Sudu Meeduma Lyrics by Rookantha GunathilakaSanuka Wickramasinghe

In the cradle where the white mist blooms,
in the tender moment the moon rises,
let us float away, far, far off,
and our hearts find their peace
we are seeking the treasures of love,
gathering flavour upon flavour of its sweetness,
she sways her body like a swan-vine,
and our hearts find their peace

My girl, the waves of the breeze wound through your hair,
and as love overflows, the corners of your eyes turn red

A dreamy, sensuous love duet by Rookantha Goonatillake and Sanuka, set in a soft, misty landscape. In a cradle where the white mist blooms, in the tender moment the moon rises, the lovers wish to float away far, far off, and there their hearts find peace. The whole song lives in that gauzy, drifting mood, love as a place you dissolve into.

The middle names what they are after: the treasures of love, gathered as flavour upon flavour of sweetness. The beloved sways her body like a swan-vine, hansa lathaawa, an old Sinhala image blending the grace of a swan with the supple sway of a creeper, and again the refrain returns, our hearts find their peace. It is desire rendered as gentleness and calm rather than urgency.

The closing couplet is intimate and lovely: waves of breeze wind through her hair, and as love overflows, the very corners of her eyes turn red, flushed with feeling. Sung together by two beloved voices, it is a tender, atmospheric celebration of two people drifting into love, soothed and quieted by each other.