Can I be your angel?

When things go round and round
And never seem to come around
Can I be your angel? Can I stay?

When life seems to pass by
Tears on your cheeks never dry
Can I be your eyes? Can I stay?

When this cold night bleeds
Your skin with icy knives
Can I be your cloak? Can I stay?

When you fall on your knees
And remember all HIS blessings
Can I be your prayer beads? Can I stay?


-- Toufeeq/SaHiLL

Benaam Sa Ye Dard, Thehar Kyon Nahi Jata

Benaam Sa Ye Dard, Thehar Kyon Nahi Jata
Jo Beet Gaya Hai, Woh Guzar Kyon Nahi Jata

Sab Kuch To Hai, Kya Dhundti Rehti Hai Nigaahein
Kya Baat Hai, Mai Waqt Pe Ghar Kyon Nahi Jata

Woh Ek Hi Chera To, Nahi Sare Jahan Mein
Jo Door Hai Woh Dil Se Utar Kyon Nahi Jata

Main Apni Hi Uljhi Hui, Raho Ka Tamasha
Jate Hain Jidhar Sab, Main Udhar Kyon Nahi Jata

Woh Naam Jo Na Jane Kab Se, Na Chehra Na Badan Hai
Woh Khawaab Agar Hai To Bikhar Kyo Nahi Jata”

By: Nafees khan

You can listen to Jagjit Singh here.

Lagta Nahin Hai Dil Mera Ujde Dayaar Mein

In memory of the last shah of dilli (Delhi), Bahadur Shah Zafar and India's first war of independence, 1857.... lest we forget, 150 years ago... we fought together ... for independence.. for freedom....



Lagta Nahin Hai Dil Mera Ujde Dayaar Mein
Kiski Bani Hai Aalam-E-Napaydaar Mein

Keh Do In Hasraton se Kahin Aur Ja Basein
Itni Jageh Kahan Hai Dil-E-Daagdar Mein

Umr-E-Daraaz Mang kar Laye The Chaar Din
Do Aarzoo Mein kat Gaye Do Intezaar Mein

Kitna Hai Badnaseeb 'Zafar' Dafan Ke Liye
Do Gaz Zameen Bhi Na Mili Kuch-E-Yaar Mein

Lagta Nahin Hai Dil Mera Ujde Dayaar Mein
Kiski Bani Hai Aalam-E-Napaydaar Mein

-- [Bahadur Shah Zafar]

My heart is not happy, in this barren city
Who has ever felt fulfilled, in this mortal world

Please tell my wishes to go away somewhere else
There is not enough room for them in my sorrowful heart

I had requested for a long life of four days
Two were spent in praying/wishing and two were spent in waiting

How ill-fated Zafar is! For his own burial
He couldn't even get two yards of earth in land of the beloved

-- [Rough translation, Courtesy: Unknown]


Listen to Mohd. Rafi here or Habeeb Wali Mohammed here

Why Don't We

When rain drops fall on window glass
Like thousand beats from African drums
Get the cup that holds love
And drink from it
Why don't we.


Bonfire, we two, sitting close to it
Night starry, cold and dry
Blowing wind kissing leafs good night
Let's cuddle up and breathe
Why don't we.


Ocean's winds revealing mysteries inside
And stories of lovers struck on other side
Lets build a boat and offer a free ride
Why don't we.


Drops of blood that fall on ground,
Are like mothers tears for her dead son
Everybody is from same womb
Everybody got to learn
Why don't we.

Raahon Pe Nazar Rakhna Honton Pe Duwaa Rakhna

Raahon Pe Nazar Rakhna Honton Pe Duwaa Rakhna
Aa Jaaye Koyi Shayaad Darwaaza Khoulaa Rakhna
Ehsaas Kee Shamma Ko Iss Tarha Jalaa Rakhna
Aapni Bhi Khabar Rakhna Uss Ka Bhi Pata Rakhna

Tanhaai Ki Mausam Mein Saayon Ki Huqoumat Hain
Yaadon Ke Ujaalon Ko Seene Se Lagaa Rakhna

Raaton Ko Bhatakne Ki Deta Hain Sazaa Mujh Ko
Dushwar Hain Pahlu Mein Dil Tere Binaa Rakhna

Logo Ki Nigaahon Ko Parh Lene Kee Aadat Hain
Haalat Kee Tahreere Chehre Se Bachaa Rakhna

Bhuloun Main Agar Aye Dil To Yaad Dilaa Denaa
Tanhaai Ke Lamhon Ka Harr Zakhm Haraa Rakhna

Ik Bound Bhi Ashqon Ki Daman Na Bheegon Paaye
Gham Uss Ki Amaanat Hain Palkon Pe Sajaa Rakhna

Iss Tarha “Qateel” Uss Se Bartaav Rahein Aapnaa
Wo Bhi Na Boura Maane Dil Ka Bhi Kahaa Rakhna
Raahon Pe Nazar Rakhna Honton Pe Duwaa Rakhna
Aa Jaaye Koyi Shayaad Darwaaza Khoulaa Rakhna

-- Qateel Rajasthani

Singers: Bhupinder & Mitalee [ Listen to song here]

[I will translate it as soon as I get some time]

Someday, someday soon

Someday, someday soon
Bright yellow winged
Sun will rise again
In the east.

