Vagabond Heart

This is an interpretation of a song I really love! It's called Dil Mere by The Local Train. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLCLvzTGFVM

How many songs do we hear these days that deal with unconventional matters of the heart? Dil Mere is one such melody, more so a poem with layers of profound connotations waiting to be unveiled. It is a stark conversation with the heart, revealing nuances of freedom that the humans yearn for in this phoney society. A confab between the mortal soul and a heart that none can cage, this song is an expression of celebrating the wanderlust in you. 

Dil mere tu hai ik banjara

Mane na tu kyu firta awara

How rightly does it specify the heart as a vagabond with no defined home to reside in. Aren’t we all like that? Pacifying our hearts, when it tries to break free of the manacles, while we actually want to embrace freedom? This song will transport you into the heart of a traveller unwilling to accept its fate as a puppet of destiny. 

This song manifests how we are coerced to pay heed to rationality when our heart knows that’s not what matters. It’s looking for freedom, oblivious of the fiction that this world is. It experiences agony and yet emerges strong embracing the strength of a warrior. This song is a spectacle of our inner turmoil exhibiting how onerous it is to listen to our inner voice and face the truth. And owing to that fact, we turn our face towards it and live indifferently.

Naakabil nadaan dhoonde unke darmyaan 

Soone din raste un bazaaron mein

Dil ke firta awaara

Jhootha dil jhootha hai yeh jag sara 

I love the part where it says, you are naive, dear heart and you don’t desire empty roads or seek silence to find peace, you are delighted even in the crowded markets holding on to your free spirit. The moments I have spent listening to your whispers are deemed to be vile in this feigned world. But ironically, everyone here is entangled and pretentious and the only hope is faraway from us like the glimmer of a shooting star in the sky. 

Listening to this song while the world sleeps in the quietness of the night will strike a chord in your heart. This soulful tale will help you savour solitude and yet let your heart speak to you in ways that are unfathomable.

Author's Note

Back here after 5 long years! Please shower the same love and reviews.
Very glad to start posting here again.

Reviews

[TL Boehm]

beautifully and thoughtfully penned. Odd how we come back to the cafe. Maybe for a moment. Maybe to linger. And maybe we start again. I think this is my fifth or sixth - "reboot"

[Surya pradha]

Woah this really makes me want to go and listen to this song which i shall. Love how you've phrased everything. Good stuff!

[Coyote Poetry]

Love can't be defines dear Anahat. When someone excite our mind, our heart. It is ambrosia of the soul. I loved the complete poem. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[Anahat]

Well said, Coyote. Thank you for taking the time out to read and review. :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Was my pleasure and you are welcome Anahat.