Oba Gana Mata Danena Hagum

The feelings I feel about you,
the sweet longings of love,
unable to tell you about them, I stay,
so I sing them to you in love, can you hear?

A night passes, conjuring beautiful dreams,
and you, too, sometimes dance in those dreams,
my loving heart, at times, burns with feeling,
until you come, with a smile, and soothe my heart

The feelings I feel about you

A flower gives its fragrance, and the bees gather around it,
a heart is tickled awake, it is you who gives such fragrance,
and so, to tell it, tender love-feelings gather in little bundles,
you are the spring, my love lodged in the heart

The feelings I feel about you

A sweet song about love too shy to be spoken, so it is sung instead. The feelings I feel about you, the sweet longings of love, he cannot tell her about them directly, so I sing them to you in love, can you hear? The song itself becomes the confession he cannot say aloud.

The middle lives in dreams and longing. A night passes, conjuring beautiful dreams, and you, too, sometimes dance in those dreams; his loving heart burns with feeling, until you come, with a smile, and soothe my heart. She is both the cause of the ache and its only relief.

The close blooms into an image of natural attraction. A flower gives its fragrance, and the bees gather round it, and it is she who gives that fragrance, tickling his heart awake. Tender love-feelings gather in little bundles, waiting to be told; and he names her plainly, you are the spring, my love lodged in the heart. Sung by Shirly Waijayantha, it is a gentle, hopeful song about carrying unspoken love and offering it up in a song, in the hope the beloved will hear.