Song: Oh Leena

Dear reader, I invite you to listen me sing ‘Oh Leena’ A poem set to music from the song Johanna from the motion picture, “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” starring Johnny Depp and Jamie Campbell Bower.
I feel you 
Oh Leena 
I feel you 

Do they think that walls can hide you 
Even now I'm miles away, love 
I'm in the dark beside you 
Buried sweetly in your beaut black hair 
My Leena 

and are you beautiful and pale 
with auburn hair 
like her? 

I'd want you beautiful and pale 
the way I've dreamed you were 
My Leena 

and if you're beautiful, what then 
with auburn hair 
like rust 

I think we shall not meet again 
my little dove 
my first 

Oh Leena 
I'll steal you 

Goodbye, oh Leena 
You're gone and yet you're mine 
I'm fine, my Leena 
I'm fine 

and if I never hear your voice 
my nightingale 
my dear 

I still have a reason to rejoice 
the way ahead is clear, oh Leena 

and in the darkness when I'm blind 
with thoughts, oh so unkind 
It's always morning in my mind 
my little lamb, my shine! 

Oh Leena 
you stay, oh Leena 
the way I've dreamed you were  
oh look; oh Leena-- 

a star 
a shooting star 

and though I'll think of you, I guess 
until the day I die 
I think I miss you less and less 
as everyday goes by 

Oh Leena 

and you'd be beautiful and pale 
and look too much like her 

If only angels could prevail 
We'd find our way, sweet girl! 

Wake Up! 
Oh Leena! 
Another bright red day 
We learn 
My Leena 
to say-- 
goodbye. 

Photography, Video Editing, Singing and Songwriting (except for few lines which are directly taken from the original song) all done by yours truly. :))

© M. Jay Dixit, September heart-to-hearts, 2023 All Rights Reserved

To read all the poems I’ve written for my dearest friend, Leena, see below:

Poem recitation followed by a song cover

Oh my Ishvara*
I'll always love ya!
Like winter loves snow 
Like fire loves camphor 
Like babies love milk 
Like lovers love moon 
Like flowers love water 
Like soil loves ashes 
Like stoners love ganja 
Like children love parents
Like orphans love friends
Like half-insanes love sanity 
Like monks love peace.

© M. Jay Dixit, September heart-to-hearts, 2023 All Rights Reserved

Ishvara, (Sanskrit: “Lord”) in Hinduism, God understood as a person, in contrast to the impersonal transcendent brahman. The title is particularly favoured by devotees of the god Shiva.

Today is Maha Shivratri, the wedding day of The Almighty Shiva. I was not a very religious and traditional person till 2021. Then, due to rough circumstances I turned to Ishvara. So, as my friend, David from https://skepticskaddish.com/said so accurately, that he is a traditional person but not for traditional reasons, now I think I am also just that.

Namo Namo!

Early Morning in front of Shiva Temple

ps: The featured image is clicked by me.

Song: Early 2023

Studies exams 
Got plenty of charms 
Ram Ram! 

He's got no bike
But he sure got a whole lot of speed. 

A cute girlfriend 
And a big family 

And when I'm in town 
I wonder if he'll play with me. 

Sitting in chair 
Got Great hair 
Ravi! 

With his sister 
By his side 
She's a makeup queen 

They struggled 
And they thrived. 
Now they're free! 

And when I'm in town 
I know he's gonna play with me. 

He's a bullet-driving 
Software engineer hm hm! 

His short-haired lady in store picking 
rainbow soles for his shoes 

A very big house 
He doesn't see 

Cuz he's always in town 
Runnin and playin with me! 

I run like a child, 1 2 3 
I don't do business 'cuz that's too hard for me 
I prepare for exam if it's easy 

And when I'm in town 
I wanna see all three. x 3 

© M. Jay Dixit, September heart-to-hearts, 2023 All Rights Reserved

Dear reader, I invite you to listen me sing ‘Early 2023’. A poem set to music from the song Early 1970 by the sweetest of The Beatles, Ringo Starr

This poem/song is dedicated to Parakh, Ravi and Aditya, the most special gifts I’ve ever received in my life.

Also posted over at dverse where Ingrid is hosting Tuesday Poetics: Hidden Gifts

M. Jay Dixit, March 2020

A/N: I wrote this poem a few hours after attending my grandpa’s funeral. This is the first poem I wrote for someone. Up until that point, all my poems were fictional/inspired by muses.

Song Cover: Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’

Dear readers and fellow bloggers, I invite you to listen me sing: To Ramona by Bob Dylan

I love this song very much, I think it is underrated. I couldn’t find any karaoke for this song on YouTube but I didn’t let that stop me, I used an AI to separate the instrumental from the official audio of the song and then I sang over it by watching the lyrics on Bob Dylan’s official website.

