Khai Lyrics - Bartika Eam Rai
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Bihani saberai jurukka uthera Dugurchau khai ke lakhsya samatna Rahar ko katha ho thotro ritto Eka ek gumsiyeko Sajha bus ko euta kuna ma Tolaudai bityo jindagani Ta timrai agadi oilidai cha Ke garyou akhir khushi ko lagi? Sapanako ghar timro Ekadeshma thadaye thayou Purdai chau aja afnai sapanalai Nirdosh timi atha nasochi Jaau harau khushima tripta Timi timilai nai pau Herana afu lai timi Kati bhayo khulera haseko Kati bhayo nirdhakka bacheko Khoji hidyou maya sara Khokro pasal haruma Tara kahiley bujhna sakenau Akhir ma bhawana badlanchan Mausamai sari chaharhcau Galli samjhana ma Chihauchau badal lai ekohoro Kina bujhenau aja samma Samaya tyo gayo agadi badha na
Khai Lyrics — English Translation & Meaning
Springing up early in the morning, you run — chasing exactly what goal? It is a story of wanting, threadbare and hollow, stifled one piece at a time In one corner of the evening bus a whole life went by, staring into nothing Look, it is withering right there in front of you — what did you do for happiness, in the end? The house of your dreams — you built it in some once-upon-a-time country And today you are filling in your own dream, innocent, without thinking about it Go, lose yourself, be content in your happiness May you get your own self back Take a look at yourself, would you — how long has it been since you laughed openly? How long since you lived without fear? You went out searching for all your love in hollow little shops But you were never able to understand that in the end, feelings change Like the weather you come down in drizzle in the memory of some alley You stare fixedly up at the clouds Why have you still not understood — that time has gone on ahead; move forward
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About "Khai" by Bartika Eam Rai
"Khai" is one of those Nepali words that carries a shrug inside it — where is it, what happened to it, what came of it — and Bartika Eam Rai uses it to interrogate a life rather than an object. The song is addressed to a second person throughout, and the accusation is delivered gently enough that it takes a moment to register as one.
The central image is the evening bus. Someone springs out of bed each morning chasing a goal they cannot name, and then a whole life passes in one corner of a sajha bus, staring at nothing. That is the entire biography the song offers, and its ordinariness is the point.
The most quietly devastating lines are the two questions in the middle: how long has it been since you laughed openly, how long since you lived without fear. They are not rhetorical. The song is genuinely asking someone to check.
Where it goes beyond ordinary disillusionment is the phrase about building the house of your dreams "ekadeshma", in some once-upon-a-time country, and then filling it in yourself. The dream was never located anywhere real, and the dreamer is now, innocently and without noticing, burying it. Eam Rai's writing is consistently interested in this register — unshowy, second-person, closer to a friend saying something difficult over tea than to a song making a statement.
"Khai" is a nepali song by Bartika Eam Rai, and this page includes the official music video above so you can listen while you read along. The lyrics open with “Bihani saberai jurukka uthera”. You can read the complete, 26-line lyrics (across 6 sections) in full on this page — free, with no sign-up.
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