Pipasaya Niwunada Lyrics
“Pipaasaya niwunaada” (පිපාසය නිවුනාද), Pipasaya Niwunada (පිපාසය නිවුනාද) lyrics: a Sinhala Christian devotional song sung by Rev Fr Shiran Chamaka, presented here in Sinhala script, Singlish transliteration, English translation and the meaning explained. Many know it simply as Pipaasaya niwunaada, and in Sinhala it is පිපාසය නිවුනාද ගී පද.
| SONG | Pipasaya Niwunada |
|---|---|
| SINGER | Rev Fr Shiran Chamaka |
| GENRE | Hymn |
| CATEGORY | Christian Devotional |
| VIEWS | 0 |
| UPDATED |
Pipasaya Niwunada Lyrics Singlish
Pipaasaya niwunaada
Sanaseema labunaada
Ahinsakayan maraa
Obe jaya labuwaada
Edaa Kalwaariye
Obe gathin galaa giye
Ape rudhirayayi - manu ape rudhirayayi
Adath obe sri sarirayen
Galanne e leyayi
Ape rudhirayayi - manu ape rudhirayayi
Uththaana unath api ayi marilaa
Uththaana unath api ayi marilaa
Pipaasaya niwunaada
Sanaseema labunaada
Ahinsakayan maraa
Obe jaya labuwaada
Illana deyak kiyanna
Jiwitha bili nogena
Mala kandan udin labana jaya
Jayak nowe shaapayak
Nathi une api apitamayi
Nathi une api apitamayi
Pipaasaya niwunaada
Sanaseema labunaada
Ahinsakayan maraa
Obe jaya labuwaadaපිපාසය නිවුනාද ගී පද
පිපාසය නිවුනාද
සැනසීම ලැබුණාද
අහිංසකයන් මරා
ඔබේ ජය ලැබුවාද
එදා කල්වාරියේ
ඔබේ ගතින් ගලා ගියේ
අපේ රුධිරයයි-මනු අපේ රුධිරයයි
අදත් ඔබේ ශ්‍රී සරිරයෙන්
ගලන්නේ ඒ ලෙයයි
අපේ රුධිරයයි-මනු අපේ රුධිරයයි
උත්ථාන උනත් අපි ඇයි මැරිලා
උත්ථාන උනත් අපි ඇයි මැරිලා
උත්ථාන උනත් අපි ඇයි මැරිලා
උත්ථාන උනත් අපි ඇයි මැරිලා
පිපාසය නිවුනාද
සැනසීම ලැබුණාද
අහිංසකයන් මරා
ඔබේ ජය ලැබුවාද
ඉල්ලන දෙයක් කියන්න
ජිවිත බිලි නොගෙන
මල කඳන් උඩින් ලබන ජය
ජයක් නොවේ ශාපයක්
නැති උනේ අපි අපිටමයි
නැති උනේ අපි අපිටමයි
නැති උනේ අපි අපිටමයි
නැති උනේ අපි අපිටමයි
පිපාසය නිවුනාද
සැනසීම ලැබුණාද
අහිංසකයන් මරා
ඔබේ ජය ලැබුවාදPipasaya Niwunada Lyrics English Translation
Was your thirst ever quenched?
Did you ever find your peace?
By slaughtering the innocent,
did you win your victory?
That day at Calvary,
what flowed from your body
was our blood, mankind, it was our blood
and even today, from your sacred body,
the blood that flows is that same blood
our blood, mankind, it was our blood
though he rose again, why are we still dead?
though he rose again, why are we still dead?
Was your thirst ever quenched?
Did you ever find your peace?
By slaughtering the innocent,
did you win your victory?
Say the thing you want to say,
without taking lives as the price
a victory won atop a heap of corpses
is no victory, it is a curse
the ones we destroyed were only ourselves
the ones we destroyed were only ourselves
Was your thirst ever quenched?
Did you ever find your peace?
By slaughtering the innocent,
did you win your victory?
English translation by the Lyrics LK editorial team and community contributors, many of them native Sinhala speakers. Translations are interpretive and may not capture every nuance of the original Sinhala. Anyone can register to submit a translation, suggest a correction to this one, or add a song that is missing.
Pipasaya Niwunada Song Meaning and Interpretation
This is a prophetic, anti-violence hymn, and it is one of the most searching songs in the collection. Rather than simply praising God, it turns to confront humanity, and its refrain is a set of piercing questions aimed at everyone who has ever justified killing: “Was your thirst ever quenched? Did you find your peace? By slaughtering the innocent, did you win your victory?” The questions expect the answer “no.”
Its central image ties every act of violence back to the crucifixion. At Calvary, the song says, “what flowed from your body was our blood, mankind,” identifying Christ, the innocent one killed, with all the innocent who are killed. And it insists this is not ancient history, “even today, from your sacred body, the blood that flows is that same blood.” Then comes the haunting line that exposes the futility of it all: “though he rose again, why are we still dead?” The resurrection offered life, yet humanity keeps choosing death.
The final verse states the moral plainly. “Say the thing you want to say, without taking lives as the price,” and “a victory won atop a heap of corpses is no victory, it is a curse.” The last line is the deepest wound of all: “the ones we destroyed were only ourselves.” What the listener is left with is not comfort but conviction, a hymn that reads the cross as God’s verdict against all killing, and calls a violent world to see that in murdering the innocent it only crucifies Christ, and itself, again.
Meaning written by the Lyrics LK editorial team and community contributors. It reflects our reading of the song and may differ from the artist's intent. Anyone can register to submit their own meaning, suggest a correction to this one, or add a song that is missing.