Sheher - Gulaal - English Translation

Sheher - Gulaal

I will tell you a story of one time,
When our city was sleeping, that miraculous night,
When from every direction it was sunset,
Jugni[1] danced with her chunar[2] and bathed with blood,
Everywhere vermilion powder was stamped,
And then the big problem came,
The night when it rained blood from sky.
The night when it rained blood in the city.

The city was showered, the earth was showered,
The whole humanity was showered,
The whole world asked when so much happening,
Bro, why our city closed their eyes and slept.
Then the city told the sleep was so deep,
The night when it rained blood from sky.
The night when it rained blood in the city.

The silence was lonely, unknown muteness,
Life takes turns violently,
So many shadows get surrounded,
cluttering their dead hairs,
The darkness moves forward like demons,
Everybody has shaken from their dance,
Somewhere is that tapping sound of shoes,
Somewhere is that burning sound of coal,
Somewhere is that muttering sound of creepers,
Somewhere is that sound of water drops from tap,
Somewhere is that blackened window,
Somewhere is that darkish chimney,
Somewhere is the group of trees moving,
Somewhere something is kept on the walls, re re...

When at the junction of deserted road some dog cries loudly,
When something happens beneath the dirty yellow light of street lamps,
When some shadow saving itself from the world gets lost in other lost shadows,
When the poles of bridges are slowly washed by hot lights of car,
Then our city sleeps, Then our city sleeps, Then our city sleeps!!!

When our city sleeps, yes, do you know what what happens?
Here dead bodies wakes up, and there the awaken dead loses his life,
Here cries an women in free hospital shaking,
the next moment in her hands there is hot lump of soft meat(new born baby)
Here a loud war is up for whores in the fast business of sex,
There, a far moving dead eyes observes the blood gushing from the wound,
But because of this, wishes are sprayed in the colorful palaces,
Because of intoxicated food, arises the deadly jokes,
See, how half naked bodies are exhibited with make-up,
When these sadist faces wishes to do some mischief...

They asks with so much surprise,
when do these things happen,
So, we tells them this all happens when,
When our city sleeps, When our city sleeps, When our city sleeps...

Jugni - Name of a girl

Chunar - A piece of cloth for girls as a topping for dress