Someday, someday soon
Tulip, Rose the love
Flowers will be home again
Beautifully dressed.

Someday, someday soon
Thirsty and Bereft
Desert soil will smell again
First monsoon's rain.

Someday, someday soon
A bride dressed in red
Palanquin will bear again
Through the streets.

-- Sahill

dostii jab kisii se kii jaaye

Before calling someone your friend,
Also do consult your foes.

Winds are filled with death's poison,
Now where can one go to breathe.

In this thought, Am drown
How do I cross this river.

Wounds of yore are almost dry
Lets do some mistake today.

Been drinking wine bottles full
Lets drink, today, to heart-ful
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dostii jab kisii se kii jaaye
dushmano kii bhii raaye lii jaaye

maut kaa zahar hai fizaao.n me.n
ab kahaa.N jaa ke saa.Ns lii jaaye

bas isii soch me.n huu.N Duubaa huaa
ye nadii kaise paar kii jaaye

mere maazii ke zaKhm bharane lage
aaj phir koii bhuul kii jaaye

botale.n khol ke to pii baraso.n
aaj dil khol ke bhii pii jaaye

-- Rahat Indori

When darkness tears/ Please knock not

When darkness tears
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Let me fall
In the dark
With eyes closed
And wings and All.

Let me kiss
This sun once
Light so sweet
And lips left burns.

Go look for
A street called joy
When darkness tears
And moon still coy.

-- Toufeeq/SaHiLL

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Please knock not
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At the end of desert
When you reach
Sahill's tavern
Please knock not
And ask for a drink.

But sit by his door
Until moon goes down
And moorish winds
blush you cold.

Please knock not
And ask for a drink
But saddle your horse
And leave for East.

When you reach
A fork of the road
And there, commoners speak
A language unknown
Take Sahill's name,
But not in vain.

Let them guide you
To a place you have known
In your morning dreams
And in evening thoughts

Please knock not
But softly call
Your lover's name
And wait by the door
Until moon goes down.

-- Toufeeq/SaHiLL

Where the streets have no name

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

The city's aflood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love
See our love turn to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

-- U2 ["Where the Streets Have No Name" , from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. ]

I saw with you, when we walked, together. / Deekha sung terai, hamnai chaltai chaltai

[Dekha Sung Teray, Ali Zafar]

Deekha sung terai, hamnai chaltai chaltai
Deekha sung terai, hamnai chaltai chaltai
Keh rahtai terai merai, Kahin nahi miltai, kahien nahi miltai
Deekha sung terai, hamnai chaltai chaltai
Keh rahtai terai merai, Kahin nahi miltai, kahien nahi miltai
Tu pyar hai mera, kab mainai inkaar kia
Mujh sai kab milo gai, kitna intezar kia
intezar main karon kiyun, tum jo nahi miltai
Keh rahtai terai merai, Kahin nahi miltai, kahien nahi miltai
Khizan ka yeh kaam hai, ujaar dai gulshan ko
Bahar ka mukaam hai, sanwaar dai gulshan ko
Bahar kiya karai jo, sab phool nahi khiltai
Keh rahtai terai merai, Kahin nahi miltai, kahien nahi miltai
Deekha sung terai, hamnai chaltai chaltai
Keh rahtai terai merai, Kahin nahi miltai, kahien nahi miltai
Kahin nahi miltai, kahien nahi miltai
[Courtesy, Urooj Khan]

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I saw with you, when we walked, together.
I saw with you, when we walked, together.
Paths, yours and mine, don't cross each other.

I saw with you, when we walked, together.
Paths, yours and mine, don't cross each other, don't cross each other.

You are my love, when did I deny.
You meet me when, How long I waited.
I should wait why, you never come.
Paths, yours and mine, don't cross each other, don't cross each other.

Wind's job is to ruin the garden,
Spring's destiny to decorate the garden.
Spring can do what, when flowers don't bloom.
Paths, yours and mine, don't cross each other, don't cross each other.

I saw with you, when we walked, together.
Paths, yours and mine, don't cross each other, don't cross each other.

[From 'Huqa Pani' by Ali Zafar, translated by SaHiLL / Toufeeq]

Listen to song here.

