A new song

(Chorus:)
Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness, hello loneliness
I think I’m-a gonna cry-y
Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress, hello emptiness
I feel like I could di-ie
Bye bye my love goodby-eye

There goes my baby with-a someone new
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue
She was my baby till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance that might have been

(Chorus)

I’m-a through with romance, I’m a-through with love
I’m through with a’countin’ the stars above
And here’s the reason that I’m so free
My lovin’ baby is through with me

(Chorus)

Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye
Bye bye my love goodby-eye

One song that invariably starts playing in my head when I leave home. I am going this time not knowing when I will return. Met most of my friends this time. It was good fun. But there are those who weren’t able to make it and they will be sorely missed. I am not distraught. Feeling sad, yes. I do want to focus on the good side of things to keep myself going.

Moving on to something new. Something truly challenging. Something out of a dream. Scary. I will do my best. I’ve thought of what I imagine could be the worst-case-scenario. It will be devastating. But I know I can emerge from that as well. There is more to life. More than one can ever imagine. I might run through a zillion possible situations in my head, and tell myself, “I’ve thought of everything!” Then, as they say, Life happens! Life has always managed to surprise me. Sometimes pleasantly and sometimes it’s been a rude shock. May be a reminder that we are only Human.

I think it is time for a new song…

Something ringing in my head…

Emotion

The Bee Gees

It’s over and done
But the heartache lives on inside
And who’s the one you’re clinging to
Instead of me tonight?

And where are you now, now that I need you?
Tears on my pillow wherever you go
I’ll cry me a river
That leads to your ocean
You’ll never see me fall apart

In the words of a broken heart
It’s just emotion that’s taking me over
Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul
But if you don’t come back
Come home to me darling
Know that there’ll be
Nobody left in this world to hold me tight,
Nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight
Goodnight, goodnight

I’m there at your side,
I’m part of all the things you are
But you’ve got a part of someone else
You’ve got to find your shining star

Just the song!

Has it ever happened that you are in a quandary and you don’t know how to express it and then suddenly you come across this song. The song. It seems as if you’d written it yourself knowing that you will be in such a predicament and it expresses you perfectly. It becomes the balm. It soothes you. It just hits the spot.

 This is such a song for me now. I’d never heard it before and I just chanced upon it when I decided to use the default playlist on Winamp “Never played”.

Too Much Love Will Kill You

-Queen

I’m just the pieces of the man I used to be
Too many bitter tears are raining down on me
I’m far away from home
And I’ve been facing this alone
For much too long 

I feel like no-one ever told the truth to me
About growing up and what a struggle it would be
In my tangled state of mind
I’ve been looking back to find
Where I went wrong

Too much love will kill you
If you can’t make up your mind
Torn between the lover
And the love you leave behind
You’re headed for disaster
‘cos you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you
Every time

I’m just the shadow of the man I used to be
And it seems like there’s no way out of this for me
I used to bring you sunshine
Now all I ever do is bring you down

How would it be if you were standing in my shoes
Can’t you see that it’s impossible to choose
No there’s no making sense of it
Every way I go I’m bound to lose

Too much love will kill you
Just as sure as none at all
It’ll drain the power that’s in you
Make you plead and scream and crawl
And the pain will make you crazy
You’re the victim of your crime
Too much love will kill you
Every time

Too much love will kill you
It’ll make your life a lie
Yes, too much love will kill you
And you won’t understand why
You’d give your life, you’d sell your soul
But here it comes again
Too much love will kill you
In the end…
In the end

Music to my ears?? Nah!

My city has close to a dozen FM channels. Only one plays Western Music. The others, a mix of Indian, Western and other crap. I was just thinking how predictable most Hindi songs have become when it comes to lyrics.

Here are a few words that usually occur in a song just because they rhyme.

1. Jiya-piya-liya-diya – Usually dil dya, dil liya, jaan diya/liya and other such bullshit!
2. Pyaar-yaar-nisaar-aitbaar – baar baar repeat kar ke dimaak sadaa diya!
3. Intezaar-bekaraar-beshumaar-taiyaar- why not also add beemar, bekaar, rozgaar, berozgaar, laachar, yada yada
4. Baatein-raatein-aankhein-
5. Jawani-deewani-anjaani-
6. taal-kaal-dhamaal-
7. Pal-kal-dhal-chal-
8. Gore-chore-dore-oore!
9. Magar-dagar-lahar-pahar-
10. Yaara-dildaara-pyaara-
11. Raahein-baahein-haaein!!
12. Sapna-apna-

Ok I’ve made my point! Hey, I could write songs like this in 10 mins! Let’s take Mr Javed Akhtar. He has won innumerable awards on the Bollywood scene. Take the oh-so-popular song from “Lagaan.”

O ri chori
maan bhi le
baath mori
maine pyaar tujhsi hai kiya
tere bin mein jiya tho kya jiya

Hey each one of those lines is lifted from other songs. I am no expert, but one hardly needs to be a creative genius for this stuff. And they have the balls to send this stuff to the Oscars.

Imagine these songs being literally translated to English for a foreign jury using a software to translate. Let me try another masterpiece of “Javed Sahab.”

Dekhu Ek Ladki Toh Dil Mera Dhadke
See I one girl then heart mine beats
Dhadke, Mile Ik Ladka Toh Shola Sa
Beats, Meet one girl then Fire like
Bhadke Bhadke, Kyun Hai Behke Behke
Bursts bursts, why are wandering wandering
Ladkiyaan – Ladke… Ladke…. Dekho Yeh Haal…
Girls Boys boys See this state
Kya Hai Khayal Kyun Ho Gaya Na Pyaar!
What are thoughts why happened no Love!
No …No… Tum Kisi Pe Na Marna
No …No… You anybody on don’t die
No …No… Tum Aahein Na Bharna No…
No …No… You sigh not
No… Yeh Bhool Na Karna
No… This mistake don’t do
Ye..Ye..Ye..Ye.. No …No… Suno Mat Deewano
Ye..Ye..Ye..Ye.. No …No… Listen Not Mad people
No …No… Aisi Baatein Nahin Mano
No …No… This sort of talk don’t do
No …No… Inhein 5ach Mat Jaano Ye..Ye..Ye..Ye..
No …No… These true don’t know Ye..Ye..Ye..Ye..

This is an assault on a pair of discerning ears! Help! Bollywood needs help.

The golden ages of poetic excellence are history. Melody is what you hear once in a blue moon.