Addictive intoxication like that French kiss with your college sweetheart. It’s always the same without change yet you Keep taking it again an again. You don’t feel like stopping at all. Besides that, you feel so happy to have this little harmless enjoyment.
Rabbi Shergill’s voice and those lyrics and the chords of the electric guitar are just the right ingredients to make all his songs one of such intoxications. Listening to these 3 minutes songs like tere bin, jugni, ishtihaar can even be compared to the taste of a strawberry milk shake with lots of strawberry crush to indulge and keep you focused with in a small sip.
Once you catch the Punjabi lyrics and the tones of the song you remember the entire philosophy of the song even during your most important business meetings(I already called it “Addictive intoxication” so many times).
The philosophies go beyond all the layers of the atmosphere and remind you that after all you are just a form of life on a blue planet. It reminds you of your basic intellectual needs of an emotional connection with others. Be it your friends, family, lover or your own self, you need to understand the conscious connection you have between them.
The Delhi Heights - songs touch your daily life and even the habits of a typical person in Delhi and especially their philosophies about “staying in touch with the friends”.
Invariably how many times I listen to “Totaiya” I just happen to remember the good old Mario Puzzo’s The Godfather. It takes me back to the revengeful acts of the Don Carleon’s parents that ended up taking their on lives back in their own village in Italy. And similarly, the “Gill te guitar” does give me a hint of “Summer of 69”.
But I surely don’t mean to question the originality of any of these songs. The songs and their lyrics surely are far distinct in its own way.
Above all the “Bulla” song asks you the questions as if you are supposed to fill in the blanks of a college admission form, only the fields being very simple and more basic yet the most profound ones to answer.