Anil Jeengar - If I Were Nothing (A Thought of Ghalib) Lyrics

Before the world had shape or sound
Before the stars could burn and drown
There was only silence only light
Only God beyond the night

But then I came a name a face
Bound by time lost in space
This weight of being drags me deep
If I were nothing I'd be free

Oh what was I before the fall?
Before this mind before it all?
If I were dust upon the air
Would I still feel would I still care?

Every breath is just a chain
Tied to longing tied to pain
Drowned beneath the weight of "me"
If I were nothing who would I be?

I chase the shadow run in vain
A prisoner of my own name
God was whole before I came
Now I'm lost inside the flame

Oh what was I before the fall?
Before this mind before it all?
If I were dust upon the air
Would I still feel would I still care?

If I could slip beyond the veil
Where silence sings where love prevails
Would I dissolve into the night?
Or would I finally burn in light?

To be to break to fade away
A fleeting thought a breath astray
If I were nothing God remains
But in my being-I am chained