Bharadwaj and Vairamuthu craft ‘Thedi Thedi’ for the album Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal, featuring Thiruvudaiyan’s questioning vocals. The track examines humanity’s struggle to locate a hidden creator. Philosophical tension drives the musical arrangement.
Released: December 25, 2017
Thedi Thedi
Bharadwaj | Vairamuthu • From “Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal”
Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal’s Thedi Thedi Tamil Lyrics English Meaning
Vairamuthu observes how truth leads to defeat while deceit secures victory. The lyricist describes a creator who assigns daily riddles with shifting solutions, amplifying human frustration.
Thedi Thedi PaakkuraenI search and search, looking everywhere.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanBut He runs away and keeps hiding.
Thedi Thedi PaakkuraenI search and search, looking everywhere.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanBut He runs away and keeps hiding.
Ottaipaanai OdambukkullaInside this body, which is just a leaky vessel,
Usuraiyum Ooththi VachchavanaeYou are the One who poured life in.
Thedi Thedi PaakkuraenI search and search, looking everywhere.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanBut He runs away and keeps hiding.
Vantha Vazhi SollaamaWithout revealing the path I came from,
Pora Vazhi IllaamaAnd leaving me with no path forward,
Kanna Katti Aanum PonnaYou blindfolded both man and woman,
Kaattu Vazhi VittavanaeAnd abandoned us in the wilderness.
Thedi Thedi PaakkuraenI search and search, looking everywhere.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanBut He runs away and keeps hiding.
Oruththanukku OruththunaaIf it’s one man for one woman,
Adhuvum Ingae KaaviyamThat is considered an epic here.
Anju Perukku OruththinaaIf it’s one woman for five men,
Adhuvum Ingae KaaviyamThat, too, is an epic here.
Karpu Needhi IdhiyaathuVirtue and justice aren’t fixed things;
Kaalam Seiyum KaariyamThey are just the work of Time.
Kaalam Pogum Pokka PaaththuWatching the course that Time takes,
Maaruthaiyaa JeevithamLife keeps changing, doesn’t it sir?
Kaalam Potta Roadu VazhiAlong the road laid by Time,
Manushan Koottam PogalaThe crowd of humanity didn’t travel.
Manushan Potta Roadu VazhiAlong the road laid by Man,
Kaalam Vanthu SeralaTime didn’t come to join him.
Kaalaththoda ManushanaiyumThrowing Man against Time,
Manusanoda KaalaththaiyumAnd Time against Man,
Mutta Vittu Mutta VittuYou make them collide again and again,
Etti Ninni SirippavanaWhile You stand at a distance and laugh.
Thedi Thedi PaakkuraenI search and search, looking everywhere.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanBut He runs away and keeps hiding.
Innaarukku InnaaruyinnuThat ‘this person belongs to that person’—
Ezhuthi Onnum VaikkalaNothing like that was ever written in stone.
Ezhuthi Vachu PaaththaalumAnd even if we look at what *was* written,
Ellaamae NikkalaNone of it lasted.
Saththiyaththil VaazhnthavanumEven the one who lived by the truth,
Sattapadi ThokkuraanIs defeated by the law.
Sattam Meeri PoravanumWhile the one who breaks the law,
Saththiyaththai JeyikkiraanConquers the truth itself.
Savak Kuzhikku Pona SilarSome who have gone to the grave,
Seththa Pinnum IrakuraanAre still living even after death.
Saalaiyilae Pogum PalarBut many who walk the streets,
Vaazhnthu Kondae MarikkiraanAre dying while they are still alive.
Aalukkoru VidukathaiyaiYou posed a different riddle for every person,
Pottu Vittu PonavanaThen just set it up and walked away.
Naalukkoru Vidaiya MattumBut the answer for each day—
Maaththi Maaththi SonnavanaYou kept changing it again and again.
Thedi Thedi PaakkuraenI search and search, looking everywhere.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanBut He runs away and keeps hiding.
Avan Odi Odi OliyuraanHe just runs away and keeps hiding.
Thedi Thedi Music Video
Thiruvudaiyan voices unresolved existential queries central to Thedi Thedi lyrics meaning. Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal presents moral contradictions through this Tamil composition.