Smoking Kills Lyrics Translation | Paranthu Po | Andrea Jeremiah | Santhosh Dhayanidhi
“Smoking Kills” is a song by composer Santhosh Dhayanidhi and vocalist Andrea Jeremiah from the album Paranthu Po. Lyricist Madhan Karky and Dhayanidhi wrote the track. The piece begins with a child’s plea for her father not to light his own funeral pyre and die.
Released: June 26, 2025
Smoking Kills
Andrea Jeremiah | Santhosh Dhayanidhi • From “Paranthu Po”
Lyricist
Madhan Karky
Composer
Santhosh Dhayanidhi, Madhan Karky
Paranthu Po’s Smoking Kills Lyrics Translation
The child’s argument shifts from reciting the medical consequences of smoking to bargaining with good behavior. She promises to finish her homework and even pray if her father stops his habit. The negotiation intensifies when she warns that she knows bad words and begs him not to make her use them.
Please Appa VenaPlease, Dad, don’t.
Sethu PogadhaPlease don’t die.
Unakku Neeye Kolli VechiDon’t light your own funeral pyre
Enna Vittu PogadhaAnd leave me all alone.
Please Appa VenaPlease, Dad, don’t.
Sethu PogadhaPlease don’t die.
Unakku Neeye Kolli VechiDon’t light your own funeral pyre
Enna Vittu PogadhaAnd leave me all alone.
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Chinna Paiyan SonnaWhen your little kid tells you something,
Nee Ketkka MatiyaWon’t you please listen?
Enakku Panna SathiyathaThe promise that you made to me,
Kakka MatiyaWon’t you even keep it?
Nee Enna Sonnalum SeirenI’ll do whatever you say.
En Homework Ellam PanrenI’ll finish all my homework.
Brush Pannitu SapidrenI’ll brush my teeth before I eat.
Sami Kooda KumbidrenI’ll even say my prayers to God.
Aiyoo Please Appa VenaOh please, Dad, don’t.
Sethu PogadhaPlease don’t die.
Unakku Neeye Kolli VechiDon’t light your own funeral pyre
Enna Vittu PogadhaAnd leave me all alone.
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Poga Pogaiya OodhunaIf you keep puffing on that smoke,
Lungs Alugi PogumaYour lungs will start to rot away.
Poga Pogaiya OodhunaWith every puff of smoke you take,
Heart Attack AgumaYou’ll have a heart attack someday.
Poga Pogaiya OodhunaIf you keep on breathing smoke,
Cancer Vandhu SerumaThe cancer will come and find you.
Poga Pogaiya OodhunaWith every cloud of smoke you make,
Tholu Surungi PogumaYour skin will wrinkle up and fade.
Unna Adikkvum MudiyavillaI can’t bring myself to hit you,
Ennala Thadukkavum MudiyavillaBut I can’t seem to stop you either.
Nee Lighter Yethum BothellamEvery time you light that flame,
En Kann Unakku TheriyaliyaCan’t you see it in my eyes?
Nee Uff Uff Endru OodhurappoWhen you puff and puff that smoke away,
En Kural Unakku KetkkaliyaCan’t you even hear my voice?
Please Appa VenaPlease, Dad, don’t.
Sethu PogadhaPlease don’t die.
Unakku Neeye Kolli VechiDon’t light your own funeral pyre
Enna Vittu PogadhaAnd leave me all alone.
Innoru Vati Nee Smoke PannaIf you smoke just one more time,
Nan Mutham Kudukka MatenI won’t give you any kisses.
Innoru Vati Nee Smoke PannaThe next time that you go to smoke,
Unna Katti Pidikka MatenI’m not going to hug you.
Innoru Vati Nee Smoke PannaIf I see you smoke again,
I Love You Solla MatenI’m not going to say “I love you”.
Innoru Vati Nee Smoke PannaAnd if you dare to smoke again,
Unna Pakka Kooda MatenI won’t even look at you.
Appa Unakku ArivillaiyaDad, don’t you have any sense?
Cigarette Kaiyil EdukkadhaDon’t pick up that cigarette.
Ella Ketta Varthaiyum TheriyumI know every single bad word,
Enna Use Panna VeikkadhaSo don’t you make me use them.
Please Appa VenaPlease, Dad, don’t.
Sethu PogadhaPlease don’t die.
Unakku Neeye Kolli VechiDon’t light your own funeral pyre
The song repeats a central refrain between verses of escalating pleas. The verses present public health facts from a child’s point of view. This structure connects the clinical warnings about smoking to the direct harm caused within a family.
