بریده بد پای من
Buraida Bad Paye Man
“My Foot Is Cut and Broken”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
May my feet be cut off if they go to her house May that head be shattered that bows to her shoulder
There was a covenant that forever she would be faithful to my love I do not know, O God, what happened to that everlasting covenant
If she comes and falls at my feet and says: have mercy I will not again lay my head on the dust of her threshold
If she draws me to the fire by the sparks of her grief's flame May my feet be cut off if they go to her house
Transliteration
Borida bad paye man, agar rawad ba khanaye ash Shekasta gardad aan sare, ke kham shawad ba shanash Qarar bood taa abad wafa konad ba ishqe man Nadanam ay khoda chi shod qarar jawedanash
Agar byayad o fetad ba paye man ke rahm kon Name neham dobara sar bakhake aastana ash
Agar koshad ba atasham sharare shohlaye ghamash Borida baad paye man agar rawad ba khana ash
متن اصلی
بُريده باد پای من ، اگر رود بخانه اش شکسته گردد آن سری، که خم شود به شانه اش قرار بود تا ابد وفا کند به عشق من ندانم ای خدا چه شد قرار جاودانه اش
اگر بيايد و فتد به پای من که رحم کن نمی نهم دوباره سر بخاک آستانه اش
اگر کشد به آتشم شرار شعله غمش بُريده باد پای من اگر رود به خانه اش
May my feet be cut off if they go to her house — the oath of non-return, the broken covenant, the resolve: even if she falls at my feet and says have mercy, I will not bow again.
About This Recording
Buraida Bad Paye Man — May My Feet Be Cut Off — is the most formal oath in Ahmad Zahir's catalog: a conditional self-curse. 'May my feet be cut off if they go to her house' is not a metaphor but a legal form of speech, the kind of imprecation used to bind oneself against a specific action. The speaker is invoking divine witness for a resolution: I will not return.
The broken covenant is named precisely: 'There was a covenant that forever she would be faithful to my love / I do not know, O God, what happened to that everlasting covenant.' The speaker genuinely does not understand the failure — not because the evidence is unclear but because the covenant was made with divine witness ('everlasting,' 'O God'), and its breaking is therefore theologically as well as personally inexplicable.
The final test of resolve: 'If she comes and falls at my feet and says: have mercy / I will not again lay my head on the dust of her threshold.' The supplication is imagined in its most abject form — the beloved prostrate — and the speaker still refuses. The circular structure (the song ends on its opening oath) confirms the resolution is genuine. But the imagined scenario of her falling at his feet suggests the resolution is costing something.
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