Midnight On The Mall Road

[Verse]
Lahore night tastes like burnt chai on my tongue
Streetlight flickers over puddles of old songs
Your ghost walks ahead of me dragging my name behind
Shop shutters down
My heart still open like a tired stall

[Verse 2]
Rickshaw smoke draws halos on your last seen time
Phone screen blue like a cheap neon shrine
I scroll and scroll
Digging for you in the cracks of yesterday
Every new message is just another stranger
Wearing your perfume of almost

[Chorus]
Sad so sad so sad in Pakistani rain
Same sky same dust but nothing is the same
Say it
Just say it
That you never loved at all
Because silence hits harder than a slap in the bazaar
Sad so sad so sad and that is all

[Verse 3]
Your dupatta once flew like a flag from my rooftop laughs
Now it sleeps in a drawer with my crooked exam drafts
Aunties ask when I will move on get married get wise
I stir my tea anticlockwise
Watch sugar gather in the corners like unsent replies

[Bridge]
Was it my broken Urdu of love that failed you
Or your perfect English of leaving overnight
You said we were temporary
Like mehndi on your hands after Eid
But the stain on my chest refuses to fade or decide

[Chorus]
Sad so sad so sad in Pakistani rain
Crowded little heart stuck in an overfull train
Say it
Just say it
Tear this story from the wall
Because hope is a con man at Liberty Market
Sad so sad so sad and that is all