- published: 29 Feb 2016
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Colaba ([koˈlaːbaː]) is a part of the city of Mumbai, India, and also a Lok Sabha constituency. During Portuguese rule in the 16th century, the island was known as Candil. After the British took over the island in the late 17th century, it was known as Colio.
The name Colaba, comes from Kolabhat, a word in the language of Kolis, the indigenous inhabitants of the islands, before the arrival of Portuguese. The area that is now Colaba was originally a region consisting of two islands: Colaba and Little Colaba (or Old Woman's Island). The island of Colaba was one of the Seven islands of Bombay ruled by the Portuguese.
The Portuguese had acquired these lands from the Sultanate of Cambay by the Treaty of Bassein (1534). The group of islands was given by Portugal to Charles II of England as dowry when he married Catherine of Braganza. The cession of Bombay and dependencies was strongly resented by Portuguese officials in Goa and Bombay, who resisted transfer of possession for several years, while the English representatives were confined to the island of Anjediva while negotiations continued. Angered by the back-tracking, Charles II leased these lands to the British East India Company for a nominal annual rent. Gerald Aungier, second Governor of Bombay (1672), and the president of the English settlement of Surat, took possession of Colaba and Old Woman's Island on behalf of the Company in 1675.
Every move you make is wrong
Another bump on a road that is long
You fight back again
Try harder my friend
And may i ask you why
Do you try
It hurts to watch you
And i know how it feels
It kills to watch you fail
Everything boils down to one wrong move
Never makes sense and then you lose
Again you fall
Lose it all
You try again
and then my friend
You fail again
And you fall on down again
Failure is your best known friend
You try hard but you lose
(I really got to give it to you)
Yet you refuse to give in
(But I Won't)
Give it all up and go on home
Nobody will care you'll be left alone
Just leave here now and go on home
And may i ask you why
Do you try
It hurts to watch you
And i know how it feels
It kills to watch you fail
Everything boils down to one wrong move
Never makes sense and then you lose
Again you fall
Lose it all
You try again
and then my friend
You fail again
So as you fall
does it hurt
So as you fail
does it burn
to learn that no one wants you
So leave here
Go on home and be all alone
And may i ask you why
Do you try
It hurts to watch you
And i know how it feels
It kills to watch you fail
Everything boils down to one wrong move
Never makes sense and then you lose
Again you fall
Lose it all
You try again
and then my friend
You fail again
So as you fall
does it hurt
So as you fail
does it burn
to learn that no one wants you
So leave here