Some songs don't just have great music and melody, but quality lyrics which tell a layered story. To really understand them, you have to dig, discuss, dissect and dream. We feature one song every week on a Saturday. You're invited to comment and give your interpretation of the lyrics.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Jaage hain
Song: Jaage Hain Film: Guru Lyricist: Gulzar
Jaage hain der tak hamein Kuch der sone do Thodi si raat aur hai Subaah toh hone do
Aadhe adhoore khaab jo Poore na ho sake Ek baar phir se neend mein Who khaab bone do
The metaphor of the tussle of day and night standing for the tussle of sweat and dreams is wow.
In one sense, this song brings out a similar message to the "Jame Raho". Jame Raho, as nishchal pointed out, is "somewhere talking about the need to question oneself". Jaage hain is about the need to recharge your passions and dreams every now and then.
The 'day', with its sweat, tears, hard work and battles drains your passion. After that you need rest. Not just physical and mental rest, but a renewal of your passion for your dreams.
The 'night' gives you a chance to get both, the physical and mental rest, and also a chance to start afresh on a day with your passion renewed. The song says it beautifully..."ek baar fir se neend mein, woh khwab bone do"
What I was most thrilled by was the extent to which the is that waking and sleeping, just like personal dreams and the reality are always tussling with each other.
There is another way of looking at the second paragraph, which brings out a hidden, subtle message. When he says, "Aadhe adhoore khwaab jo, poore na ho sake", it can mean two things....the dreams that are stuck because of a tiring body and a waning passion, or it can mean those dreams that were once dreamt but got lost somewhere, were never lived.
Every dream is special. You invest something a bit of you into it. Sometimes you get a chance to follow a dream and sometimes not. Some just fall apart. Some are just get buried.
"Aadhe-adhure khwaab jo, poore na ho sake, ek baar fir se neend mein, woh khwaab bone do." The song tells you to go back and plant the seeds of those dreams again. It's a subtle but very different and meaningful message of persistence. He is not saying....lage raho, jame raho. He is saying.....fir se khwaab dekho. Dream again...and the rest will follow.
I don't agree that 'the rest follows'. Dreaming, rather the romance of dreaming is but a very small part of 'the point'. Its not 'having a dream' that is the difficult part...it is following it through, come what may and not letting your self be demotivated by the essential druggery that goes into it, by REMINDING yourself of the dream, that is the point.
Dreams ki baat to sabhi karte hain. Sab 'lage raho' tendency ko bhi khoob koste hain. Magar lage rehna padta hai - only leeway is, aisi cheez mein lage raho jahan aapka dream hai..aur wahan lagne ka mann hoga.
रंजिश ही सही, दिल ही दुखाने के लिए आ, आ; आ फिर से, मुझे छोड़ के जाने के लिए आ आ, रंजिश ही सही!
Jaage hai...always reminds me of ranjish...there is no similarity. Or is there something that my subconscious recognizes that I miss in consciousness.
It is the need for the deed to be completed that is important and not the reality of the action, that is common. In jaage hai...I am ambitious to fulfill those dreams that are defeated by the day...but sleep and the darkness of the night afford me the privacy to soar!
In ranjish...I am ambitious to re-have the love that once was even if it was a lie. I will live it with all my heart before the falseness becomes apparent...the need to be completed is so desperate that even the knowledge that it is not real, not tangible does not matter...
Such is life, I crave nothing but a an hour of MY time to write a story for ME, but I am held captive by the daily rigmaroles of life...
Maybe the night will come and I will have oil in my lamp to fulfill this little idea that gnaws at me through the day...which is mine, yet not mine.
The song begins with almost a plea for sleep... more as a respite than a place for renewal. "Why the hurry, when there is still something left of the night?" And the weariness of another long day comes through in "der tak jaage hain hum..." and khwab jo aadhe adhoore hi reh gaye... And resignation ... yes, we will pick up the threads of the struggle, but for now, subah toh hui nahin - there is time for sleep.
As the song moves on though, it is almost as if in the asking for it, sleep mil gayi.. The tempo changes, resolve and enthusiasm filtering through the same two verses. You realise that along with the respite, sleep ne indeed, khwabon ke beej phir se bo diye.
Life is divided into two parts – the conscious part, experienced in the part of the day when we are awake and the subconscious part, experienced in the part of the day when we are asleep. And in a similar way, most of us live life chasing certain dreams, some set by us, some set by others (important in our lives). Dreams here could mean anything - a attaining a position we want to achieve, reaching a place we want to visit, being loved by person whom we love, and in fact anything and everything that we desire. It’s the conscious part of the life that we spend after chasing these dreams just to succeed and achieve some of them and fail and pass some of them to the other part of the life, the subconscious part.
I guess it is the human nature, that doesn’t allow us to call ourselves losers and so even if we fail to achieve something in reality, we kind of run after it in our dreams in the subconscious part of our life. And I think it is not wrong at all.
This is perhaps what the song also is trying to convey.
Jaage hai der tak - I work, run, toil, keep myself awake, just in order to try and achieve some of the dreams…some of the places where I have not yet failed. And sometimes I don’t mind stretching myself a bit just to make sure I give my 100 percent after those yet- to-be-fulfilled dreams.
Humein kuch der sone do. Thodi si raat aur hai subah to hone do. Aadhe adhoore khwaab jo poore na ho sake, ek baar fir se neend mein who khwaab bone do – But having done that all throughout the day, I would like to sleep for a while, till the next day rises when I will have to start running again. I want to relive certain moments. I want to run again for the dreams which I could not achieve. And all this is not allowed in the conscious world of mine. And so I request you to allow me to sleep and dream a dream of sowing the seeds of the unfulfilled dreams again.
