Mini Muthu Lyrics by CentigradzSamitha Mudunkotuwa

As the dew-flowers make the body shiver,
as the little vine sways in the fine breeze…//
on a cold evening, shall I come to get trapped in your embrace?
if you will let me rest upon your blue-gem eyes…//

If our fortunes, and our love, endure like gems and pearls…
I love you, guarding you the way one keeps a secret…
if our fortunes, our love, endure like gems and pearls, like gems and pearls…

The love that brims over in the heart… how warm it is…
when we laugh, just to ourselves… how beautiful it is…
curled up, wrapped in a blanket of snow… taking your hand as if half-mad…//
on a cold evening, shall I come to nestle into your embrace?
if you will let me rest upon your blue-gem eyes…//

A warm, wintry romantic duet by Centigradz and Samitha Mudunkotuwa, all cold evenings and cosy closeness. It opens with the body shivering in dew-flowers and a little vine swaying in a fine breeze, and a tender question that becomes the refrain: on a cold evening, shall I come and get “trapped” in your embrace, if you’ll let me rest upon your blue-gem eyes? Longing here is soft and snug, not desperate.

The chorus is a wish for permanence, in the loveliest image: if our fortunes and our love could endure “like gems and pearls,” mini muthu. He loves her, he says, guarding her the way one guards a secret, and asks only that this love last, precious and unbroken.

The last verse dwells on the warmth two people make together. How warm is the love brimming in the heart, how beautiful when they laugh just to themselves; curled up wrapped in “a blanket of snow,” taking her hand as if half-mad with joy, he returns once more to the question at the song’s heart, shall I come to nestle into your embrace? Sung by Centigradz with Samitha Mudunkotuwa to words by Kelum Srimal, it is a cosy, tender love song about wanting to fold yourself into someone’s warmth on a cold evening, and to keep that love as safe as a treasure.