Longing - Nitin Sawhney feat. Nicki Wells & Ashwin Srinivasan, Coke Studio @ MTV Season 2 video free download

This song is primarily about an overpowering sense of longing. Based on a poem written by Nitin's mother, this song is about longing for a person, a life, a home land...

It is the chahat one has for various things in life one hasn't received yet. This composition is very metaphoric and elegant.

CREDITS:

Composer & Producer: Nitin Sawhney

Language: English & Hindi

Lyrics: Saroj Sawhney

Vocals: Samidha Joglekar, Nicki Wells, Ashwin Srinivasan

Keys: Nitin Sawhney

Bass: Mohini Dey

Flute: Ashwin Srinivasan

Drums: Jivraj Singh

Tabla: Vikaash Sankadecha

Recorded by: Steve Fitzmaurice, Ashish Manchanda (Flying Carpet Productions, Mumbai), assisted by Thorsten Muller

Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice at the Pierce Rooms, London

Mastered by Bunt Stafford Clark at the Pierce Rooms, London.

Song synopsis:

No way you could hold back time

The world will turn the sun will shine

Its all for you

Give up searching, let it go

The moon will rise the rivers flow

Its all for you

No way you could hold back time

The world will turn the sun will shine

Its all for you

Give up searching, let it go

The moon will rise the rivers flow

Its all for you

Tujhe najron se piya

Teri khushboo main jiya

Sab tere hai, sab tere hai

Teri palkon ko chhua

Aur dhadkan ko suna

Sab tere hai, sab tere hai

No way you could hold back time

The world will turn the sun will shine

Its all for you

Give up searching, let it go

The moon will rise the rivers flow

Its all for you

Tujhe najron se piya

Teri khushboo main jiya

Sab tere hai, sab tere hai

Teri palkon ko chhua

Aur dhadkan ko suna

Sab tere hai, sab tere hai

Pyas badhti gayi

Hosh ghatthi gayi

Chah badti gayi

Mad kafi na hua

No way you could hold back time

The world will turn the sun will shine

Its all for you

Give up searching, let it go

The moon will rise the rivers flow

Its all for you

No way you could hold back time

The world will turn the sun will shine

Its all for you

Give up searching, let it go

The moon will rise the rivers flow

Its all for you

Tujhe najron se piya

Teri khushboo main jiya

Sab tere hai, sab tere hai.

Meaning of the song:

The poet is suggesting a complete surrender to the cycle of time; he cites many examples like that of the never ending wheel of time, flow of rivers, the impartial spread of sunlight and the unfailing rise of the moon at night.

The poet by stating these facts, wants to convey the eternal truth of life-that there is no need to search and long for anything...all that surrounds us, is in us and is for us. We are an integral part of the big beautiful picture and hence are an inseparable part of that cycle of life.

Giving in to desires, will only bring more restlessness and dissatisfaction, hence its best to give up the strife and become one with this flow!