Name: Ik Sheher - A City
Duration: P00H07M50S
Description: An exploration of loss and displacement, set in the classic Ghazal form, accompanied by dilruba

Ik Sheher - A City

from Jaago - Wake Up by Samia Malik

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An exploration of loss and displacement, set in the classic Ghazal form, accompanied by dilruba

lyrics

Original Urdu followed by English translation:

Ik Sheher

Ik sheher phookarta hae
Kaise waha me jaoon?
Dil me pahar-e-khoaf oothe hae
In ko kaise hutaoon?

Oonhe me yaad hoon mugur
Upnai aap ko bhool gayi
Kaha dhoondoo wo masoom lurki
Oos ko kahan she meh laoon?
Ik sheher phookarta hae

Sudian beet gayi hae
Bichhur gayai sarae saathi
Be-jurr hoon, me soorat upni
Roz roz nahi bunaoon
Ik sheher phookarta hae
Ik sheher phookarta hae

Do jahan me reheti hoon
In ko kaiseh munaoon?
Kaha dhoondoo upnai khooda?
Kis zubaan me me gaoon?
Ik sheher phookarta hae

A City

A city calls me
How can I go there?
How can I shift a mountain
Of fear in my heart

They remember me
But I have forgotten myself
Where shall I look for that
Innocent child?
A city calls me

Centuries have passed
All I knew are lost
Rootless, I invent
A new face every day
A city calls me

How can I reconcile
These two worlds?
Where shall I seek my gods?
In which language shall I sing?
A city calls me

credits

from Jaago - Wake Up, released October 30, 2004
Lyrics, music, vocals, arrangement: Samia Malik
Dilruba, Musical direction,: Baluji Shrivastav

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Samia Malik UK

Samia writes and performs songs based on traditional Urdu Ghazal (a highly refined union of poetry with music) extending and subverting the form to explore contemporary issues around identity, race and gender. She has collaborated with acclaimed artists including Baluji Shrivastav OBE, Mallika Sarabhai, Guiliano Modarelli, Seemab Gul, Al MacSween, Sukhdeep Dhanjal, Sianed Jones and Cris Cheek. ... more