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Uyire Song Lyrics – Shan Vincent de Paul and Yanchan

From Album Songs 2021 · 2021

Lyricist: Shan Vincent de Paul
Singers: Shan Vincent de Paul, Yanchan
Music directors: Shan Vincent de Paul, Yanchan
Movie name: Album Songs 2021
Movie release year: 2021
Lyrics added on: 26 Jul 2021

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics

↻ English translation

Uyirae unnai naan nambi vandhen

Uravae unnai naan yengi vaazhven

Uyirae unnai naan nambi vandhen

Uravae unnai naan yengi vaazhven

The hardest thing I ever had to tell my amma

Was that my marriage didn’t work

And she ain’t say a word

But I can tell by the silence on the other side of this phone

Her mind was on the family’s reputation

Cause us tamizh folks don’t get divorced

We just stick it out cause we fear the stigma

Stick it out cause we stuck it out

But I can’t raise no child in a house

With no love

And I can’t come to forgive myself

For the way I weighed you down and how

I led you down to the road

I knew I won’t come

Ya, even after everything we overcame

I think we both knew that this was the end of the

Pretending pretending

That we hadn’t fallen out of love forever ago

Tried to work it out a million times

But knowin’ million and one was inevitable

I pray that one day you finally find it inside

You to truly forgive me.. I know

Every decision I made in that summer

Will eat me alive till the end of my days

How can I ever regret it if we were

Just sacrifices for her to be born

Mimi couldn’t have a better mother

Never would I want it any different

I’m must hoping we can take it easy on each other

For the sake of raising her with love

Uyirae unnai naan nambi vandhen

Uravae unnai naan yengi vaazhven

Uyirae unnai naan nambi vandhen

Uravae unnai naan yengi vaazhven

My dear life, I came trusting in you,

My beloved, I will live longing for you.

My dear life, I came trusting in you,

My beloved, I will live longing for you.

The hardest thing I ever had to tell my mother

Was that my marriage didn’t work out,

And she didn’t say a single word.

But I could tell by the silence on the other end of the phone

Her mind was on the family’s reputation,

Because we Tamil people don’t get divorced.

We just stay together because we fear the social stigma,

Enduring it simply because we have always endured it.

But I cannot raise a child in a house

With no love.

And I cannot bring myself to forgive myself

For the way I weighed you down and how

I led you down a road

That I knew I wouldn't follow.

Yeah, even after everything we overcame,

I think we both knew that this was the end of

Pretending, pretending

That we hadn’t fallen out of love a long time ago.

We tried to work it out a million times,

Yet knowing a million and first attempt was inevitable.

I pray that one day you will find it inside

Your heart to truly forgive me... I know

Every decision I made during that summer

Will eat me alive until the end of my days.

Yet how can I ever regret it, if our struggles were

Just the sacrifice made for our daughter to be born?

Mimi could not have a better mother,

I would never want it any other way.

I only hope we can be gentle with each other,

For the sake of raising her with love.

My dear life, I came trusting in you,

My beloved, I will live longing for you.

My dear life, I came trusting in you,

My beloved, I will live longing for you.

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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This deeply intimate and raw track explores the pain, guilt, and social pressure surrounding divorce in the South Asian and Tamil diaspora. The narrator shares the painful moment of confessing his failed marriage to his mother, addressing the deep-seated cultural stigma against divorce where couples are expected to stay together regardless of love.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Anaphora / Refrain

“Uyirae unnai naan nambi vandhen”

The repetitive Tamil refrain 'Uyirae unnai naan nambi vandhen...' frames the track with emotional longing, contrasting the raw English narrative.

Epizeuxis

“Pretending pretending”

The immediate repetition of the word 'pretending' emphasizes the exhausting facade of keeping up a broken relationship.

Hyperbole

“Tried to work it out a million times”

Exaggeration ('million times') is used to express the endless efforts made to salvage the relationship.

Personification / Metaphor

“Will eat me alive till the end of my days”

Guilt is personified as a creature that will 'eat me alive', conveying intense psychological torment.

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Trivia

Shan Vincent de Paul is an Eelam Tamil-Canadian artist. This song addresses his real-life divorce and his daughter Mimi, boldly confronting the taboo of divorce in traditional Tamil society.

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