What have you earned
Swirling around, round and round
With your tunes circling the earth
To moon and back,
A million views, a million feelings
Twining them around your little finger
Hey Krishna
What have you earned?
Krishna What have you learned and taught.
Once on the left
Once on the right
You touch lightly with your
shining peacock feathers
As the wind blows continuously
With no break as you
Play my heart and think
It is your constantly
Playing game of 'go
Seek and find' oh Lord Krishna!
What do you earn teaching and preaching
from birds to calves to creatures remaining
Joining hands in a circle and playing
Your Raaga raagnis of yore
Linking to the farthest and wishing
You are here everyday
To play and sway and realize
I am nothing more than
A mound of clay,
That you beat to malliate me under the feet of fate
That keep playing thaa dir dir
Thana dir dir thaa dir dir thaat..
Taking away the best of kindred
Gone are the greatest performers
From Ravi Shanker to Alla Rakha,
Gone are beyond Tansen or Bismillah Khan to Zakir Hussein
As you Play Your Murali,
Swirling the wind through our wind pipes
letting the breath chant Krishna
with every breath of mine to thine..
