Neela Nuwan Age Lyrics by Prasanga Thisera

Her blue eyes, like two glittering earrings
Her smiling face, like an evening sky
Her blue eyes, like two earrings
Her blue eyes, like two glittering earrings
Her smiling face, just like the evening sky……

Making her eyelids dance, closing those playful eyes,
giving me a loving heart, will you leave, after spinning seven dreams?……

Oh, you graceful beauty,
you silk-soft jewel of a girl who gathered songs and dreams,
the kisses we tasted, pressed to my two lips…..

Her blue eyes, like two glittering earrings
Her smiling face, just like the evening sky
Making her eyelids dance, closing those playful eyes,
giving me a loving heart, will you leave, after spinning seven dreams?……

You moon-flower that shone in the night,
my string of pearls that held the scent of flowers,
slipping onto my fond chest, my eyes drank in the love…..

Her blue eyes, like two glittering earrings
Her smiling face, just like the evening sky
Making her eyelids dance, closing those playful eyes,
giving me a loving heart, will you leave, after spinning seven dreams?……
Her blue eyes, like two glittering earrings
Her smiling face, just like the evening sky…….

A young man is caught up in the face of the girl he loves, and he can’t stop describing her eyes. They are blue, and to him they shine like two earrings catching the light. Her smiling face he compares to the evening sky, and that picture is the heart of the song. In Sinhala song dusk is the gentlest, most tender hour, the light soft and warm, the colour deep and calming, so saying her smile is like the evening means it does not dazzle him, it settles over him the way a quiet sunset settles over a village. Everything that follows comes from a man held by that one look.

From there he turns playful and a little anxious at once. He watches her flutter her eyelids and half-close her teasing eyes, the small flirtation of someone who knows she is being looked at, and in the same breath he asks the question the whole song hangs on, you have given me a loving heart and stirred up seven dreams in me, so are you really going to walk away now? “Seven dreams” is just the Sinhala way of saying countless hopes, a head full of plans for a life together, and the fear that all of it could vanish if she leaves.

The praise then climbs. He calls her a silk-soft jewel of a girl who gathered songs and dreams, and a moon-flower that shone in the night. The moon in Sinhala love poetry is the standing image for a serene, glowing beauty, a face you look up at, and pairing it with a flower adds softness and sweetness, so a “moon-flower” is a girl who is both radiant and delicate. He calls her his string of pearls that carried the scent of flowers, the kind of treasure you wear close to the heart, and he remembers her resting against his chest and the kisses they shared, his eyes drinking in the love the way you drink water when you are thirsty.

What stays with you is the mix of joy and worry running under all the beauty. He has tasted the closeness, the kisses, the dreams of a shared life, and that is exactly why the small fear keeps returning, will she stay or will she go. The song never answers it. It leaves him, and us, holding both the wonder of her blue eyes and the quiet ache of not knowing.