Sanda Sinasei Lyrics by Rivindu Yaddehige

Across the night sky,
it draws patterns of stars,
casting moonbeams,
the moon eases its weariness,
filling the blue eyes,
eye-light meets it,
and it paints patterns of love
upon the dark cloud

On a bed strewn with soft flower petals,
lying entwined, hand in hand,
whispering secrets in soft murmurs,
hearing the sound of a sweet love-song,
the moon smiles, the moon smiles

In a lonely desert, in solitude,
blurred by a tear at the corner of the eye,
a scattered love-dream, sighing,
hearing the sound of a song of parting,
the moon smiles, the moon smiles

A lyrical song that makes the moon a witness to love, in both its joy and its sorrow. It opens with the moon at work across the night sky, drawing patterns of stars, casting its beams, easing its weariness, and painting patterns of love upon the dark cloud. The whole heavens are set up as a canvas for feeling.

The second verse is love at its happiest. On a bed strewn with soft flower petals, two lovers lie entwined, hand in hand, whispering secrets in soft murmurs, and hearing a sweet love-song. And the refrain: the moon smiles, the moon smiles, watching over their happiness with quiet approval.

The third verse turns the same refrain to grief. Now the scene is a lonely desert, a solitary figure, eyes blurred by a tear, a scattered love-dream and a song of parting. And still, the moon smiles, the moon smiles. The unchanged refrain is the ache of the song: the moon looks down the same way on love and on heartbreak, indifferent, or perhaps simply eternal, while below, everything has changed. Sung by Rivindu Yaddehige to words by Sasandara Sepali Dissanayake, composed by Tharindu Damsara, it is a delicate song about the moon smiling over both a night of love and a night of loss, unchanged in the sky while all is different on the earth.