Sihinayak Lyrics by Nadeeka Jayawardana

I spent the whole night awake, thinking of you, my heart half-mad with longing
My eyes stay open, waiting to see those blue eyes of yours
May our hearts come together to taste the sweetness of this beautiful love
May those hearts find peace in the warmth of our love

I still remember how we played together when we were little
I remember how we walked along the shore, along the riverbank
Now you have grown into a young woman, taking my hand this evening
to taste the sweetness of this beautiful love, on this lovely evening

I made a beautiful dream
I made a dream that circled around us
I made a dream where you are mine
my beloved //

I spent the whole night awake..

I made a beautiful dream///

It’s the middle of the night and a young man is still wide awake, his heart almost out of control, all because of the girl he loves. He can’t close his eyes; he keeps them open as if he might see her blue eyes appear in front of him at any moment. That sleepless, restless feeling is where the song begins, the kind of longing where being apart is its own quiet ache.

What gives this song its warmth is that the love is not new. He remembers the two of them as children, playing together, walking side by side along the beach and the riverbank. In Sinhala songs that picture of a shoreline and a riverbank from childhood stands for an innocence and closeness that goes back years, two people who grew up together and never quite let go. Now that little playmate has grown into a young woman, and this evening she slips her hand into his. The same gentle love from those childhood days is still there, only deeper, and he wants nothing more than for their hearts to come together and rest in the warmth of it.

Then comes the heart of the song, repeated like a soft confession. He says he built a dream, a beautiful one, a dream that wrapped itself around the two of them, a dream in which she finally belongs to him. He calls her priyadariye, “my dear, my beloved,” a tender word a man uses for the woman he holds closest. Whether she is truly his yet or only his in the dream is left a little open, and that is the lovely uncertainty of it.

What you are left holding is a calm, hopeful kind of love rather than a desperate one. There is no drama here, just a man who has carried this girl in his heart since they were small, lying awake at night and quietly building a future for the two of them in his imagination. It is the soft, unhurried longing of someone who already knows whom he wants to spend his life with.