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Dear Lord, are you listening?

Woke up with this wonderful ghazal by Jagjit Singh playing as a background score to my mundane life. One of my ever favourite Ghazal singers, I’ve spent many a childhood days listening to his soulful melodies, along with my dad. This particular song was from his album, ‘A sound affair’ released in 1985. My dad always said, the best way to live on is like a melody in the heart. The song might fade but the rhythm can never be erased.

The power that music can have over a person or the enigma that certain lyrics hold is lost on many of the present day song writers. Today, if I need to sit and enjoy a song with my daughter, I have to first censor the words and delve into all the possible hidden meanings.

While I humbly try to decipher the beautiful message of this soul wrenching melody, I come nowhere to its exceptional brilliance. Yet, it remains one of my most favourite lines, a symphony of everything I’d like to tell my God, when I do meet him. And so I just had to share….

O Lord, turn this scorching desert into the soothing sea
Else, at least, harden the gentle tears that befall the eyes
I haven’t seen you, the heart has sensed your presence
Someday, do come and etch a form for this feeling
There is nothing else that I desire but just

Equate my needs with your means to fulfill them

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16 responses to “Dear Lord, are you listening?”

  1. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Oh yes, he truly had a voice that could slice open your heart and strum the emotions within.

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  2. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Yes, we had that cassette too. It was a beautiful compilation.

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  3. Corinne Rodrigues avatar
    Corinne Rodrigues

    Soulful – you have a gift for translating these lyrics from the heart 🙂

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  4. JANU avatar
    JANU

    One of my favourites too…a soulful song indeed from a soulful singer.

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  5. Dinesh Pal avatar
    Dinesh Pal

    Yeah one of the best ghazal singer India ever had. My favorite is “Allah janta hai” with Lata Mangeskar from Album Sajda. I remember it was 2 cassette set on HMV. Would love to listen to it again and again. link to the song is

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  6. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Corinne, I attribute it completely to those evenings with dad and his collections of the maestros.

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  7. Rickie avatar
    Rickie

    You know what my favourite ghazal from the album is? This one –

    Kabhi toh khul ke baras
    abr-e-meherbaan ke tarah,
    Mera wahjood hai
    jalte huey makaan ki tarah.

    Kabhi toh soch ke woh shaqs
    kis qadar tha buland,
    Jo bichch gaya tere qadmon me,
    aasmaan ki tarah.

    It gives me goodbumps just typing it.

    Somehow, I think Jagjit Singh gave the more roohani ghazals to his wife to sing.

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  8. jaish_vats avatar
    jaish_vats

    I agree, he did have an amazing voice….And todays songs…Tell me about them!

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  9. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Rickie, so many of them beautiful songs…..so difficult to choose. Each one a flavour for a different emotion….like this one too that you mentioned!

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  10. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Jaish, he was fabulous!

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  11. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Glad to be of service Sumukh 🙂

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  12. Bikramjit avatar
    Bikramjit

    jagjit singh is my favourite toooo.. a beautiful gazal

    I have all the albums cassettes cd’s record players the whole lot 🙂

    Bikram’s

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  13. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    Yes Bikram I agree. A truly fabulous artist he was.

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  14. Blogwati Gee avatar
    Blogwati Gee

    True that Farila 🙂

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  15. sumukh bansal avatar
    sumukh bansal

    you made my day..:)
    such a gr8 song..

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  16. Farila avatar
    Farila

    Can never pick my favorite from Jagjit’s ghazals. I think I have all his ghazals in my collection.

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