Music

तो ज़िंदा हो तुम…

Film: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Written by Javed Akhtar, Recited by Farhan Akhtar

दिलों में तुम अपनी
बेताबियाँ लेके चल रहे हो,
तो ज़िंदा हो तुम
नज़र में ख्वाबों की
बिजलियाँ लेके चल रहे हो,
तो ज़िंदा हो तुम

हवा के झोकों के जैसे
आज़ाद रहना सीखो
तुम एक दरिया के जैसे
लहरों में बहना सीखो
हर एक लम्हें से तुम मिलो
खोले अपनी बाहें
हर एक पल एक नया समां
देखे यह निगाहें

जो अपनी आँखों में
हैरानियाँ लेके चल रहे हो,
तो ज़िंदा हो तुम
दिलों में तुम अपनी
बेताबियाँ लेके चल रहे हो,
तो ज़िंदा हो तुम

Dilon mein tum apni
Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Nazar mein khwabon ki
Bijliyaan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum

Hawa ke jhokon ke jaise
Aazad rehna seekho
Tum ek dariya ke jaise
Lehron mein behna seekho
Har ek lamhe se tum milo
Khole apni baahein
Har ek pal ek naya sama
Dekhen yeh nigahaein

Jo apni aankhon mein
Hairaniyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Dilon mein tum apni
Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum

If you are moving
with an eagerness in your heart,
then you are alive
If you’re moving
with the sparks of dreams in your eyes,
then you’re alive

Learn to live freely
like the gusts of wind,
Learn to flow in waves,
like a river does
Meet every moment
with your arms open,
Every moment these eyes should
watch a new weather

If you’re moving with
a bewilderment in your eyes
then you are alive
If you are moving
with an eagerness in your heart,
then you are alive

Inspired by a post from Atul Chitnis (1962-2013) – FOSS evangelist, Pink Floyd fan and a fine human being.

 

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Interests, Music

Windmills of Your Mind



Windmills of Your Mind ~ Sting [The Thomas Crown Affair]

Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel.
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it’s own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream.

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly
Was it something that you said
Lovers walking along the shore,
Leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a fragment of this song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of this song
Half remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

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Signs of Life – Pink Floyd

David Jon Gilmour is great!

This song, the opening to my favorite Pink Floyd album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a mysterious yet soothing instrumental piece. Gilmour is great with guitar as usual. The album has a background voice by Nick Mason, faint and almost negligible though.

If Wikipedia article is correct, the person rowing the boat through River Cam, Grantchester is Langley Iddens, caretaker of Gilmour’s houseboat studio Astoria. (Wow, already feel like owning one myself, sometime.)

Great one, my personal rating 8.5/10.

When the child like view of the world went, nothing replaced it… Nothing replaced it… Nothing replaced it…
I do not like being asked to… I do not like being asked to… I do not like being asked to…

Other people replaced it,
Someone who knows.

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Daag – Dilip Kumar

I have a very faint and fleeting memories of this song, my father used to humm in one of those fine mornings while getting ready for work.

Talat Mehmood has given his mellow and famously trembling voice to legendary Dilip Kumar (aka Yusuf Khan) in the 1952 romantic classic called Daag (Film by Amiya Chakrabarty).

Video

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/eros-movie-songs/hs277O91/1/Dilip-Kumar-s-Daag.html

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