[It is a good song, the guy has a good voice, which reminds of Kishore Kumar. Lyrics are not really impressive, but thats me. Others may like it. They have been done to death, in bollywood music.]

It feels as if you are with me, when no one else is.

Tum mere paas hote ho goya
Jab koi doosra nahin hota.

It feels as if you are with me,
when no one else is.


-- Momin Khan Momin

[According to legend, Mirza Ghalib (his contemporary and also a rival) offered Momin
his entire diwan (collection of poetry) in exchange for this partcular verse ]

The Woman I Love

Because the Woman I love lives

Inside of you,

I lean as close to your body with my words
As I can -

And I think of you all the time, dear pilgrim.

Because the One I love goes with you
Wherever you go,
Hafiz will always be near.

If you sat before me, wayfarer,
With your aura bright from your many
Charms,

My lips could resist rushing to you and needing
To befriend your flushed cheek,

But my eyes can no longer hide
The wondrous fact of who
You Really are.

The Beautiful One whom I adore
Has pitched His royal tent inside of you,

So I will always lean my heart
As close to your soul
As I can.

-- Hafiz [Translated by Daniel Ladinsky]

The one love lost or the most red rose.

Bring me back,
The one love lost
Or the most red rose.

...

Sun on his back,
Face on the sand,
Lay a slave from Nile,
Who destiny crossed

Saving a rose
Under his breast
From leering desert eyes
And early dawn's frost
....


.......remaining part will follow.. summary is .... [ he stays in same positon for days and and days and weeks... until Sun and heat burns his body and desert sand covers him and what remains is a small mount of sand there... after few months a rose shrubs grows in that place in the middle of desert.... and flowers the most red rose across the whole Sahara ]

Iris

And Id give up forever to touch you
cause I know that you feel me somehow
Youre the closest to heaven that ill
Ever be
And I dont want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
cause sooner or later its over
I just dont want to miss you tonight

And I dont want the world to see me
cause I dont think that theyd
Understand
When everythings made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you cant fight the tears that aint
Coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know youre alive

And I dont want the world to see me
cause I dont think that theyd
Understand
When everythings made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

-- Goo Goo Dolls (from "City of Angels" Soundtrack)

Indian Love-Song

SHE

Like a serpent to the calling voice of flutes,
Glides my heart into thy fingers, O my Love!
Where the night-wind, like a lover, leans above
His jasmine-gardens and sirisha-bowers;
And on ripe boughs of many-coloured fruits
Bright parrots cluster like vermilion flowers.


HE

Like the perfume in the petals of a rose,
Hides thy heart within my bosom, O my love!
Like a garland, like a jewel, like a dove
That hangs its nest in the asoka-tree.
Lie still, O love, until the morning sows
Her tents of gold on fields of ivory.

-- Sarojini Naidu [from The Golden Threshold]

ai mohabbat tere anjaam pe ronaa aayaa

ai mohabbat tere anjaam pe ronaa aayaa
jaane kyo.n aaj tere naam pe ronaa aayaa

yuu.N to har shaam ummiido.n me.n guzar jaatii thii
aaj kuchh baat hai jo shaam pe ronaa aayaa

kabhii taqdiir kaa maatam kabhii duniyaaa kaa gilaa
manzil-e-ishq me.n har gaam pe ronaa aayaa

[gaam=step]

jab huaa zikr zamaane me.n mohabbat kaa 'Shakeel'
mujh ko apane dil-e-naakaam pe ronaa aayaa

-- Shakeel Badayuni



[I will translate it to english soon, the picture is digitally colored
poster of Mughal-E-Azam, a classic hindi/urdu movie, by K. Asif.
Dilip Kumar (Yusuf khan) and Madhubala (Mumtaz Jehan Begum)]

Trueness of Life

Everything, one could for ask for, lies on my palm,

Yet I look at my empty other.


Lush meadows, fresh breeze abundant,
Yet I long for Sahara and desert rocks.


A sailor reached his shore (Sahill), after seven years at sea,
Yet, he looks at the Pacific and longs for that sea thirst.

-- Toufeeq


[Picture is of Puget-Sound sunset]

There is not gold in every mine

Not every heart is capable of finding the secret of God's love.
There are not pearls in every sea; there is not gold in every mine.

-- Baba Farid

Wake me up when september ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
-- Green Day [Album: American Idiot]

In my arms forever

Let me hold you

In my arms forever
And let this be a ever young night

Let me kiss
You this night forever
And let veiled sky look down and sigh

Let me rest
In your eyes forever
And Sun, an early riser, let him be

Let your name
Be my smile forever
And let those stars envy and fall

Let me live
In your heart forever
And let every moment sing HIS praise

-- Toufeeq