Tum phir nahi aaye Shyam

Shyam tum, jaise ban 

Reh gaye, ban chhod 

ro baithi, mai soch

aaoge tum, apnaye prem

jaise varsha, baras sookhi

prem mera, umadh rookhi

tum aate, ched jaatey

mai roti, tum hasaatey

peedit hriday, mann maari

preet meri, virah bhaari

tum shyam, mai raadha

mere pran, shesh aadha

yamuna sun, daudi aati

kadamba jhoom, bahut rulati

Ab virah, sirf dauraati

Radhamukh ashru, mein nahaati

phir aayi, aaj vrindavan

baith gaya, mera mann

anth aaye, ananth aaye

maakhan chor, maakhan khaaye

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Title : Shyam tum, phir na aaye
(Shyam, you didn’t come (again))

Shyam tum — — apnaye prem
(Shyam you are my forest, you are also always coy)
(You stay back at mathura, leaving brindavan behind)
(i sit , i cry thinking of you)
(you will some day arrive, accept my love)

jaise varsha — — tum hasaatey
(As the rains , shower, and dry up)
(My love for you rises, yet a hopelessness emerges in me)
(you appear vividly (in dreams — implied), tease me)
(i cry, and you make me laugh (remembering your antics)

peedit hriday — — shesh aadha
(My love for you rises, yet a hopelessness emerges in me)
(My heart is in pain, my mind is now lost in madness)
(you are shyam/you are the fading of the day, i am only Raadha (implied as only a mere woman you know)
(you are my life, you are the only half of my life left, the other half of me is dead)

yamuna sun — — mein nahaati
(Each time i hear yamuna flowing, i run to its banks)
(Kadamba trees sway, you are absent though, it makes me cry)
(the only constant in this is my separation from you)
(my face is bathed in my tears, i bathe in them too)

phir aayi — — Maakhan khaaye
(Today I have come back again at vrindavan)
(You are still absent — implied, my heart is sunk deeper now)
(I wish for an end to this suffering, yet i see it is unending)
(You shyam have always been your playful self , running amok, eating butter without a care)