Baahein

ReUpload Update (Oct 2008): This is a re-mixed/re-mastered version which I have uploaded recently. This version is from my album ‘Udta Dhuaan’, which I have self-released a few days back. Thanks for listening.

“And though my love might make you bloom

You turn with fragile grace

To gaze in aching loneliness

At someone else’s face”

(From ‘I Wish This Poem Were Pixie Dust’ by Nicholas Gordon)


Singer: Arunaditya Basu

Music, lyrics and arrangement: Nitin Dubey

Lead guitar: Sajid Khan

Backing guitars: Sajid Khan and Abheek Bose

LYRICS

Main wahin tha kahin
Jab tere yeh nayan
Barse thhe jaise toofani raat ho
Main wahin tha kahin
Jab tera rom-rom
Tarsa tha har pal kisi ke saath ko
Jab dhoondti thi tu
Woh khoye kaafile
Main wahin tha kahin
Par tuney dekha hi nahin

Sulagti yaadon ko sirhaane lekar
Akeli raaton ke fasaane lekar
Khoyi hui thi jis duniya mein tu
Main wahin tha kahin
Khuli baahein lekar

Mehakti saanson ko
Jab neend aane lage
Saya bhi tera tujhse nazarein churaane lage
Din dhalne ko ho
Ghata chhane lage
Duur kahin koi banjaara yeh geet gaane lage
Is janam mein nahin
To phir kabhi hi sahi
Is jahaan mein nahin to
Us jahaan mein kahin

Ab tak chhupayi saari aahein lekar
Sadiyon se nam yeh nigahein lekar
Kho jayegi jis duniya mein tu
Main miloonga wahin
Khuli baahein lekar