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Translated from the original song in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore
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Dear, what do you call thought
Dear, what do you name pain
Dear, what do you name pain
All of you talk day and night
So much about 'love' –
So much about 'love' –
Dear, what do you call ‘love’!
Is it only filled with hurt?
Is it only filled with hurt?
Is it only the teardrops?
Is it only the sad sighs?
Is it only the sad sighs?
Why then do they
Seeking what pleasure
Hope for such gloom?
Seeking what pleasure
Hope for such gloom?
To my eye, all seems beautiful
All young, all chaste,
The deep blue sky, the green groves,
The deep blue sky, the green groves,
The profound moonlight, and tender bloom –
They all are like me.
They all are like me.
They just laugh away, and sing aloud,
Laughing and playing, they wish to die –
Laughing and playing, they wish to die –
They know not pain, they know not tear,
They know not the aches of affection.
They know not the aches of affection.
The flower cheerfully wilts away,
The moonlight gaily fades off,
The moonlight gaily fades off,
Laughing in a sea of light
The stars slowly lose their form.
The stars slowly lose their form.
Who is more content than me.
Come dear, o come to me –
Come dear, o come to me –
The blissful song of this content heart
Shall fill your mind, and balm your soul.
Shall fill your mind, and balm your soul.
If you will merely cry each day
Just this one day then laugh aloud –
Just this one day then laugh aloud –
Just this one day, forgetting your grief
Let's all sing in unison
Let's all sing in unison
Dear, what do you call thought
Dear, what do you name pain
Dear, what do you name pain
All of you talk day and night
So much about 'love' –
So much about 'love' –
Dear, what do you call ‘love’!
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Bengaluru, KA,
July, 2007
