I'm sure you've heard these words before
I'm sure these dreams have come a visiting
Dropping in when you least expect them
Come to transport you
Back to a place you used to call home
A place where the roads were paved
In the sounds of your footsteps
High heels running home
Feeling breathless and angry
Because they're all gone
They didn't care to wait for you
Didn't let you linger awhile
Sing a few more notes
Before the night takes its window signs down
A place where the air whispers of cinema
Of dreams you breathe in
Ballooning up within you
And you're rising up, up
Up along with it
Because the cinema is just down the road
All your paths take you
Back into the dreams you had
Of the boy in class who was/
Most definitely an actor's twin
A place where every night is dandiya night
And a song of euphoria populates your ears
You wore the lehenga you only dreamt of
You bared the midriff you still don't have
Because you still had places you wanted to go
The world was an oyster of glitz
And every little moment was spent
Window shopping among the malls of aspiration
A place where winter brought its own jealous blazer
And socks were at our ankles just so we could pull them up
Boys would stand right outside the windows of our bus
Just so the graffiti on their notebooks become/
Gleaming crystals of a moment frozen in time
A moment of no consequence
One I'll remember forever
A life belonging to a girl long dead
Even as the evening songs float back in
And life's little pigeons croon their wake up call
I wonder whether the dead can find their way back home
Are ghosts condemned forever to languish in that circle/
Of perdition they call videsh
Because I'm pining away in a land far away
Foreign and strange/ For they have no frozen yoghurt here
The servings are never super sized
And the cinema is always way too far away
