The song as explained from lyricist’s perspective. The song captures nuances of lovers' inability to erase memories of each other after their intense love results in separation. It deals with longings, sadness and struggle to move on after the separation. Muheet Bharti oozes great emotions through melancholy in his voice and he has given a great vintage Ghazal with great live music components. Cherish it while you fully understand and appreciate the metaphors used in every couplet explained in detail here, along with meanings of difficult words. 1. दर्द दिल के ये छुपाएँ तो छुपाएँ कैसे, वो सदा तुझ को सुनाएँ तो सुनाएँ कैसे, dard dil ke ye chhupaa.e.n to chhupaa.e.n kaise, vo sadaa tujh ko sunaa.e.n to sunaa.e.n kaise, सदा – call The guy wonders, how can he hide, if at all, his pains arising out of separation from her and how can he make his scream of pain reach her ears. Here, the guy expresses, he is neither able to suppress or express his inner pains and sadness arising from their separation as there is no way to reach out to her. 2. वक़्त था आप हमें कहते थे बलमा, साजन, पल वो हम वक़्त से छिन के ले के आएँ कैसे, vaqt thaa aap hame.n kahte the balmaa, saajan, pal vo ham vaqt se chhin ke le ke aa.e.n kaise, बलमा, साजन – endearments for beloved The guy romantically reminisces the beautiful past of their love relationship that once was, you used to call me with such sweet endearments but how do I bring back those golden moments by stealing them from time. 3. बुझ गया दिल, बुझे सारे अरमाँ मेरे, अब जलाएँ तो दिया दिल का जलाएँ कैसे, bujh gayaa dil, bujhe saare armaa.n mere, ab jalaa.e.n to diyaa dil ka jalaa.e.n kaise, अरमाँ – desires, wishes As he slips in complete despair, expresses deep anguish with a beautiful metaphor of extinguished lamp for heart, the desires and hopes of his heart have all got extinguished and how does he reignite his emotions by lighting the lamp of his heart once again. 4. तेरी क़ुरबत ने किया दूर ख़ुदा से हम को, अब हैं तन्हा तो ये हाथों को उठाएँ कैसे, terii qurbat ne kiyaa duur KHudaa se ham ko, ab hai.n tanhaa to ye haatho.n ko uThaa.e.n kaise, क़ुरबत – nearness Here is the punch line with deep emotions in Sufi style making the entire song come to a beautiful conclusion. The guy says, your nearness, that once was, distanced him from God as he had everything then and didn’t require to pray God for anything as he was in complete bliss then. Now that, he is lonely, how can he pray God by raising his hands for prayers as he will be considered by God as being selfish as his prayers are only arising out of his own needs and not out of reverence and love for God. The guy repeats the hook with immense pain and longings as the song slowly fades away with deep inscriptions of melody and metaphorically weaved wordings also with different figures of speech, on listeners heart.