A Song

There is an abundant treasure of beautiful songs, and everyone is aware of it, and the way they are written, the beauty of it, I guess is very difficult to express in words, but this is my humble attempt to do so.

I was just recently listening to this old Hindi song “Tere bina zindagi se”, from the movie Aandhi, it’s a wonderful song,

The first line of the song is like this Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa nahi, Tere bina zindagi bhi lekin zindagi nahi.

I found these lines quite intriguing, “I don’t complain that you are not in my life but without you life is not the same”, isn’t it ironic, that’s what life is all about maybe. We always want something we don’t have and when it’s with us we don’t give it enough value.

There are two stanzas of the song which I like the most. 

Female:   Kaash aisa ho tere kadmo se chun ke manzil chale, aur kahi, door kahi, 

Tu gar saath ho, manzilo ki kami to nahi.         

Male:   Tum jo keh do to, aaj ki raat chaand doobega nahi, rat ko rok lo

Raat ki baat hain aur zindagi baaki to nahi.                          

Sometimes we get lucky enough and get a second chance and this time we tend to be extra careful, but the second chance can be just a mirage or a momentary happiness, but we don’t care about all that, we don’t even care about the reason of separation all the ego it just melts away, we try to accommodate everything and wish to make everything wonderful, but maybe our expressions differ, but that’s what the life teaches us. Differences and ironies,

In this song the couple is meeting again after 9 years that’s just too long and it is definite that they missed each other a lot, but their expressions differ a lot, one of them wants to find their destination together and other one wants the night to be longer, and I feel small touch of irony when he says I just want the night to be longer not your whole life. I think that makes this song a master piece.

So let’s celebrate the differences and the ironies the life presents us with, with this song.