Oya As Dekata Pemkeruwe Man Raththran Lyrics by Kingsley Peiris

I fell in love with those two eyes of yours, my darling
How could I stay apart from you now?
In my heart I keep the vow to win you
My love for you is my very life, darling

My eyes are brimming, blurred over with tears
Sighs rise in my heart all night long

My eyes are brimming, blurred over with tears
Sighs rise in my heart all night long

I long for the day we meet
to tell you of my love
to draw close to you in tenderness
and spend my whole life with you

I have never once lost in this world
but if this goes wrong, there is no joy left in life

I have never once lost in this world
but if this goes wrong, there is no joy left in life

I long for the day we meet
to tell you of my love
to draw close to you in tenderness
and spend my whole life with you

A young man has fallen for a girl, and from the very first line he ties his whole life to her. It started with her eyes, that is what caught him, and now he cannot picture staying away from her. He has made himself a quiet promise to win her, and he carries it in his heart like a vow he intends to keep.

The middle of the song is where the longing shows its cost. His eyes fill up and blur with tears, and through the night his chest keeps rising with sighs. This is the ache of loving someone you have not yet reached, the kind that keeps you up after dark with your feelings running over. When he calls her raththaran, the word means gold, and a Sri Lankan uses it the way you would say “my treasure” or “my darling,” so every time it lands you hear how precious she is to him.

Then his mind turns to the day they will finally meet. He pictures telling her how he feels, growing close to her, spending the rest of his life by her side. That is the future he is reaching for. But he also lets you see how much he has staked on it. He says he has never lost at anything in this world, and the unspoken fear underneath is that this is the one thing he cannot bear to lose. If it goes wrong, he says plainly, there will be no happiness left in his life.

What stays with you is how completely he has handed his happiness to her. This is not a light crush. He has decided that winning her love is the whole point, and he is ready to wait and ache for the day it comes true.