Sanda Kada Watee Lyrics by Lakshman Wijesekara

The moon has fallen to the shore,
stars have bloomed in a night sea,
in a sky with no fierce wind,
the world has stopped, utterly still

Vines and creepers smile in the breeze,
wound and tangled in the tree-trunks,
in a way no earlier day has been,
this is a day full of wonder

On the night the moon and stars fell,
why did the world turn so beautiful?
was it because I received, one day,
your love, that had been hidden away?

A serene, wonderstruck love song about a night when the whole world seems transformed. The images are cosmic and calm: the moon has fallen to the shore, stars bloomed in a night sea, and in a windless sky the world has stopped, utterly still. It is the hush of a perfect, once-in-a-lifetime night.

That stillness turns tender and alive. Vines and creepers smile in the breeze, winding and tangling in the tree-trunks, and the singer marvels that this is a day full of wonder, unlike any day before it. Nature itself seems to be quietly celebrating something.

The last verse asks why, and answers itself with love. On the night the moon and stars fell, why did the world turn so beautiful? Because, he realizes, I received, one day, your love that had been hidden away. The whole transfigured night was really the glow of a love finally revealed. Sung by Lakshman Wijesekara, composed by Somapala Rathnayake to words by Jayalath Manorathna, it is a gentle, luminous song about how receiving someone’s hidden love can make the entire world look newly, wondrously beautiful.