I love to do karaoke when I feel bored or stressed out, I’ve recorded this audio using my mobile mic, I haven’t used any music studio software to edit the audio either, I just played the instrumental on my stereo and started to sing. I hope you’ll enjoy my performance, please feel free to leave comments!

LYRICS

To Ramona
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

Ramona
Come closer
Shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness
Shall pass as your senses will rise
The flowers of the city
Though breathlike
Get deathlike at times
And there’s no use in tryin’
T’ deal with the dyin’
Though I cannot explain that in lines

Your cracked country lips
I still wish to kiss
As to be under the strength of your skin
Your magnetic movements
Still capture the minutes I’m in
But it grieves my heart, love
To see you tryin’ to be a part of
A world that just don’t exist
It’s all just a dream, babe
A vacuum, a scheme, babe
That sucks you into feelin’ like this

I can see that your head
Has been twisted and fed
By worthless foam from the mouth
I can tell you are torn
Between stayin’ and returnin’
On back to the South
You’ve been fooled into thinking
That the finishin’ end is at hand
Yet there’s no one to beat you
No one t’ defeat you
’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

I’ve heard you say many times
That you’re better ’n no one
And no one is better ’n you
If you really believe that
You know you got
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
That you must be exactly like them

I’d forever talk to you
But soon my words
They would turn into a meaningless ring
For deep in my heart
I know there is no help I can bring
Everything passes
Everything changes
Just do what you think you should do
And someday maybe
Who knows, baby
I’ll come and be cryin’ to you

Copyright © 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music

Song Cover: Black Sabbath N.I.B

Dear readers and fellow bloggers, I invite you to listen me sing: N.I.B by Black Sabbath

The lyrics are in the first person from the point of view of Lucifer. Bassist Geezer Butler, who composed the song’s lyrics, has said that “the song was about the devil falling in love and totally changing, becoming a good person.”

I love to do karaoke when I feel bored or stressed out, I’ve recorded the karaoke using my mobile mic, I haven’t used any music studio software to edit the audio either, I just played the karaoke on my stereo and started to sing. I hope you’ll enjoy my performance, please feel free to leave comments!

LYRICS

Oh, yeah

Some people say my love cannot be true
Please believe me, my love, and I’ll show you
I will give you those things you thought unreal
The sun, the moon, the stars, all bear my seal

Oh, yeah

Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I’m going to feel
I’m going to feel
I’m going to feel

Oh, yeah

Now, I have you with me under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you’ll see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand

Oh, yeah

Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I’m going to feel
I’m going to feel
I’m going to feel

Oh, yeah

Now I have you with me under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you’ll see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand

Songwriters: William Ward / Tony Iommi / Terence Michael Butler / John Osbourne / W T Ward

Covers of 2 Jim Croce’s Songs

Dear fellow bloggers and readers I invite you to listen me sing Jim Croce’s ‘I’ll have to say I love you in a song’ and ‘If I could save time in a bottle’

I love to do karaoke when I feel bored or stressed out, I’ve recorded the karaoke using my mobile mic, I haven’t used any music studio software to edit the audio either, I just played the karaoke on my stereo and started to sing. I hope you’ll enjoy my performance, please feel free to leave comments!

LYRICS

1. I’ll have to say I love you in a song

Well, I know it’s kinda late.
I hope I didn’t wake you.
But what I gotta say can’t wait,
I know you’d understand.

Every time I tried to tell you,
The words just came out wrong,
So I’ll have to say I love you in a song.

Yeah, I know it’s kinda strange.
Every time I’m near you,
I just run out of things to say.
I know you’d understand.

Every time I tried to tell you,
The words just came out wrong,
So I’ll have to say I love you in a song.

Every time the time was right,
All the words just came out wrong,
So I’ll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it’s kinda late.
Hope I didn’t wake you,
But there’s something I just gotta say.
Know you’d understand.

Every time I tried to tell you,
The words just came out wrong
So I’ll have to say I love you in a song.

2. Time in a bottle

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do, once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty, except for the memory of how
They were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do, once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go through the time with

Songwriter: Jim Croce

Song Cover: Perfect Day

Dear fellow bloggers and readers I invite you to listen me sing Lou Reed’s Perfect Day

I love to do karaoke when I feel bored or stressed out, I’ve compiled some photographs I clicked and recorded the karaoke using my mobile mic, I haven’t used any music studio software to edit the audio either, I just played the karaoke on my stereo and started to sing. I hope you’ll enjoy my performance, please feel free to leave comments!

This video was uploaded 2 years ago. I have stopped singing karaoke songs since I got well. I guess it was a coping mechanism.

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