Mero Aankha Lai Rakhne
by Narayan Gopal
Mero Aankha Lai Rakhne is a deeply introspective song that explores the tender vulnerability of love and longing. The lyrics paint a beautiful metaphor of searching for a place to rest one's heart, comparing it to finding shelter for precious things. The singer expresses how their eyes have nowhere to go but to your face, their fragrance nowhere to settle but in your breath, and ultimately their restless heart nowhere to call home but you.
The song captures a profound sense of wandering through life, whether across mountains or plains, through seasons of change and rainfall, yet always feeling untethered and incomplete. There's a poetic acceptance of life's constant movement, like a forest swaying in the wind, but beneath it lies an aching need for one person to anchor them. Narayan Gopal's composition weaves together themes of displacement, yearning, and the quiet desperation of needing another person not just as love, but as home itself.
मेरो आँखालाई राख्ने, फूलबारी छैन, तिम्रो मुहारमा राखुँ कि।...2
मेरो बतासलाई बाँधने सुगन्ध छैन, तिम्रो निश्वासमा राखुँ कि।
मेरो आँखालाई राख्ने।
पहाड भन कि, मधेश फाँट, घुमेकै म पनि।...२
बैशाख भन कि, पानीको रिमझिम, रुझेकै म पनि।
त्यसरी पनि जीवन झुल्छ, जसरि झुल्छ वन।
बाढ्नलाई बाँकी रहेन केहि, (बाँकी छ एउटै मन)...२।
(मेरो यहि मनलाई राख्ने घुम्तीघर छैन।
तिम्रो दोकानमा राखूँ कि)...2
मेरो आँखालाई राख्ने।
उदास भन कि, खुशी भन कि, भएकै म पनि।...२
राम्रा नराम्रा दुवै नै थरि, भएकै म पनि।
जता नै पनि जोवन फुल्छ, जसरि फुल्छ फूल।
मायालु मात्र, बेग्ला र बेग्लै, (मायाको एउटै फूल)...२।
मेरो मायालाई राख्ने झ्यालखाना छैन, तिम्रो नजरमा राखूँ कि।...२
मेरो आँखालाई राख्ने, फूलबारी छैन, तिम्रो मुहारमा राखुँ कि।...२
