Kapil Kapilan’s ‘Election’ album track features Gnanakaravel’s lyrics and Govind Vasantha’s composition. The music amplifies themes of deep personal sorrow. Kapilan delivers vocals weighted with despair over minimal instrumentation.
Election
Kapil Kapilan • From “Election”
Election Lyrics Meaning Kapil Kapilan | Election
Gnanakaravel compares the heart to a bird straining under a boulder’s weight. His earthquake metaphor questions how fragile beings endure massive trauma. The translated lines ask if dawn will ever relieve perpetual darkness.
Nettraai NaalaiYesterday has turned into tomorrow.
Vidinthida KoodaathaaShouldn’t the dawn just break?
Nerntha Kaayam NeengaathaaWon’t this inflicted wound ever heal?
Oru Naal KooththaaiLike a fleeting one-day performance,
Indru Vaazhvaanathaelife has unfolded today.
Maru Naal VaazhkkaiThe very next day’s existence,
Mann Meethu Meenaanathaehas become like a fish stranded on the sand.
Paarai Thookki SellumCarrying a heavy rock,
Paravai Pola Nenjammy heart is like a struggling bird.
Paaram Thaangaamal Thadumaari SaayumUnable to bear the burden, it stumbles and falls.
Thookkam Illai KannilThere is no sleep in my eyes.
Thulai Podum Thunbam NenjilSorrow drills a hole deep in my heart.
Boomi Thaangum BoogambamThe earth can withstand an earthquake,
Poo Thaangumaabut can a delicate flower bear it?
Mmm Nathiyin SuzhiyilTrapped in the river’s whirlpool,
Padakenda Nilai KulainthaenI have lost my balance like a boat.
Vithiyin PidiyilCaught in the grip of fate,
Vizhi Pithungi AlaigiraenI wander with eyes wide in terror.
Maru Ganamae MarakkumIt forgets in the very next moment,
Mazhalaiyin Manam VaravaeI wish for a child’s innocent mind to come to me.
Athu Pol ValigalJust like that, these pains,
Nodu Pozhuthil MarakkanumaeI need to forget them in a split second.
Nooraandu VaazhnthaalIf we lived for a hundred years,
Namai Serum Kastamthe suffering that would reach us…
Orr Aandil Nigazhnthaalif it all happened in a single year,
Ennaavaen Oh Naanumoh, what would become of me?
Ennaasaigal SitharuthuMy desires are shattering,
Kannaadi Sillaailike shards of broken glass.
Intha VaazhvaeIs this life,
Thunbaththin Vizhaakolomaajust a festival of sorrow?
Naalai MaaraathoWill tomorrow never change?
Election Music Video
A plea for time to halt anchors the ‘Election’ lyrics meaning. Listeners seeking clarity find Kapilan’s Tamil lyrics in English crucial for grasping the scale of emotional collapse. The song documents paralysis after irreversible loss.