Lyrics

[sreyashi]

God Don’t Bless

God bless America and keep it where it is
Away from others’ matters
S’il vous plait, if you please
God bless the Pentagon and the stately White House
I don’t need their whiteness
Their creed I don’t espouse.

God bless the wealthy nations and their super industries
Make them forever happy with the profits and the trade treaties
God bless the governments and keep them all intact
Let them dote on the peoples vote and hide the filthy facts.

God bless our wealthy and keep them sweet and fat
Let them guard their wealth and their costly this and that
Got bless the armies and keep them armed and strong
Let them rehearse genocides and sing patriotic songs.

Got don’t bless the sufferers but leave them to their fate
I hope someday they’ll join their hands before its much too late
God don’t bless the planet but let it spin and spin
I guess someday it will turn around with an explosion within.

[sreyashi]

The Wind

The wind is knocking on the windowpane
It’s a wish, a wish to change again
The wind whispers, ’Come Change With Me’,
Things change, keep changing silently.

You change the words you often used to quote
You change the route, you often miss the boat
You change the parts of the clockwork of your mind
You change the views you have to leave behind.
It’s pious now what you once thought profane
It’s a wish, a wish to change again.

The name of the place is quietly changed someday
She changed her mind, packed up and went away
Love changes and bodies keep changing too
Life changes me, life changes you.

You change your name, you change your faith your heart
You were once together and now you live apart
You change the text, the tune you change the score
You’ll change it perhaps all over once more.
You never know what’ll change and what’ll remain
It’s a wish, a wish to change again.

[sreyashi]

Silently


You my love, you softly look at me
And touch me with your eyes so silently
Let others talk and walk as their tongue
It’s for you and me these words are sung.


You my love, when I say just you and I
You know I also means the open sky
What others mean what they want to say
Is fifty thousand light years away.

You my love, your eyes so deep and soft
You touch my songs and make them float aloft
And as they float they cast a shade of tones
That’s where I miss you most, all alone.

You my love, I miss you everywhere
In silence and where empty voices blare
I miss you even when you are with me
And touch me with your eyes so silently.

[sreyashi]

Cross The Line

Cross the line and come to me
Stay a while and let me see
The smile that hides the inner pain
It melts and melts in drops of rain.

Cross the line and show me how
My inner voice could sing you now
The lines you write, the joy you bring
It’s only you I try to sing.

Cross the line and hold my hand
Take me to a distant land
Where time is like an aging face
Where sorrow yields a poet’s grace.

Cross the line, let’s play a game
I know it won’t be quite the same
The way it was in childhood
The simple things we understood.

Cross the line but don’t be mine
I’m living on some borrowed time
What I breath is borrowed breath
Cross the line and be my death.

I’ll cross the line some day once more
I’ll come again through the door
I’ll borrow again some time on earth
You, my death, shall be my birth.

[sreyashi]

The Dusk

I’ve kept your silhouette in the dusk
What have you kept of me
The deer dies, we keep the mask
A passing memory.

The setting sun behind you
Colours intertwine
Shadows fill the empty view
The emptiness is mine.

Eyes lost in the shadow
Forgotten how they were
Forgotten the EL DORDO
The sun-gold in your hair.

Forgotten the evening kiss
The hand that held the hands
The night the secret bliss
That darkness understands.

Forgotten what we said
A long time ego
Souvenirs always fade
You know and I know.

And now the dark is gone
Dusk is moving in
I walk about alone
I feel you deep within

[subhamay]

Originally Posted by sreyashi

একুশে

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একুশে শহীদ একুশে প্রাণ
একুশ আমার বাংলা গান।
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কৃতজ্ঞ রইলাম

[subhamay]

সবাই এত পরিশ্রম করছেন - কিচ্ছু বলার নেই - তবু .......
বাংলা lyric গুলি বাংলা হরফে post করলে আরও স্বস্তি পেতাম

[fuadcse]

Oi to tomar shahor, oi to tomar dhaka
Amai niye urche ekhon aeroplane er pakha
Oi to tomar shahor , tomar gandho makha
Biman theke dekhchi tomar amar shahor dhaka

Oi to rasta ghat , dhanmondi r kache
Oi to amar bisannata ekla bose ache
Oi to nur[1] er hasi, oi to zakir elo
Oi to ekta thatta shune amar hasi pelo

Oi to tomar shahor, oi to tomar dhaka
Amai niye urche ekhon aeroplane er pakha
Oi to tomar shahor , tomar gandho makha
Biman theke dekhchi tomar amar shahor dhaka

