Obagen Wen Wee Yanna Hithai Lyrics by Shirly Waijayantha

I feel like leaving you,
and yet the heart is sad,
near you, my heart is so very naive,
that love of yours is my joy

The day we met, in the time before,
remember, when we were both young?,
the love I offered you,
may it be kept safe in the heart

I feel like leaving you

Let us meet again one day,
we wish that day would be tomorrow,
in a world that was built against us,
let us stay, always, in bound love

I feel like leaving you

A bittersweet love song caught between leaving and staying. I feel like leaving you, the singer admits, and yet the heart is sad, the wish to go and the grief of going arrive together. Near the beloved, the heart turns so very naive, childlike and defenceless, and that love, in the end, is his one joy. The whole song lives in that contradiction.

The middle reaches back to the beginning. Remember the day we met, when we were both young? The love he once offered, he asks, may it be kept safe in the heart, whatever happens between them now, let the early, tender feeling be preserved. Even while talking of parting, he is really pleading for the love not to be lost.

The close turns the parting into a hope of reunion. Let us meet again one day, he says, and we wish that day would be tomorrow; and against a world that was built against us, he asks that they stay always, in bound love. The refrain, I feel like leaving you, returns, but by now it sounds less like a threat and more like the ache of someone who cannot actually let go. Sung by Shirly Waijayantha, it is a tender, conflicted love song about wanting to leave and longing to stay, and hoping a love the world opposed can somehow last.