Liyuu Kavi Lyrics by Harshana Disanayake

The poems I wrote, that much,
how much I searched for you in verse,
you do not know,
you do not know,
as much as the sleepless bed,
as much as I lay awake..

Telling my sorrow to the dark,
the tears I wept, that much,
the moon does not know…
the moon does not know..
as much as I loved the moon….

Keeping you close in my heart,
how much I kissed you in my mind,
you do not know..
you do not know..
as much as my heart endured the sighs…

The poems I wrote, that much,
how much I searched for you in verse,
you do not know,
you do not know,
as much as the sleepless bed,
as much as I lay awake…

A tender song of hidden, unspoken love, all of it summed up in one repeated ache: you do not know. The singer measures a secret devotion by the poems written and how deeply he searched for the beloved inside every verse, and by the sleepless bed, the nights lain awake, none of which she ever knew.

The second verse turns to the night sky. He tells his sorrow to the dark and weeps tears the moon never saw, as much as I loved the moon. Even the moon, his one companion through the long nights, is unaware of the depth of what he felt. The loneliness is complete: no person and no thing witnessed it.

The last verse is the most intimate. He kept the beloved close in my heart, kissed her in my mind, and his heart endured the sighs, and still, you do not know, you do not know. Sung by Harshana Disanayake to words by Sharmila Jayasingha, it is a quiet, aching song about a love carried entirely in secret, and the sorrow of loving someone who never knew how much.