other-worldly riffs adds to the fact that it is probably the most beautiful song of love and longing that I've ever heard. I can listen to it over and over and over again and still not shake off the goosebumps on my skin.)
Desert Rose - Sting
The upside:
- I can go where I like, talk to whom I like, without it being a problem for anyone (er, except headquarters) I love all my guy friends too much to give that up.
- I save on tears.
- I don't have to dress up and fret about looking perfect. Okay, perhaps the fact that I'm single should make me NEED to dress up, but I'm just too lazy to care.
- I have done enough fighting with my best friend for a dozen relationships.
- I can have a million and hundred crushes and nobody has to know. And even if they do, it's all fine!
-Weirdness is something you celebrate alone. I think.
- I can be a boy.
- My parents are extreeeeeemely happy with my célébataire status. And I get to hang out with them most of the time.
The downside:
- You have to drop yourself home and so can't stay out that late (if you're a girl like I'm supposed to be). Ah, the luxury of having someone drive you around and fuss about protecting you. (Besides Mum. Now if she did that, I'd furiously declare my age and how I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Not)
- There's always a message waiting to be read on your phone. A call. An email. Some contact when you're in your people-hungry moods!
- Someone chose YOU because of the way you are and does not need you to change for any reason. Someone loves you not because you are born to them. Of course, there's friends for this. But they don't necessarily find you attractive, fun, comfortable, loving and want to be with you all the time. Hmmm.
- You get to fuss over someone and pour out all that love without scaring (when your friends and puppy get squirmy if you do the same. Sometimes)
The rest of the reasons have been eloquently conveyed in the following.
All I Want Is You - U2
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
But all the promises we made
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
A treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes in a world of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You say you want your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold
All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you You
All I want is...you
All I want is...you
All I want is...you
( I guess the fact that it is sung in Bono's passionate voice as it soars over The Edge's other-worldly riffs adds to the fact that it is probably the most beautiful song of love and longing that I've ever heard. I can listen to it over and over and over again and still not shake off the goosebumps on my skin.)
Desert Rose - Sting
I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this
Sweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower
This rare perfume, is the sweet intoxication of the fall
( The delicate words woven into the intricate melody totally transports me into a desert oasis under a star studded sky. Okay, okay, I'm getting too soppy perhaps. But I just cannot resist Cheb Mami's enchanting vocals syncing with Sting's as these words of yearning for love flow so gracefully. Siiiiigh)
Abhi Nahin Aana - Sona
Abhi Nahin Aana
Mohe Thoda Marne De
Intezar Karne De
Abhi Nahin Aana Sajana
Bhejiyo Sandesha
Aap Nahin Aana
Thode Door Rahke
Mohe Tarsana
Abhi To Mein Chahun,
Sari Sari Raat Jagana
Abhi Nahi Anna Sajana
Ruk Ruk Aana
Dheere Dheere Chalna
Bhoolna Dagaria,
Raste Badalna
Nahi Abhi Mohe,
Garwa Nahi Hey Lagna
Abhi Na Jagao
Bane Raho Sapna....
(Okay, for those of you who don't know Hindi, for those of you who are not familiar with Indian traditions and perceptions of love and courtship, this one may be lost on you in translation. The song, beautifully sung by Sona, is about a woman telling her lover to delay his arrival. She wishes to nearly die in anticipation for him, to experience the torture of being separated from him. This song cannot be understood if you're not a romantic)
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own.
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone.
If I lay here,
If I just lay here ,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel.
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads.
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own...
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes,
they're all I can see.
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all.
If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
( Need I say more?)
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Lyrics...without the music.
Well, here's something I spend nearly all my time unconsciously collecting-those words or lines that sum up exactly what you're feeling deep or not-so deep-within. The reason why some songs just hit you or make you cry or make you realise that someone way across the globe feels the same way you do-irrespective of the language, the genre. Human emotion seems to be global-atleast that's what I've found. Here is a collection of some of the words that have touched me through songs in Arabic, Spanish, Hindi and of course English. These are words that I have scrawled in the back pages of my journal, in the margins of class notes, in cards to friends, on chart paper stuck up on my wall, as messenger nicknames, as text messages and even to describe myself or state of mind on social networking websites. These are the songs I sing to myself before moments I dread, during days I need strength to get through or simply because they define a state I want to live in forever. And sometimes simply because they amuse me to no end because of their pure and simple honesty... Hope you share my opinion, and if you don't, just go listen to techno!
