The Song

Well...technology has me mystified as usual: After getting comments that the English translation of the Hindi song that I linked to in my last post didn't show, I tried clicking on the song link again on four different computers and each time the English translation showed in the YouTube version. 

Go figure. 

Perhaps some people's computers demand that Close Captioning (CC) needs to be clicked before the translation appears?

I just don't know...

Because the whole reason that I posted the song was because of the lyrics, I figure I had better write out and post the lyrics, in English, so *maybe* it can be understood why I liked the song so much. 

This is the song sung by a husband to his wife; at this point in the film the heartbroken wife has yet to offer her husband any hope that she will ever love him.  He assures her that his love is not based on her loving him but rather because...well, read the lyric below for his underlying reasoning!

Later in the Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi movie there is a parallel song sung by the wife after she has an epiphany concerning her husband.

It made me happy to read about several people who chose to have this song sung at their wedding. 

(And please note that the word "bowing" in the translation below is most closely imagined as "respecting" in our culture).

So here is the translation of Tujh Mein Rab Dinkhta Hai:

You are my heaven

My final tryst.

You are my prayer.

My  soul's bliss.

You are the calm I seek.

You are in my every heart beat.

I  know nothing else now

Except...

I see my God in you,

I don't know what to do

I see my God in you

I don't know what to do.

I can't help but bow before you.

I don't know what to do.

I see my God in you.

So far some how

I am helpless now

But I touch you with my gaze.

Your scent

Your words

I'm in paradise in a daze

You're the light inside my heart

You're the treasure I'd ever part

I know nothing else now

Except...

I see my God in you.

I don't know what to do

I see my God in you

I don't know what to do.

I can't help but bow before you

I don't know what to do

I see my God in you.

I don't know what to do

It's a match made by God

With anklets that ring

Leave me longing

When you go by

Your shadow teased with with touch

Even when your are shy it is like my God is dancing...

Your are what shines

My light divine

I know nothing else now

Except

I see my God in you.

I don't know what to do

I see my God in you

I don't know what to do.

I can't help but bow before you

I don't know what to do

I see my God in you.

I don't know what to do

It's a match made by God

Isn't it a refreshing concept to think that a romance/adoring could be based on seeing God in the other person, instead of what reasons are usually portrayed/suggested in Hollywood movies?

I think so.

How about you?