Ye Jo Des | Swades

Film: Swades Music director: A.R.Rahman 

Lyrics: Javed Akhtar Singer: A.R.Rahman

Ye jo des hai tera, swades hai tera, tujhe hai pukaara…
Ye woh bandhan hai jo kabhi toot nahin sakta

This land that is yours,
your very own motherland,
Hear it, calling out to you
with a bond that can never break

Mitti ki jo khushboo, tu kaise bhoolaayega
Tu chaahe kahin jaaye, tu laut ke aayega

How did you ever think?
You would forget the fragrance of your soil
No matter where you drift to
You, will, but definitely return.

Nayi nayi raahon mein, dabi dabi aahon mein
Khoye khoye dilse tere, koyi ye kahega
Ye jo des hai tera, swades hai tera, tujhe hai pukaara
Ye woh bandhan hai jo kabhi toot nahin sakta

In strange new roads,
In sighs you muffle from escape
Somewhere to your lost wandering heart
Someone would whisper that
This land that is yours,
your very own motherland,
Hear it, calling out to you
with a bond that can never break

Tujhse zindagi, hai ye keh rahi
Sab toh paa liya, ab hai kya kami

Life is talking to you now
Telling you how you have
Everything you ever will need
But isn’t there, now, something missing?

Yun toh saare sukh hai barse
Par door tu hai apne gharse
Aa laut chal tu ab diwaane
Jahaan koyi toh tujhe apna maane
Awaaz de tujhe bulaane, wahi des

Richness showers on you
Every way, every day
But you are in a place
From home-so far away
Come back now
Oh crazy mad man,
It is now time to come back
Home, where a love claims you
And calls you its own

Ye jo des hai tera, swades hai tera, tujhe hai pukaara
Ye woh bandhan hai jo kabhi toot nahin sakta

This land that is yours,
your very own motherland,
Hear it, calling out to you
with a bond that can never break

Ye pal hai wahi, jis mein hai chhupi
Koyi ek sadi, saari zindagi

This moment holds hidden
A lost century, a lifetime!

Tu na poochh raaste mein kaahe
Aaye hain is tarha do raahein
Tu hi toh hai raah jo sujhaaye
Tu hi toh hai ab jo ye bataaye
Chaahe toh kis disha mein jaaye wahi des

Don’t question “why”
somewhere down the way.
A fork awaits now
And now is the time to choose
Which road to walk on
And now is when you tell
Whichever way you go
Is where your land shall follow.