Little by little, life takes everything away from you (cheena) until the only thing you have left is life itself.

That fancy big house you worked hard for eventually has to be sold, your fancy car turns into scrap, your wife and child snatched in the 9/11 tragedy, your pet dies, your savings become devalued, and you lose your job. Nobody really gets what they want in life, and if they do, then this world has a way of taking it away from them. He identified two main axioms that anyone could relate to. When I play this record, for a short durationĪt least, he does come to life, and in some small way he has become immortal. Unfortunately nobody comes out of life unscathed. This song is moving because of the sorrowful nature of the lyrics and the sad tone Of course, nobody is ever really gone our lives are etched like a groove into the fabric of time and space, and we too are played like a record over and over. His voice will echo into the future, when ours will have long become dust in the distant past. His voice is captured within the groove for all time thereby making him immortal (amar). I was listening to this song on LP record thinking how amazing it was that At the very least he should receive the Bharat Ratna award (posthumously) for his service If it were up to me, I would award him The Nobel for this song alone. His genius and talent in the music industry, and the joy he brought to billions of his fans throughout the world was a great loss.

It was sung by Jagjit Singh, and released in the 1981 movie Prem Geet (Love Song). Touch these words upon your lips and make my song live forever. Hothon se chulo tum mera geet amar kar do, translates to English as,

Prem geet song