Yeh meri kahani

Really beautiful song by Strings from the movie Zinda...

Chubten kaaten yaadon ke, daman se chunta hoon
Girti deewaron ke aanchal me zinda hoon

Here the writer, who is caught/stuck in a hopeless situation, is saying that he is selecting thorny (painful) memories that he has been carrying with him. Then the second line is that he is alive despite the fact that everything is crumbling around him. Really liked the fact that despite all this pain he calls it "aanchal". Aanchal is usually used to describe a happy/safe/protected kind of place.


Koi nahin hai, koi bhi nahin
Na pass na duur
Ik yaar hai dil ki dharkhan
Apni chaahat ka jo elaan kiye jaati hai

Here the author says that there is so much loneliness that his heartbeat is his only friend, one who is going on professing her love with every beat.