The song as explained from lyricist’s perspective. This romantic yet philosophical sad Ghazal song deals with unrequited love among other failures of life in a very intensely emotional way. It will calm the listener’s nerves with music of some classic live instruments with modern sounds and music arrangement accompanied by an equally beautiful melody and voice. It leaves the listener humming the song due to elegant Ghazal style singing by the accomplished singer effectively expressing the emotions behind lyrics. The lyricist has carefully chosen appeasing words and weaved deeply meaningful metaphors to bring out the central idea of the poem in a truly enjoyable way. Cherish it while you fully understand and appreciate the metaphors used in every couplet explained in detail here, along with meanings of difficult words. 1. वो थी बेख़ुदी मुझे 'इश्क़ की, वो ख़ुमार था जो उतर गया, थी वो अन-सुनी कोई दास्ताँ, था कलाम जो बे-असर गया, बेख़ुदी – alienation of mind, ecstasy ख़ुमार – intoxication कलाम – poems बे-असर – ineffective vo thii beKHudii mujhe 'ishq kii, vo KHumaar thaa jo utar gayaa, thii vo an-sunii ko.ii daastaa.n, thaa kalaam jo be-asar gayaa, The guy says with deep sorrow, it was the inebriation of that phase of our intense love. That feeling of intoxication has worn off and is no more. Our love tale remained unheard story and faded away like those poetic writings that failed to cause an impact. 2. ना मैं चाह कर भी वो बन सका, ना मैं कोई दिल में उभर सका, मैं वो सच हूँ जो कहीं छुप गया, ना हूँ झूठ मैं जो सँवर गया, naa mai.n chaah kar bhii vo ban sakaa, naa mai.n ko.ii dil me.n ubhar sakaa, mai.n vo sach huu.n jo kahii.n chhup gayaa, na huu.n jhuuTh mai.n jo sa.nvar gayaa, सँवर – decorate The poet accepts the fact that he could not achieve that level of success which she always wanted him to become and that he, therefore, could not rise in anyone’s heart to the extent that he would be loved or admired. Now, the poet uses the metaphors of truth and falsehoods quite meaningfully to bring out the philosophical truth of the world in which people always wants to hide the truth and exaggerate the display of falsehoods. Similarly, he got hidden somewhere like people hide the truth and could not surface in a decorated way like people display their falsehoods. 3. मैं ये दर्द ले के चला गया, मैं ये गर्द में जा के मिल गया, मैं तो था वो ताइरक-ए-बहार, वो रोए क्यूँ, रोए क्यूँ, वो रोए क्यूँ मैं अगर गया, mai.n ye dard le ke chalaa gayaa, mai.n ye gard me.n jaa ke mil gayaa, mai.n to thaa vo taa.irak-e-bahaar, vo ro.e kyuu.n mai.n agar gayaa, गर्द - dust ताइरक-ए-बहार - a bird which chirps and brings good news of spring, then disappears In this last couplet, the poet, through that proverbial bird of cherry blossom spring season which brings the good news of arrival of such a beautiful season but sadly disappears when the beautiful season really arrives, digs even deeper into his despairs and failures resulting in him leaving this ephemeral world after bringing all the good things in life for this world and his own people only for his body to mix in the dust that is every life’s final outcome anyway. This way he is like that proverbial bird of cherry blossom spring season, who is no more when finally, the good results of what he did during his lifetime are to be reaped by the world. Then, the song slowly fades away with Aalaap beautifully rendered by the singer.