Lost Soul

How can this possibly be true?

How can she stand so close to someone else?

What kind of secret talk could they be sharing?

What could she possibly be hiding from me?

And if I seem like mere dust to her now,

She is free to wash me away as she pleases.

But otherwise, Nirvair [Self-reference to the artist] has no enmity with anyone,

Though if she desires a feud, it can certainly happen.

Oh, you just walked away, you young maiden [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly],

While I have spent my days in grueling misery.

I wonder how you forgot everything so easily,

How you fell so completely for others [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly].

Our dream remains stranded halfway,

The palace of our happiness has crumbled to the ground.

Looking at your changed behavior and cold attitude,

Your words have reached a haughty height, my precious one [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly].

Our love has been left abandoned in the middle,

You simply walked away.

Oh, you just walked away, you young maiden [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly],

While I have spent my days in grueling misery.

Oh, you just walked away,

You just walked away,

You just walked away,

You just walked away.

We were supposed to live and die together [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly],

This [Jatt: a member of the land-owning agricultural community known for pride and lifestyle] was supposed to marry you.

My soulmate [Sajjan: beloved/darling] turned back on their sacred vows,

And shattered my heart into a thousand pieces [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly].

Those places and those familiar paths,

Where once your shadow used to pass by.

Looking at whom I used to feel the presence of God,

Nowadays, the state of my heart is wretched.

You used to say that we would break if separated,

That we would perish without one another.

But no one has died, nor does anyone die,

Everyone manages to get by quite easily these days.

Oh, your false promises...

Oh, you just walked away, you young maiden [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly],

While I have spent my days in grueling misery.

Oh, you just walked away,

You just walked away.

I read the sorrow within every breath,

Sometimes we laughed, sometimes we fought [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly].

Those words and those alluring eyes,

I foolishly believed them to be the truth.

Go on, live your life, I wish you nothing but blessings [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly],

I will keep watching the footprints you left behind.

I will pass this life chanting the Name of God,

But you won't find Nirvair [Self-reference to the artist] even after death.

Some people are hollow, some are bitter,

Love is beautiful, but the lovers are flawed.

These celebrations are nothing but the sale of flesh,

No one is truly good, and no one is to blame.

Oh, the stars have fallen and broken...

Oh, you just walked away, you young maiden [Ni/Nee: a gender-specific vocative used to address a woman directly],

While I have spent my days in grueling misery.

Oh, you just walked away,

You just walked away.