Nubata Ma Lyrics by Harshana Disanayake

She:
To you, I am just one night..
to me, you are my whole life ….
He:
To you, I am just one afternoon,
to me, you are my whole life …
She: To you, I am just one night..
He: To you, I am just one afternoon.

He:
Because the metre of my verse went wrong,
you scribbled the poems out and threw them away
She:
your wounded heart, wetting it with my tears,
I healed those scars

She:
on the rough road full of stones and gravel,
I will not let you fall
He:
I will be your whole life, forever…
bound in love, day and night
He & She: we will become each other’s life

This is a duet about two people measuring how much they mean to each other, and at first the measure feels lopsided. To you I am just one night, the woman sings; to me, you are my whole life. He answers in kind, to you I am just an afternoon, but to me you are everything. It is the quiet fear at the start of many loves, that one person may care far more than the other.

The middle turns tender and a little literary. Because the metre of my verse went wrong, he says, you scribbled out my poems and threw them away, casting himself as a flawed poet. And she answers with the gentlest line in the song: your wounded heart, wetting it with my tears, I healed those very scars. Hurt and healing pass back and forth between them.

By the end the imbalance dissolves into mutual devotion. On the rough road full of stones and gravel, she promises, I will not let you fall; I will be your whole life forever, he answers, bound in love day and night. They finish the thought together, in a single breath: we will become each other’s life. What began as a worried comparison ends as a shared vow.