Madu Saden Thawath Supun Sandak Lyrics

From this honey moon, another full moon is rising
You are the dancing beauty of my love story
From this honey moon, another full moon is rising

Searching for the sweet balm of love, building a seven storey palace
Looking for one more new world, let us take flight and go
You are the dancing beauty of my love story
From this honey moon, another full moon is rising

For the smile born in my heart, your affection is the spring it flows from
Becoming a flower of love on the creeper, I turn new again, my darling
You are the dancing beauty of my love story
From this honey moon, another full moon is rising

A man is singing to the woman he loves, early in a marriage or a love that has just been sealed, and he is happy in a way he cannot keep quiet about. There is no ache anywhere in this song. It is a man looking at his wife and deciding that the good part has only started.

The opening line carries the whole idea. Madhu sanda is the honeymoon, literally the honey moon, and he says that out of this one, another full moon is already rising. One perfect thing does not end and give way to something lesser. It gives way to the next perfect thing. In Sinhala song the full moon stands for a beauty that is complete and calm, so saying a new full moon keeps rising is his way of promising her that the sweetness will not run out.

He calls her nalangana, the celestial dancer, the apsara of temple painting and old verse. Coming from a village Sinhala vocabulary, that word is high praise. She is not just the girl he married, she is the dancing figure at the centre of the love story he is telling. And the story he wants is grand. He talks about building a sath mahal viman, the seven storey mansion of kings and of legend, then in the same breath asks her to spread wings and fly off with him to find a new world. Between those two lines you get both halves of what young couples want, a home solid enough to last and the freedom to leave everything behind together.

The last verse is the tender one. He says the smile born in his heart has a source, and the source is her kindness. Then he calls himself a flower opening on a creeper, made new again by her. A creeper needs something to climb, and he is admitting he is the one being held up. That is a quiet thing for a man to say in a song this celebratory, and it is what gives the whole thing its warmth. He is not describing his own happiness so much as pointing at where it comes from.