Dasin Pa Lyrics by Lahiru Perera

With your eyes you signaled me, you alluring beauty
Secretly, why did a longing to hold you rise up in my heart
From your eyes it spread, and a warmth stayed with me
With your eyes you signaled me, you alluring beauty
This love I have never given to anyone before

Watching with all my mind and heart
Always, with those eyes close to me
In my eyes, my heart aches for you, my girl

The wishes I wished from you
Always I would gladly bear them
Stay close beside my hands, my love

A young man is caught the moment a girl glances his way. That one look from her does all the work here, and the whole song lives inside the feeling it sets off in him. He calls her an alluring beauty, almost like a goddess, and from the first line he is already lost.

What he keeps coming back to are her eyes. In Sinhala love songs the eyes are where the whole story is told, a single glance can say more than any words, and here her look is what stirs a sudden wish in him to hold her. He notices that even after the look passes, a warmth stays behind in him, the kind that does not fade once someone has reached you. He tells her this is a love he has never felt for anyone before, which is his way of saying she is the first to move him like this.

In the closing lines the longing turns into a quiet plea. He says he would gladly carry whatever she asks of him, bear any wish she gives him, if only she will stay close. The image of her staying near his hands is a gentle, homely way of asking her not to drift away, to remain within reach. It is the simple ache of new love, one glance, a warmth that will not leave, and the hope that the person who started it all will stay.