Oi to rixa chote, toyota der vire
Oi to meraj fakir[2] elen mayer kache fire
Oi to ramedu[3] da, oi to gulistaan
hawai vese asche hatath azam khan[4] er gaan

oi to tomar shahor,oi to tomar dhaka
amai niye urche ekhon aeroplane er pakha
oi to tomar shahor , tomar gandho makha
biman theke dekhchi tomar amar shahor dhaka

Oi to notun kobi roksana afreen
Oi to rewaz korte bosen sabina yasmeen
Oi to mukti juddho jadughaar er mor
Chotto meyer rakto makha swadhinatar vor
Oi to path er jatla, bishwabiddalay
Oi to dabi asuk sammwatantra biswamoy

Oi to tomar shahor,oi to tomar dhaka
Amai niye urche ekhon aeroplane er pakha
Oi to tomar shahor , tomar gandho makha
Biman theke dekhchi tomar amar shahor dhaka

Oi to pandulipi, akhtaruzzaman ilias[5] er goddo pore likhchi amar gaan
Oi to ekta gaan tomar jonno bache
Nache o ganta shibly[6] jamon nipa[6] r sange nache
Oi to slogan lekha, dewal jure jure
Porte porte tomai phele jacchi ami ure
Ektu par ei nambe aeroplane er chaka
Dekhbo tomar asru diye kolkata tai dhaka

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[1]Asaduzzaman Nur-is an actor, entertainer and a politician and activist from Bangladesh. He is mostly noted during his early days as a Bangladesh Television drama artist. In the 90's he acted in a drama titled "Kothao Keu Nei" - There is no one anywhere. This drama, written by Humayun Ahmed (a popular writer in Bangladesh), became a sensation and the character Baker bhai who is hanged for his brutal honesty, lives on as a legend.

[2]Meraj Fakir-Meraj is a very conservative and pious fakir who suddenly comes to know that his mother's religion is not same as his. After a lot of conflict and drama the religion was over rulled by the love of his mother [A famous play named "Meraj Fakir er maa"]

[3]Ramendu Mazumder-An actor and cultural person. His wife Ferdousy majumder and daughter Tropa Mazumder are also famous cultural activist and actor in Bangladesh.

[4]Azam khan - is a famous Bangladeshi pop singer. He was the pioneer in Bengali pop music creation and started a group called "Uchcharon" with a literal meaning of "Enunciation" in the early 1970s

[5]Akhtaruzzaman ilias- One of the most renouned author in bengali literature. His famous books including "Chilekothar Sepai","Khowabnama"

[6]Shibly Mohammad and Shamim Ara Nipa - Most renouned dancer in bangaldesh and very successful as a pair.

[babonbd]

তমাল অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ। আপনি ভীষন কষ্ট করছেন। যদি আরেকটু কষ্ট করে বাংলায় লিখতেন তো দারুন হতো। বিশেষ করে লিরিক বাংলায় লেখা ভীষন জরুরী।

বিনীত

[fuadcse]

আজ আমি ফিরে এসেছি, তোমার পাশে বসেছি
বল তোমার কথা শুনব আজ, শুনব বলে তাই রাখিনি কাজ
তোমার কথাহারা গান, যার ঠিকানা জানা নেই, জানা নেই
স্তব্ধতার গান শোনো

প্রতিটি ঘরে ঘরে আর, দেয়ালে প্রতি রাস্তার
দেখেছি কথা বলে দাশর্নিক
শুনেছি কথা ভরা মাঙ্গলিক
মানুয মানুষের হাত ধরে, মুখর হতে চায় প্রাণ ভরে
তবু সে মুখরতার, বুকে বাসা বাধে স্থব্ধতা, নিরবতা
স্তব্ধতার গান শোনো

মানুয কথা বলে যায়, কথার কথা বলে যায়
কথা বলে কথা না শুনে,কথা শুনে কথা না শুনে
কথার মানে থাকে না, থাকে না তার কোনো দাম, কোনো দাম
স্তব্ধতার গান শোনো

আমার চোখে রাখো চোখ, কথার অবসান হোক
এখন আর কোনো শব্দ নয়, এখন আর কোনো কাব্য নয়
এখন তুমি আমি আর কোনো কথায় বাঁধা নেই, বাঁধা নেই
স্তব্ধতার গান শোনো

Inspired by "The Sound of Silence" by Paul Simon

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
Beneath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.