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The credit for this meaning goes to Srinivasan .

Why This Kolaveri Di (Why this murderous rage, girl?)

The lyrics of this song is rather simple and is written in the easiest form of Tanglish , a mixture of Tamil and English . The lyrics portray the feelings of an average Indian boy, who has failed in love, or who has some problems with his girl. The song starts as mentioned below:
“Yo boys I am sing song, soup song, flop song. Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri Kolaveri Di, Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri Kolaveri Di.”
Glossary

Why this Kolaveri Di? : Why do you have this Kolaveri, Girl? (Represents the guy’s feeling after his girlfriend ditched him).
Kolaveri: Urge to Kill/Torment/Hurt (meaning varies on situation) someone. Used in a lighter vein in the song and Tamil slang.

Soup Song : A song about failing in love.

Soup Boys : Men who have failed in love.

Sariyaa Vaasi : Play the music properly.

Showed me Bouv-u : Rejected me (When you go near a dog, it barks ‘Bow’ which means, go away don’t come near me. Similarly when you go after a girl and she shoos you away, it is called showing ‘Bow-u’. In a funny way.)[9]

Da or Mama : Tamil variant of “Dude” or “Bro”

Di : Tamil variant of “Girl” or “Babe”

Notes eduthuko… Appadiye kaiyla snacks eduthuko : Take notes… And have some snacks in hand. (This line precedes the verse in which Dhanush sings about having Scotch Whiskey. In India, it is customary to have some snacks alongside alcoholic drinks).

Appadiye kaiyla sax eduthuko : Even though the youtube viral video lyrics mentioned ‘snacks’ & Dhanush’s lip movement matches the words Snacks, popular alternate understanding is its actually Sax as for Saxophone, as the song continues into a saxophone tune pa pa paan pa pa, and the singer hints the player to play the music properly ‘Sariyaa Vaasi’ then after a hiatus in the middle the song starts again ‘one, two, three, four’ the Saxophone is actually played in the same pa pa paan tune.

Lyrics

Yo boys i am singing song
Soup song…
Flop song …
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
Rhythm correct
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
Maintain this
Why this kolaveri..aaa di.

Distance la moonu moonu moonu coloru whiteu
white background nightu nigthu
nightu coloru blacku
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di

White skin-u girl-u girl-u
Girl-u heart-u black-u
Eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u
My future dark
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di

Maama notes eduthuko
Apdiye kaila snacks eduthuko
Pa pa paan pa pa paan pa pa paa pa pa paan
Sariya vaasi
Super maama ready
Ready 1 2 3 4

Whaa wat a change over maama
Ok maama now tune change-u
Kaila glass only english
Hand la glass
Glass la scotch
Eyes-u full-aa tear-u
Empty life-u
Girl-u come-u
Life reverse gear-u
Lovv-u lovv-u, oh my lovv-u
You showed me bouv-u
Cow-u cow-u holi cow-u
i want u hear now-u
god i m dying now-u
she is happy how-u

This song for soup boys-u
We dont have choice-u
Why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di [x4]
Flop song