Pray For Me Brother

watch the music video here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mHFklOnKnwo


Pray For Me Brother (2007)
Composed by A.R.Rahman
Lyrics by Blaaze
Singers: A.R.Rahman and Blaaze

Pray for me brother
Pray for me brother
Pray for me sister
Are you searchin'....
Pray for me brother

Lookin' for the answers
To all the questions
In my life
Will I be alone
Will you be there
By my side

Is it something he said
Is it something he did
I wonder why
He is searchin'
For the answers
To stay alive

Could you ever listen
Could you ever care
To speak your mind
Only for a minute
For only one moment
In time

The joy is around us
But show me the love
That we must find
Are you searchin'
For a reason to be kind,
to be kind...

He said...
Pray for me brother
Pray for me brother
Pray for me sister
Pray for me brother


Say what you wanna say now
But keep your hearts open
Be what you wanna be now
Let's heal the confusion
Pray for me brother

Don't let me take
When you don't wanna give
Don't be afraid
Just let me live

Don't let me take
When you don't wan

Vellai Pookal

as the world awakens to the new year 2007, bringing with it hopes and aspirations a new year alone can, none could be more appropriate than this beautiful song - Vellai Pookal. An A.R.Rahman - Vairamuthu Classic.

for my english translation attempt of this song, pls visit my other blog.

















Vellai pookal ulagam engum malargavae
Vidiyum bhoomi amaidhikaaga inaigavae
Manmael manjal velichcham vizhugavae
Maname sombal muritthu ezhugavae




















Kuzhandhai vizhikkattumey, thaayin kadhakadhappil!
Ulagam vidiyattumey, pillayin singudhal sirippil!














Kaattrin paer isayum, mazhai paadum paadalgalum Oru mounam pol inbam.....tharumoO... KOdi keerthanamum , kavi kortha vaarthaigalum Thuli kanneer thulikku arttham.....tharumoO.....aha ..ha

Engu sirukuzhandhai, than kaigal neetidumO
Angu thOndrayO..... kollai nilavey...!
Engu manithainam, pOr oindhu saindhidumo
Angu koovadhO...... vellai kuyiley .....!

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Thola! ( Tamil song by Krishnan, Iraj )

a Tamil song..very powerful, heart scintillating lyrics set to a catchy and inspiring tune!
(no luck in finding the lyrics online..i will put it down and make an english translation when i have the time)

Album : Asian Avenue
Artist: Krishnan, Iraj

download it here:
http://mindspace.mynetcouch.com/shiv/thola.mp3

OSAMA & BUSH - Partners In TERROR . 5 year of 9/11

Five years after 9/11, fear and suspicion have emerged as the governing metaphor for urban existence. While the San Francisco-bound United Airlines flight was diverted to Dallas as a precaution yesterday the 5th anniversary of 9/11, security agencies opened up New York’s Pennsylvania Station in a short while after conducting a security sweep.

The anniversary of the attacks in which almost 3,000 people were killed within minutes dawned on the United States and a world almost unrecognizable in the last half-decade—with cities around the globe pock-marked by terror acts, whether in idyllic Bali or in London, in Mumbai or Delhi. The claws of terror seem to have dug in everywhere with seeming impunity.

With each new attack, the question of whether Bush’s 'war on terror' is the best prescription has arisen once again, along with questions about the West waging a war on Islam. All the while, people continue to look fearfully over their shoulders.

Even as the bouquets were placed at Ground Zero and the names of the dead read out, the debate reared its head yet again. In Australia, one of Bush’s key allies in the 'war on terror', Prime Minister John Howard, on Monday urged moderate Muslims to be more critical of terrorism, clearly indicating terrorism was directly linked to being Islamic.

"We shouldn’t pussyfoot around. No decent, genuine Muslim would support terrorism," Howard told an Australian daily. "We are not attacking Muslims generally but you have to call terrorism for what it is—it’s a movement that invokes in a totally blasphemous and illegitimate way the sanction of Islam to justify what it does."

The Chinese state media focused more on the US responses to 9/11. "It’s fair to say that September 11 changed the US. But what really changed the world was the erroneous US response...especially the war in Iraq," an editorial in the People’s Daily argued.

The major concern was about the kind of world Bush and his coalition were going to leave behind with their scorched earth war against Osama bin Laden. The left-leaning French newspaper Liberation said Bush had squandered the goodwill engendered by the attacks and had made the world a more dangerous place.

"The Bush administration has succeeded in destroying the huge pool of compassion and solidarity which gripped the world after September 11," said the paper. "Bush’s 'leadership' in the 'war on terror' has been disastrous."

Many Arab newspapers said the US-led ‘war on terror’ and the invasion of Iraq had pushed the world closer to a clash of civilisations between the West and the Muslim world.

The Bush administration defended the new world determined by a color-coded terror alert system where people can’t even carry hair gel onto airplanes. "There has not been another attack on the United States," Vice President Dick Cheney said on TV. "And that’s not an accident." But there have been serial bombings elsewhere in the world, from London to Madrid to Mumbai.

Let The Children Sing - War Is Not The Answer

War is not the answer
Love is the answer
Look at life through the eyes of a child
War is not the answer

Listen for they know
Eventhough they are young
They have old souls
We were once like them long ago
How we have grown

The world today is a dangerous place
And I don't know if I can go on anymore
What a world
What a world

Let the children sing
War is not the answer
Let the children sing
War is not the answer

Let the children sing
Let freedom reign
Let the children sing
Let the children sing

The world today is a dangerous place
And I don't know if I can go on anymore
Let the children sing

There so much hate in the world
That I don't know if it's fair
To bring a life into this crazy place
I'm still a child eventhough I act like an adult
I'm still making my way through this life

To be an example of life takes too much time
And I still want to party and get down

Let the children sing
Let freedom reign
Let the children sing
Let the children sing

download the song here.