Does the poet (Gulzar) here wants to convey that…his dreamns wont be able to stand the light of the day OR that the sleep is life and morning means the end of life and hence he wants more time to live his dreams? I don’t know whats the right interpretation.
7 comments:
Kya mast gaana hai!
The metaphor of the tussle of day and night standing for the tussle of sweat and dreams is wow.
In one sense, this song brings out a similar message to the "Jame Raho". Jame Raho, as nishchal pointed out, is "somewhere talking about the need to question oneself". Jaage hain is about the need to recharge your passions and dreams every now and then.
The 'day', with its sweat, tears, hard work and battles drains your passion. After that you need rest. Not just physical and mental rest, but a renewal of your passion for your dreams.
The 'night' gives you a chance to get both, the physical and mental rest, and also a chance to start afresh on a day with your passion renewed. The song says it beautifully..."ek baar fir se neend mein, woh khwab bone do"
What I was most thrilled by was the extent to which the is that waking and sleeping, just like personal dreams and the reality are always tussling with each other.
There is another way of looking at the second paragraph, which brings out a hidden, subtle message. When he says, "Aadhe adhoore khwaab jo, poore na ho sake", it can mean two things....the dreams that are stuck because of a tiring body and a waning passion, or it can mean those dreams that were once dreamt but got lost somewhere, were never lived.
Every dream is special. You invest something a bit of you into it. Sometimes you get a chance to follow a dream and sometimes not. Some just fall apart. Some are just get buried.
"Aadhe-adhure khwaab jo, poore na ho sake, ek baar fir se neend mein, woh khwaab bone do." The song tells you to go back and plant the seeds of those dreams again. It's a subtle but very different and meaningful message of persistence. He is not saying....lage raho, jame raho. He is saying.....fir se khwaab dekho. Dream again...and the rest will follow.
interesting.
I don't agree that 'the rest follows'. Dreaming, rather the romance of dreaming is but a very small part of 'the point'. Its not 'having a dream' that is the difficult part...it is following it through, come what may and not letting your self be demotivated by the essential druggery that goes into it, by REMINDING yourself of the dream, that is the point.
Dreams ki baat to sabhi karte hain. Sab 'lage raho' tendency ko bhi khoob koste hain. Magar lage rehna padta hai - only leeway is, aisi cheez mein lage raho jahan aapka dream hai..aur wahan lagne ka mann hoga.
रंजिश ही सही, दिल ही दुखाने के लिए आ, आ;
आ फिर से, मुझे छोड़ के जाने के लिए आ आ,
रंजिश ही सही!
Jaage hai...always reminds me of ranjish...there is no similarity. Or is there something that my subconscious recognizes that I miss in consciousness.
It is the need for the deed to be completed that is important and not the reality of the action, that is common. In jaage hai...I am ambitious to fulfill those dreams that are defeated by the day...but sleep and the darkness of the night afford me the privacy to soar!
In ranjish...I am ambitious to re-have the love that once was even if it was a lie. I will live it with all my heart before the falseness becomes apparent...the need to be completed is so desperate that even the knowledge that it is not real, not tangible does not matter...
Such is life, I crave nothing but a an hour of MY time to write a story for ME, but I am held captive by the daily rigmaroles of life...
Maybe the night will come and I will have oil in my lamp to fulfill this little idea that gnaws at me through the day...which is mine, yet not mine.
The song begins with almost a plea for sleep... more as a respite than a place for renewal.
"Why the hurry, when there is still something left of the night?" And the weariness of another long day comes through in "der tak jaage hain hum..." and khwab jo aadhe adhoore hi reh gaye...
And resignation ... yes, we will pick up the threads of the struggle, but for now, subah toh hui nahin - there is time for sleep.
As the song moves on though, it is almost as if in the asking for it, sleep mil gayi.. The tempo changes, resolve and enthusiasm filtering through the same two verses. You realise that along with the respite, sleep ne indeed, khwabon ke beej phir se bo diye.
Life is divided into two parts – the conscious part, experienced in the part of the day when we are awake and the subconscious part, experienced in the part of the day when we are asleep. And in a similar way, most of us live life chasing certain dreams, some set by us, some set by others (important in our lives). Dreams here could mean anything - a attaining a position we want to achieve, reaching a place we want to visit, being loved by person whom we love, and in fact anything and everything that we desire. It’s the conscious part of the life that we spend after chasing these dreams just to succeed and achieve some of them and fail and pass some of them to the other part of the life, the subconscious part.
I guess it is the human nature, that doesn’t allow us to call ourselves losers and so even if we fail to achieve something in reality, we kind of run after it in our dreams in the subconscious part of our life. And I think it is not wrong at all.
This is perhaps what the song also is trying to convey.
Jaage hai der tak - I work, run, toil, keep myself awake, just in order to try and achieve some of the dreams…some of the places where I have not yet failed. And sometimes I don’t mind stretching myself a bit just to make sure I give my 100 percent after those yet- to-be-fulfilled dreams.
Humein kuch der sone do. Thodi si raat aur hai subah to hone do. Aadhe adhoore khwaab jo poore na ho sake, ek baar fir se neend mein who khwaab bone do – But having done that all throughout the day, I would like to sleep for a while, till the next day rises when I will have to start running again. I want to relive certain moments. I want to run again for the dreams which I could not achieve. And all this is not allowed in the conscious world of mine. And so I request you to allow me to sleep and dream a dream of sowing the seeds of the unfulfilled dreams again.
Does the poet (Gulzar) here wants to convey that…his dreamns wont be able to stand the light of the day OR that the sleep is life and morning means the end of life and hence he wants more time to live his dreams? I don’t know whats the right interpretation.
Exactly
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