Nisala Wela Imu Lyrics by Shirly Waijayantha

Let us grow still, though the heart is stirred,
let us stay silent now,
we may not be able to hide from the world
with these feelings of love of ours

Bearing it in our hearts across samsara,
how much longer am I to bear it?
again growing silent, keeping the muteness,
pictures of a love-dream in a world

Let us grow still, though the heart is stirred

Bearing it in our hearts across samsara

Let us grow still, though the heart is stirred

A hushed, restrained song about a love that must be kept quiet. Let us grow still, though the heart is stirred, the singer urges, let us stay silent now. The reason is quietly anxious: we may not be able to hide from the world with these feelings of love of ours. The love is real but must not show.

The middle carries the weariness of that concealment across lifetimes. Bearing it in our hearts across samsara, the endless cycle of births, he asks, how much longer am I to bear it? And still the answer is the same, again growing silent, keeping the muteness, holding the love only as pictures of a love-dream in a world.

The song simply circles its two refrains, stay still though the heart is stirred, and bear it in the heart across samsara, the repetition itself enacting the endless, patient silence it describes. Sung by Shirly Waijayantha, it is a quiet, aching song about a love kept deliberately hidden, held in muteness across a whole cycle of lifetimes.