Heena Purogena Lyrics by Roshan Fernando

Filling my eyes with dreams, you came,
oh, I truly felt it…
close before my eyes, my whole life came to meet me,
with every breath…
a warm, tender feeling of love,
I received it from you…
drop by drop of blood,
I received a love…
filling my eyes with dreams, you came,
oh, I truly felt it…

A secret I have told no one,
I feel it with my eyes closed…
to the very image my heart was drawn to,
you fitted perfectly…
soothing me, with every word,
I received a whole life…
your heart is not cold at all,
even when the dew-flower rain falls…
filling my eyes with dreams, you came,
oh, I truly felt it…

Even this distance, I feel,
has become an aeon…
reading my whole heart
with even a single breath…
the last breath in this chest,
it is you who holds it back…
a love greater than I wished or imagined,
I received…

Filling my eyes with dreams, you came,
oh, I truly felt it…
close before my eyes, my whole life came to meet me,
with every breath…
a warm, tender feeling of love,
I received it from you…
drop by drop of blood,
I received a love…
filling my eyes with dreams, you came,
oh, I truly felt it…

A warm, grateful love song about receiving a love far greater than one ever hoped for. Filling my eyes with dreams, you came, the singer says, and I truly felt it; close before his eyes his whole life seemed to come to meet him, breath by breath. The love he received is measured in the most intimate terms, a warmth taken in drop by drop of blood, love felt in the body itself.

The middle is quiet devotion. He carries a secret told to no one, felt only with eyes closed: the beloved fitted perfectly the very image his heart had always been drawn to. Soothed by her every word, he says, I received a whole life, and reassures himself that her heart is not cold, even when the dew-flower rain falls, even in hard, chilly times.

The last verse lifts the feeling toward the eternal. Even the distance between them, he says, has stretched into an aeon, kalpaya, yet she can read his whole heart in a single breath, and it is she who holds back the very last breath in his chest, she who keeps him alive. A love greater than I ever wished or imagined, I received, he marvels. Sung by Roshan Fernando to words by Vimalaka Muhandiram, it is a tender song of gratitude for a love that arrived unlooked-for and became the thing the singer lives by.