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Pahilo Junima Lyrics - 1974AD

1974AD

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Dherai dherai aauchha mann ma
Tita mitha jhajhalko haru
Sadhai sadhai geeta banera
Kahile kaahin seeta banera
Kahile timrai dhadkan banera

Kahile dherai mitho yaada banera
Dherai dherai aauchha mann ma
Tita mitha jhajhalko haru
Sadhai sadhai geeta banera
Kahile kaahin seeta banera

Kahile timrai dhadkan banera
Kahile dherai mitho yaada banera
Sayad meri priye po thyau ki
Pahilo junima
Sayad timi nai po thiyau ki

Mero mutuma
Mero aankha ma, mero dhadkan ma
Mero biswas ma, mero aatma ma…
Pahilo junima..
Sayad meri priye po thyau ki
Pahilo junima

Sayad timi nai po thiyau ki
Mero mutuma
Mero aankha ma, mero dhadkan ma
Mero biswas ma, mero aatma ma…
Pahilo junima..

Dherai dherai aauchha mann ma
Tita mitha jhajhalko haru
Sadhai sadhai geeta banera
Kahile kaahin seeta banera
Kahile timrai dhadkan banera

Kahile dherai mitho yaada banera
Dherai dherai aauchha mann ma
Tita mitha jhajhalko haru
Sadhai sadhai geeta banera
Kahile kaahin seeta banera

Kahile timrai dhadkan banera
Kahile dherai mitho yaada banera
Dherai mitho yaada banera
Dherai mitho yaada banera
Dherai mitho yaada banera

Pahilo Junima Lyrics — English Translation & Meaning

They come into my mind so often, so often,
these bitter-and-sweet flashes of memory
Always, always, turning into a song
Sometimes turning into dew
Sometimes turning into your own heartbeat

Sometimes turning into a very sweet memory
They come into my mind so often, so often,
these bitter-and-sweet flashes of memory
Always, always, turning into a song
Sometimes turning into dew

Sometimes turning into your own heartbeat
Sometimes turning into a very sweet memory
Perhaps you were my beloved
in the first lifetime
Perhaps it was you, after all,

inside my heart,
in my eyes, in my heartbeat,
in my faith, in my soul...
In the first lifetime...
Perhaps you were my beloved
in the first lifetime

Perhaps it was you, after all,
inside my heart,
in my eyes, in my heartbeat,
in my faith, in my soul...
In the first lifetime...

They come into my mind so often, so often,
these bitter-and-sweet flashes of memory
Always, always, turning into a song
Sometimes turning into dew
Sometimes turning into your own heartbeat

Sometimes turning into a very sweet memory
They come into my mind so often, so often,
these bitter-and-sweet flashes of memory
Always, always, turning into a song
Sometimes turning into dew

Sometimes turning into your own heartbeat
Sometimes turning into a very sweet memory
Turning into a very sweet memory
Turning into a very sweet memory
Turning into a very sweet memory

About "Pahilo Junima" by 1974AD

1974AD are among the most important bands in modern Nepali music, and "Pahilo Junima" is one of the songs that made the case for Nepali rock as something other than an imitation of Western forms. Its central idea is entirely local: the jun, the lifetime, in a cycle of many.

The title phrase means "in the first lifetime", and the song's key word is sayad — perhaps. It never claims reincarnation as a fact. It offers a hesitant suggestion: perhaps you were my beloved in the first lifetime, perhaps it was you all along, inside my heart, my eyes, my heartbeat, my faith, my soul. That escalating list moves from the physical to the spiritual without ever losing the qualifier.

The verses describe memory as something that keeps changing form. The same recollections come back as a song, then as dew, then as the beloved's own heartbeat, then as a sweet memory again. Memory is not a fixed thing being retrieved; it is a substance that keeps taking new shapes, which is a far better description of how remembering actually works.

The phrase "tita mitha" — bitter and sweet — is doing quiet work at the start. It establishes before anything else that this is not straightforward nostalgia. What returns so often is a mixture, and the song never separates the two halves.

"Pahilo Junima" is a nepali song by 1974AD, and this page includes the official music video above so you can listen while you read along. The lyrics open with “Dherai dherai aauchha mann ma”. You can read the complete, 41-line lyrics (across 8 sections) in full on this page — free, with no sign-up.

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