Human

Nitin Sawhney Human Lyrics
1.The River

What do we do in these crazy times?

Inside, outside, I can feel it in my mind
In the ocean and the river
I can feel it in the tide
And all day, all night, in the rithim of the city
From the dusk to the dawn I can feel it flowing in me

Down by the river
Life flowing deeper
Tide growing stronger
No, you can't hold and hold the river
Inside my head I can hear it talking to me
Like the river to the ocean
I can feel it growing in me
And all day, all night, in the rithim of the city
From the dusk to the dawn I can feel it flowing through me

Down by the river
Life flowing deeper
Tide growing stronger
No, you can't hold and hold the river
Inside, outside, I can feel it in my mind
In the ocean and the river
I can feel it in the tide
And all day, all night in the rithim of the city
From the dusk to the dawn I can feel it growing in me

Down by the river
Life flowing deeper
Tide growing stronger
No, you can't hold and hold the river

River, river flowing with the tide
River, river flowing with the tide
River, river flowing with the tide...


2.Eastern Eyes

Vocal:Nitin Sawhney/Natacha Atlas

For the eastern eyes of a life reborn
When the western skies of a broken dawn
In the first embrace of a haunted smile
With the hopeful eyes of an alien child
I was taken by the hand from the ocean to the sand
From the half-light to the day
I have come to find my way
I have come to find my way

In the burning sheets of a neighbour's pain
With the sweat of a night and the summer rain
In the cry of birth and the death of fear
For the hope of a light and the joy of tears
I was taken by the hand from the ocean to the sand
From the half-light to the day
I have come to find my way
I have come to find my way

From the tainted screen of a surgeon mind
From the tear-stained face of a haunted kind
From the shade of death and the flame of life
From the ??est blade of a surgeon's knife
I was taken by the hand from the ocean to the sand
From the half-light to the day
I have come to find my way
I have come to find my way

Eastern, eastern eyes... your eyes
For these eastern, eastern, eastern, eastern eyes
For these eastern, eastern eyes
For these eastern eyes
Eastern eyes (3x)
Eastern, eastern, eastern eyes (2x)
Eastern, eastern eyes


3.Say Hello

I knew you needed a friend.
I knew you needed some blue skies.
You need some laughter again,
til magic returns to your blue eyes.
You're lost in the circle of pain.
Where's it all going?
Each day is the same,
where are you going?

Say hello. Say hello.
You're never alone.

Something inside of yourself,
when darkness approaches, your silence.
Freedom's forgotten her name.
Nothing makes sense you don't complain.
Everything started to fall.
Where's it all going?
Can't make any sense of it all.
Where am I going?

Say hello. Say hello.
You're never alone.


4.Falling Angels

It's a time for grwon up boys
To make a mess of prety things
To lose yourself and find
A peace in your good-bye
I lost my faith in you
To distant dreams of true
Nothing here redemes me
No angels to release me

Unchain my falling angels
Unchain my falling angels
To chain me

The shadows burry me
In rusty memories
Hopes for inside
My angels call good-byes
You lost that photo-album smile
To memories fadded ,fadded,fading...
Shall we fade child?


5.Falling

Vocal:Nitin Sawhney/Aqualung

Some day the wind will change and you will see me clearly
One day these dreams of mine will bring me to my time
Some day i will become what i am meant to be coming to
One day but that's a million some days from today

Lately the sunshine makes a different shape around
Lately my music has a different sound to show me
Lately I ask questions of the world but no one is listening
Tell me when i go to sleep what will the morning bring me?

Falling, falling, falling, or am I flying?
Flying, flying, flying, or am i falling?


6.Heer


7.Fragile Wind

Haath pakad kar chalte rahe, saath samundar chod gaye,
andhiyaari se roshni tak, aa hi gaye hum aa hi gaye (hindi)
inside the dark, deepest part of my mind. Through sunshine and
rain, idle dreams keep my sane.
we're only feathers in the wind falling from the sky without
wings and
though the world may fall I know, I see sunlight through the
rain over me.
beyond the dark lie the hopes and the fears. Innocent eyes
watching as worlds collide
we're only feathers in the wind falling from the sky without
wings and
though the world may fall I know, I see sunlight through the
rain over me
Haath pakad kar chalte rahe, saath samundar chod gaye,
andhiyaari se roshni tak,
Aa hi gaye hum aa hi gaye
inside my head i can be anything (x 5 and fade)