(In no particular order)
1)“Lli fat mat, lli fat mat! Defnu-h et-twala! Lli fat mat!Xetwa mwura xetwa, ishara mwura ishara, gerreb men lli baid u xalli el-madi f-el-madi!Ma tderr h’add! Ma teh’sed h’add! smaa el-maaqul, u kun karim! Derrej l-uraq, qsem el-h’anana! Lli dyal-ek dyal-u, nsa el-h’riq! Ma tkun ghir nefs-ek! El h'ayat terjaa u twulli ki l-melh'un, ki l-mel'hun!"
(What is past is dead and gone, what is past is dead and gone, the last have been buried, what is past is dead and gone.Step after step, gesture after gesture, get closer to the far distance and leave the past to the past!Don’t hurt anyone, don’t be jealous of anyone! Listen to the wise and be modest. Turn the page, share tenderness! What is yours is his! Forget the pain, be yourself, and from life, make a poem, make a poem….)
- 'Lli Fat mat'('What's past is past'), Rachid Taha
2)"Let's see colours that have never been seen
Let's go to places no one else has been
You're in my mind, all of the time
I know that's not enough
But if the sky can crack
There must be some way back
To love and only love"-
'Electrical Storm', U2
3) "Ana gelb-i safi!
Nebghi el- h'obb zahwani!
Ana gelb-i safi!
Safi safi zahwani!"
(As for me, my heart is pure. I like joyous love, As for me my heart is pure, Joyous!
-'Safi'('Pure'), Rachid Taha
4)"But I'm a million different people from one day to the next..."
-'Bittersweet Symphony', The Verve
5)"Oh can't you see what love has done to every broken heart
Oh can't you see what love has done for every heart that cries
Love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize "
-'Window in the Skies', U2
6)"Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole"
-'The Denial Twist', The White Stripes
7)"And we all sympathize with your torn-apart heart
And your really artistic worldly views
It sells records when you're sad these days
It's super cool to be mad these days "
-'I'm Gay', Bowling for Soup
8)You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
A treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes in a world of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you "
-'All I Want Is You', U2
9) Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today, gonna love today
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love."
-'Love Today', Mika
10) "And I can hear the bells
Are ringing joyful and triumphant"
-"I Hear the Bells', Mike Doughty
11)"Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart....
...Some things you shouldn't get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby"
-'Original of the Species', U2
12)"Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
Do you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me"
-'Say it Right', Nelly Furtado
13)"You've been living underground
You've been eating from a can
You've been running away from what you don't understand-
Love....
...To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel"
-'Mysterious Ways', U2
14)"Touch me.
It's so easy to leave me,
All alone with the memories
Of my days in the sun.
If you touch me you'll understand what happiness is.
Look, a new day has begun."
-'Memories', Andrew Lloyd Weber
15)"I believe in the kingdom come
When all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I'm still running"
-'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for', U2
16)"I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so"
-'Think I'm in Love', Beck
17)"Ek rastaa mera
Ek rasta teraa
Hum donoh ki manzil judaa
Hum do humsafar
Hum do ajnabee
Hum donoh ka ek khudaah
Huye begane kyun
Huye anjaaney kyun"
(You have your path
I have my path
Our destinations are separate
We are two co travellers
We are two strangers
Our God is the same
Why did we become out of tune?
Why did we become unknown to each other?)
-'Anjaane' (Strangers), Strings
16)"I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman be still.
I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman, I will."
-'Trying to throw your arms around the world', U2
17)"Hoy puede apagarse el sol pero no la luz de mi alma"
(Today, you can turn off the sun, but not the light of my soul)
-'Un dia normal' ('A normal day'), Juanes
18)"Khwaja mere khwaja
Dil mein sama ja
Shaho ka shah tu
Ali ka dulara
Khwaja mere khwaja
dil mein sama ja
Beqaso ki taqdeer,
tune hai sawari "
(Oh Saint Khwaja
Reside in my heart
King of kings
Ali's beloved
Oh Saint Khwaja
Reside in my heart
The destiny of the ones in despair,
You have changed for the better)
-'Khwaja Mere Khwaja' ('Saint Khwaja of Mine'), lyrics by Gulzar, composed by A.R.Rahman from the movie 'Jodhaa-Akbar'
19)"This memory of Eden haunts us all"
-'Desert Rose', Sting
20)"Kiske Dil Mein Kya Chhupa Hai Sab Tumhein Maaloom Hai....
