Vo Baat Baat Mein

Vo baat baat mein itna badalta jaata hai

Keh jis tarah koi vaada badalta jaata hai

(He takes a new stance with everything new he says, everything new that comes up. Just like someone keeps shifting their promise from one thing to another. He doesn't stick with one position, one viewpoint. Whatever suits his needs/motives at the time, he takes the stance that best fulfills his purpose then. When that need/want of his is satisfied, he moves on to claiming he has a different standpoint (to meet some other need of his). His words aren't stable, like a promise that assured one thing, but then kept changing to something else - never got fulfilled to what it actually was)

Yeh aarzu thee keh hum us ke saath saath chalain

Magar vo shakhs to rusta badalta jaata hai

(I wanted to be with him in the journey of life, to walk alongside him, but he keeps changing his course)

Jo tez dhoop mein sar per raha vohi aanchal

Hava chali hai to kitna badalta jaata hai

aanchal = dupatta; a piece of cloth used mainly for covering the body

(When it's hot outside, people cover their heads for protection against the heat. But when the wind blows, the same garment keeps flying away, and forget its purpose - protection. The poet is making an indirect comparison between that garment and people. That people don't always do what they originally set out to do. When circumstances change, so do people)

Rutain visaal ki ab khaab honay vaali hain

Keh us ki baat ka lehja badalta jaata hai

visaal = milan; union

lehja = tone of voice

(The thoughts of our coming together are about to turn into dreams, because he keeps taking his word (of staying together) back)

Vo baat ker jisay duniya bhi moetabar samjhay

Tujhay khabar hai zamaana badalta jaata hai

moetabar = trustworthy

(Say something which I can use to bind myself to you. Words don't mean what they used to when things were simpler, when people's honesty could be taken for granted. Now no one can trust someone based on their word. Those values are long gone. Don't keep me hanging on flimsy promises, empty talks. Give me something solid that I can show to the world as proof of your loyalty towards me, as justification of my being with you)

~ Noshi Gilani