8.Promise

Lately, lately I've seen you in your dream
Lost in a clouded mind
Held down by all the things that seem so real
The world you can't leave behind

You've made all of the money you could spens
You're begging for something more
Behind the prison tou call your home my friends
The light in the endless dark

Lately, you've followed your fears under the bed
And fell for a hundred years
Into the arms of a wounded melody
The promise that love's still here

You held a cynical world like God's bruised fruit
Chopped from a sacred tree
It's us, the enemy we fought all these years
The stories of you and me

So we hurry, go faster and faster to find that we've ran our
whole life
Forgoing the sweetest view
There's a buzz like a lightbulb up to our ears
Promise that love's still here

Retrace the steps in the snow to find your friend
'Cause the child had melt so fast
Big dreams, the future you taste on summer's time
Having it just won't last

Right here, we've all got the answer in our heart
If we could just let that go
Lifetimes of beautiful sunday church bell girls
The junkies upon the floor

So we hurry, go faster and faster to find that we've ran our
whole life
Forgoing the sweetest view
We could argue forever and ever, be clear
Promise that love's still here

If forever and ever and ever we find that we've ran our whole
life
Forgoing the sacred view
There's a buzz like a lightbuld up to our ears
Promise that love's still here
The promise that love's still here
The promise that love's still here
The promise that love's still here


9.Chetan Jeevan(Conscious Life)

I have lived life until now to the height of enjoyment
My physical body accompanied by a conscious mind
Endless desires swirl outside of me
HE is also taking me along his cosmic path giving me experience
of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling
I feel content while sleeping, crying, laughing, eating and
drinking
Day and night I think that there must be some purpose to this
life
I have come to understand joy and sorrow due to lust, anger,
greed, attachment and ego
I have started to think about what is the characteristic wont of
life and about what is the uncharacteristic wont of life,
about what is benevolent use of mind and words and what is
harmful use of mind and words
and about what is sin and what is virtue
Thus no more desire or expectation for past, present or future
remains with me
My mind has gone beyond past, present and future and beyond the
rational intellect of imagination
I see that I am beyond birth and death and am enjoying mind in a
state of samadhi

PS : I found this translation n a forum. Here is what the guy
said :

An Indian friend of mine recently translated Chetan Jeevan
(Conscious Life) for me and I thought I would share this in case
other people are interested. My friend doesn't speak very good
English so I've had to piece this together quite a bit. I'm sure
it's more eloquent in its' original form and if anyone can help
with a truer translation then please feel free!
I use the definitions given by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti-ji for
Dharma and Satya but realise that Hindu and Buddhist definitions
are various and differ.
With respect, Shriila' X


10.Rainfall

I'd like to know what's going on
In this world we're living on
So much poverty
All around me
This insanity
That surrounds me
It is the world, seems so far away
People's lives, changing everyday
Oh no... I can hear the rainfall
I'd like to know when you and I
Will stop walking and passing by
So much ignorance
That my eyes see
My experience
Cannot blind me
It is the world, seems so far from here
Seasons change, and the rain is near
Oh no... I can hear the rainfall
Oooh... Yehh....
I'd like to find a new reality
Something more than this fantasy
No more false dreams
No more mind games
I can't even see
Through this dark rain
It is the world, seems so far away
People lives, changing everyday
Ey Oh... I can hear the rainfall


11.Waiting(O Mistress Mine)

O mistress mine
Where are you roaming?
O stay and hear
Your true loves coming
That can sing both high and low
Trip no further pretty sweeting
Journeys end in lovers meeting
Every wise mans son doth know
What comes now has gone tomorrow
Present smiles are full of sorrow
But I see you in my mind
From the shadows of my memory
I can feel you walking near me
And I waiting for the rain to fall
Dust from your eyes
Angels are falling
From distant fears
Your cold hearts beating
I can see you in the dark
Or the flicker of a daydream
From the edge of silent tears
I remember and I smile
What is love?
Tis not hereafter
Present mirth
Hath present laughter
What's to come is still unsure
In delay there lies no plenty
Then come kiss me sweet and twenty
Youths a stuff twill not endure


12.Raag

(Instrumental)


13.The Boatman

Baroshekar aador meke
Bheshe elam sagor theke
Baleer toteh notun disha

Adar theke alor mesha
Batash bhara bhalo basha
Ke kandare baicho toree aral theke
(Something) caressed with love
I drifted ashore from the sea
The sand shows a new way

The light blends with the darkness
The wind is full of love
Who are you boatman who paddles this boat, whom i cannot see