Pyar Ki Piyas (پیارکی پیاس): Urdu Lyrics With English Translation

As promised in (Pyar Ki Piyas (پیارکی پیاس): Will The Real Man Behind It Please Stand Up?, here are some more gifts for those who wish to understand what the singer is singing:

1. The Urdu lyrics of ‘Pyar Ki Piyas’

2. A translation in English

The important features of this effort are:

1. The rhymes are intact in English as well

2. The English lyrics can be sung to the same tune

Click to hear the YouTube ('audio' only) version or go to the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuyMfBgYXuQ

Click to hear mp3 'audio' only version or go to the link provided below for better sound than the original video’s:

http://www.radioreloaded.com/tracks/?8005

The term lyric comes from the Greek word lyrikos, meaning ‘singing to the lyre’. A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view. In 1876, the word lyric became associated with ‘words of a song’.

Please appreciate the fact that a lyric is always conversational in tone and is primarily created for a singer to sing. On the other hand, Urdu poetry in a typical Eastern recital gathering (musha’ira) is narrated without the aid of music. Hence, those with a penchant for poetry need not feel vexed reading this matter-of-fact yet poetic lyric. Simplicity, though it appears easy, is a hard thing to do. Of course, if I were to re-do the song today, I would make a few minor changes to the lyric as well as to the melody.

Stay tuned for the next blog and I hope you enjoy this one in the mean time.

پیار کی پیاس

میں نے دیکھا ہے / پیار اس کا جھوٹا

میری خوشیوں کو جس نے دونوں ہاتھوں سے لوٹا

گزرے وہ دن کبھی لوٹ کے نہ آئیں

جوانی برباد میری وہ مسکراے

میرا دِل اداس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

کچھ پہلے سے / اس پہ شبہ تھا

دِل میں اس کے/ اک چور چھپا تھا

دولت لٹی / میرا پیار ہوا ضایع

محبّت یه ناچ دیکھو کیسے نچایے

میرا دِل اداس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

Guitar Lead

سمجھاتے ہیں مجھے اپنے بیگانے

(مانو تُم کہنا)

جاو تُم بھول / وہ گزرے زمانے

یادیں ہیں تلخ لیکن دِل کیوں نہ جانے

رکھتا ہے یاد بھولے بسرے فسانے

میرے یه حالات ہیں

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

مجھے پیار کی پیاس

مجھے پیار

پیاس

مجھے پیار کی پیاس ہے

پیار

©Tahir Gul Hasan 1992

Thirsting For Love

I've seen her love, all of it so fake

Plundered my happiness, she took away what she could take

Those bygone days will never return

My youth is so wasted; she smiles now and it hurts

My heart feels truly sad

Chorus:

O this thirsting for love is so bad

O this thirsting for love is so bad

From the start, I had strong suspicions

A thief hid inside her heart with doubtful intentions

Lost all the money, my love’s not been tasted

The run-around of love, leaves so wasted

My heart feels truly sad

Repeat Chorus...

[Guitar lead]

Guidance comes, from strangers and friends alike

“You need to listen, forget the years gone by.”

Painful reminiscing, but the heart I don’t know why

Loves to recall forgotten stories by the bye

Such a bad state, I might add

Repeat Chorus...

Read Pyar Ki Piyas (پیارکی پیاس): Will The Real Man Behind It Please Stand Up?

©Tahir Gul Hasan 2011