’The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it you and you alone make me feel that I am alive.
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.’
-George Moore
September is ending. Love is in the air. The skies are blue with white, fluffy clouds floating dreamily. As a cool breeze blows through my hair, I can?t help humming some beautiful songs which have always pulled at my heartstrings. So sing along these ten beautiful songs(plus one for good luck)?.
1. Kahin karti hogi wo mera intezar(Phir Kab Milogi)- Mukesh
She must be waiting for me somewhere, the one for whom my heart beats? the one that I am looking for all over the world. Will we ever meet? Will my dreams come true?
This song describes the feeling when one is waiting and searching for one?s soul mate. Days pass, then weeks?but where is s/he? Can you wait long enough for that someone special?
2. Tum pukar lo, tumhara intezaar hai(Khamoshi)? Hemant Kumar
Call me because I am waiting for only you, my love. This night is full of your dreams and is almost as impatient as my heart is? for you.
Waiting for somebody, dreaming to be with him/her as the night passes steadily on. With every heartbeat, the need to be with someone increases in fervor and you sing along?
3. Ye jo chilman hai, dushman hai hamari(Mehboob ki mehndi)- Mohammad Rafi
Your veil is my enemy, my love. Because it hides your beautiful face from my eyes?
Imagine a beautiful, gorgeous face hidden by a veil when your eyes are so eager to look at that beauty and savor her exquisiteness. Do you feel like complaining to your princess? Oh yes!
4. Khoya khoya chand, khula aasman(Kala Bazaar)? Mohammad Rafi
The moon is looking lost in a vast sky, so how will you sleep tonight? You will remember me and think of me all night.
Tonight, walk outside, look out at the dark, autumn sky and hum this beautiful song and think of your darling. I can bet that you may not feel like sleeping at all .
5. Aise to na dekho ki humko nasha ho jaaye(Teen Deviyan)? Mohammad Rafi
Do not look at me in that bewitching way or I may lose control and make some beautiful mistake that I may regret forever.
This song will cast a spell on you, just like some beautiful stranger who may look at you in such a way, that you may throw all caution to the winds and take her in your arms?. What then?
6. Abhi na jaao chhod kar ki dil abhi bhara nahin(Hum Dono)? Mohammad Rafi and Lata
Do not leave me and go, darling because I have not seen enough of you.yet. Please give me some more moments?.
Why does that beautiful person have to leave you and go away when you want to hold the moments forever? Your heart is never satisfied and you want to be with her/him forever and ever. Why can?t this time stop right now, when she is standing in front of you?
7. Teri aankhon ke siva duniya mein kya rakha hai(Chirag)? Mohammad Rafi
Is there anything else in this world except your beautiful eyes, my dearest? My world begins and ends here? in your eyes.
When one is in love, the lover?s eyes are magical and looking into his/her eyes can give one such a feeling of contentment and peace. As if all the search of one?s life has ended in his eyes.
8. Lag ja gale ki phir ye haseen raat ho na ho(Wo kaun thi)? Lata Mangeshkar
Come and take me in your arms, who knows if such a night may come again or not? Who knows that we may never meet again in this life?
Love may be precious, but life can be cruel to lovers who may have just this moment and then never meet again. So make sure you have the most beautiful memories to last you this lifetime.
9. Yehi who jagah hai, yehi woh fizaayen(Don?t know the movie)? Asha Bhosle
This is the place, my love, where we first met. This is where we first fell in love. Do you remember how you loved me then?
When love is lost forever and you happen to visit the same beautiful place where you first lost your heart to someone who has now forgotten you, you will find this song echoing your feelings.
10.Tukde hain mere dil ke dildaar, tere aansoo(Mere sanam)- Mohammad Rafi
Your tears are pieces of my heart, my dearest. And I will never, ever let them flow down your cheeks.
Love at its most tender form. When your sweetheart?s eyes are filled with tears, what happens to your heart? Don?t just look at her, even though she looks so lovely. Take her in your arms and kiss those tears away.
And now, the one for good luck:
Sapnon mein agar mere tum aao to so jaaun(Dulhan ek raat ki)? Lata Mangeshkar
If you promise to come into my dreams, then I may sleep. If you promise to sing me a song of love, then I may sleep.
Sleep may elude the ones in love but if your sweetheart comes and meets you in your dreams, wouldn?t you just love to sleep and lose yourselves in his dreams? So, Goodnight and sweet dreams!
P.S. Forgive me for not including any new songs. That’s because I did not find any new song to be very romantic or ethereal.