....baaba jo bhi aapaka ho chuka use kya gumaan hoga piya haaji ali piya haaji ali piya haaji ali piya ho"
(what is hidden in somebody's heart, everything is known to you...
....o sage, whoever has become yours, he wil not carry any misgivings)
'Piya Haji Ali', lyrics by Shaukat Ali, Tejpal Kaur, Gulzar, Sameer, composed by A.R.Rahman from the movie 'Fiza'
21)"Thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not doubt that this love is real
So I got down on my knees and I prayed to the skies
When I looked up could I trust my eyes?
All the saints and angels and the stars up above
They all bowed down to the flower of creation
Every man every woman
Every race every nation
It all comes down to this Sacred love"
-'Sacred Love', Sting
22) “Nah'seb f-il-yam, nah'seb!
Men-el-uwwel l-et-tali,
Nestenna briya talfa, ishara
Nestenna imara"
(I count the days, I count. From first to last, waiting for a lost message, for a gesture, waiting for a message, a sign.)
-'Nah'seb' (I Count), Rachid Taha
23) “Khul Gaya Aasmaan Ka Rasta Dekho Khul Gaya
Mil Gaya Kho Gaya Tha Jo Sitara Mil Gaya, Mil Gaya
Roshan huyi saari Zameen,
jag mag huya saara jahaan
Udne ko tu azaad hai
Bandhan koi ab hai kahaan”
(The way to the sky has opened up
The lost star has been found
The entire ground is lit up
the entire world is glittering
you are free to fly
there is nothing to hold you back)
-‘Kholo kholo’(Open, open), Raman Mahadevan from the movie ‘Taare Zameen Par’
24) “Singing Amen, I’m alive,
Amen, I’m alive..
If everyone cared and nobody cried,
If everyone loved and nobody lied,
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died”
-‘If Everyone Cared’, Nickelback
25) “It’s a new dawn, and a new day and a new life for me
And I’m feelin good”
-‘Feelin’ good’, The Pussycat Dolls
26)If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could
throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
-'Bad', U2
27)"I'm going back to the start"
-'The Scientist', Coldplay
(In no particular order)
1)“Lli fat mat, lli fat mat! Defnu-h et-twala! Lli fat mat!Xetwa mwura xetwa, ishara mwura ishara, gerreb men lli baid u xalli el-madi f-el-madi!Ma tderr h’add! Ma teh’sed h’add! smaa el-maaqul, u kun karim! Derrej l-uraq, qsem el-h’anana! Lli dyal-ek dyal-u, nsa el-h’riq! Ma tkun ghir nefs-ek! El h'ayat terjaa u twulli ki l-melh'un, ki l-mel'hun!"
(What is past is dead and gone, what is past is dead and gone, the last have been buried, what is past is dead and gone.Step after step, gesture after gesture, get closer to the far distance and leave the past to the past!Don’t hurt anyone, don’t be jealous of anyone! Listen to the wise and be modest. Turn the page, share tenderness! What is yours is his! Forget the pain, be yourself, and from life, make a poem, make a poem….)
- 'Lli Fat mat'('What's past is past'), Rachid Taha
2)"Let's see colours that have never been seen
Let's go to places no one else has been
You're in my mind, all of the time
I know that's not enough
But if the sky can crack
There must be some way back
To love and only love"-
'Electrical Storm', U2
3) "Ana gelb-i safi!
Nebghi el- h'obb zahwani!
Ana gelb-i safi!
Safi safi zahwani!"
(As for me, my heart is pure. I like joyous love, As for me my heart is pure, Joyous!
-'Safi'('Pure'), Rachid Taha
4)"But I'm a million different people from one day to the next..."
-'Bittersweet Symphony', The Verve
5)"Oh can't you see what love has done to every broken heart
Oh can't you see what love has done for every heart that cries
Love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize "
-'Window in the Skies', U2
6)"Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole"
-'The Denial Twist', The White Stripes
7)"And we all sympathize with your torn-apart heart
And your really artistic worldly views
It sells records when you're sad these days
It's super cool to be mad these days "
-'I'm Gay', Bowling for Soup
8)You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
A treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes in a world of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you "
-'All I Want Is You', U2
9) Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today, gonna love today
Everybody's gonna love today,
Gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love."
-'Love Today', Mika
10) "And I can hear the bells
Are ringing joyful and triumphant"
-"I Hear the Bells', Mike Doughty
11)"Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart....
