گفتی که میبوسمت را
Gufti Ka Maibosam Tura
“You Said You Would Kiss Me”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
You said: I will kiss you — I said: I wish it You said: if someone sees — I said: never will I let it show
You said: if a rival suddenly comes at the door from your side I said: with enchantment I will put him out of mind
You said: if from your side one day you say go away I said: for another hundred years I will make today and tomorrow
I said: if from my own feet I undo the chain of your love You said: more mad than you — know that I will find
Transliteration
Gofti ke mebosam tura, gofti tamana mekonam Gofti agar binad kase, goftam ke hasha mekonam
Gofti ze bakht bad agar, nagah raqib ayad ze dar Goftam ke baa afsoongari, o ra ze sar wa mekonam
Gofti agar az soye khod, roze tura goftam beraw Goftam ke sad sale digar, imroz o farda mekonam
Goftam agar az paye khod, zanjeer ishqat wa konam Goft ze tu dewana tar, dani ke payda mekonam
متن اصلی
گفتی که می بوسم تُرا، گفتم تمنا می کنم گفتی اگر بيند کسی، گفتم که حاشا می کنم
گفتی ز بخت بد اگر، ناگه رقيب آيد ز در گفتم که با افسونگری، او را ز سر وا می کنم
گفتی اگر از سوی خود، روزی ترا گفتم برو گفتم که صد سال دگر، امروز و فردا می کنم
گفتم اگر از پای خود، زنجير عشقت وا کنم گفتی ز تو ديوانه تر، دانی که پيدا می کنم
You said: I will kiss you; I said: I wish it. You said: if a rival comes; I said: I will enchant him away. In the end: if I undo the chain of your love, you said — more mad than you, I will find.
About This Recording
Gufti Ka Maibosam Tura — You Said: I Will Kiss You — is the most formally playful structure in Zahir's lyric catalog: a dialogue carried through four stanzas, each built on the exchange 'you said / I said.' The beloved proposes; the speaker responds. The two voices are in perfect counterpoint, and neither is entirely in control of where the exchange ends up.
The first three exchanges follow a pattern: the beloved raises an obstacle (someone sees, a rival arrives, the speaker says go away) and the speaker offers a solution (I will hide it, I will enchant him, I will make a hundred years of today). The speaker is consistently reassuring — there is no obstacle he cannot manage. The confidence is absolute and almost comic in its thoroughness.
The final exchange reverses the pattern: the speaker raises a hypothetical of his own (if I undo the chain of your love) and the beloved responds with the song's most memorable line: 'More mad than you — know that I will find.' The beloved's response to the speaker's hypothetical of escape is to assert that she will find someone even more devoted than he is. It is a threat, a compliment, and a revelation simultaneously: the beloved has been aware all along that she could replace him, and knows this gives her power. The dialogue that opened as the beloved's vulnerability ends as her advantage.
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