...Some things you shouldn't get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby"
-'Original of the Species', U2
12)"Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
Do you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me"
-'Say it Right', Nelly Furtado
13)"You've been living underground
You've been eating from a can
You've been running away from what you don't understand-
Love....
...To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel"
-'Mysterious Ways', U2
14)"Touch me.
It's so easy to leave me,
All alone with the memories
Of my days in the sun.
If you touch me you'll understand what happiness is.
Look, a new day has begun."
-'Memories', Andrew Lloyd Weber
15)"I believe in the kingdom come
When all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I'm still running"
-'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for', U2
16)"I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so"
-'Think I'm in Love', Beck
17)"Ek rastaa mera
Ek rasta teraa
Hum donoh ki manzil judaa
Hum do humsafar
Hum do ajnabee
Hum donoh ka ek khudaah
Huye begane kyun
Huye anjaaney kyun"
(You have your path
I have my path
Our destinations are separate
We are two co travellers
We are two strangers
Our God is the same
Why did we become out of tune?
Why did we become unknown to each other?)
-'Anjaane' (Strangers), Strings
16)"I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman be still.
I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman, I will."
-'Trying to throw your arms around the world', U2
17)"Hoy puede apagarse el sol pero no la luz de mi alma"
(Today, you can turn off the sun, but not the light of my soul)
-'Un dia normal' ('A normal day'), Juanes
18)"Khwaja mere khwaja
Dil mein sama ja
Shaho ka shah tu
Ali ka dulara
Khwaja mere khwaja
dil mein sama ja
Beqaso ki taqdeer,
tune hai sawari "
(Oh Saint Khwaja
Reside in my heart
King of kings
Ali's beloved
Oh Saint Khwaja
Reside in my heart
The destiny of the ones in despair,
You have changed for the better)
-'Khwaja Mere Khwaja' ('Saint Khwaja of Mine'), lyrics by Gulzar, composed by A.R.Rahman from the movie 'Jodhaa-Akbar'
19)"This memory of Eden haunts us all"
-'Desert Rose', Sting
20)"Kiske Dil Mein Kya Chhupa Hai Sab Tumhein Maaloom Hai....
....baaba jo bhi aapaka ho chuka use kya gumaan hoga piya haaji ali piya haaji ali piya haaji ali piya ho"
(what is hidden in somebody's heart, everything is known to you...
....o sage, whoever has become yours, he wil not carry any misgivings)
'Piya Haji Ali', lyrics by Shaukat Ali, Tejpal Kaur, Gulzar, Sameer, composed by A.R.Rahman from the movie 'Fiza'
21)"Thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not doubt that this love is real
So I got down on my knees and I prayed to the skies
When I looked up could I trust my eyes?
All the saints and angels and the stars up above
They all bowed down to the flower of creation
Every man every woman
Every race every nation
It all comes down to this Sacred love"
-'Sacred Love', Sting
22) “Nah'seb f-il-yam, nah'seb!
Men-el-uwwel l-et-tali,
Nestenna briya talfa, ishara
Nestenna imara"
(I count the days, I count. From first to last, waiting for a lost message, for a gesture, waiting for a message, a sign.)
-'Nah'seb' (I Count), Rachid Taha
23) “Khul Gaya Aasmaan Ka Rasta Dekho Khul Gaya
Mil Gaya Kho Gaya Tha Jo Sitara Mil Gaya, Mil Gaya
Roshan huyi saari Zameen,
jag mag huya saara jahaan
Udne ko tu azaad hai
Bandhan koi ab hai kahaan”
(The way to the sky has opened up
The lost star has been found
The entire ground is lit up
the entire world is glittering
you are free to fly
there is nothing to hold you back)
-‘Kholo kholo’(Open, open), Raman Mahadevan from the movie ‘Taare Zameen Par’
24) “Singing Amen, I’m alive,
Amen, I’m alive..
If everyone cared and nobody cried,
If everyone loved and nobody lied,
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we’d see the day when nobody died”
-‘If Everyone Cared’, Nickelback
25) “It’s a new dawn, and a new day and a new life for me
And I’m feelin good”
-‘Feelin’ good’, The Pussycat Dolls
26)If you twist and turn away
If you tear yourself in two again
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would
Let it go
Surrender
Dislocate
If I could
throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
To let it go
And so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
-'Bad', U2
27)"I'm going back to the start"
-'The Scientist', Coldplay
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