Raye Sanda Se Lyrics by Shirly Waijayantha

Come glowing like the night moon
in your own coolness
these wishes fill my heart and I cannot hide them
can you come to me, wrapped in love?

Tonight, as the moon rises
my heart drifts to the far-off place where you are

I am singing my song
are you listening to it?
my thoughts drift away
Come glowing like the night moon
in your own coolness
these wishes fill my heart and I cannot hide them
can you come to me, wrapped in love?

Holding tenderness together with me
for love of you my heart and mind are bound
I am singing my song
are you listening, lending your ear?

Come glowing like the night moon
in your own coolness
these wishes fill my heart and I cannot hide them
can you come to me, wrapped in love?

This is a song of longing sent out into the night. The singer asks his beloved to “come glowing like the night moon,” bringing her own coolness, sihila, the gentle, soothing calm the moon casts after a hot day. His heart is so full of wishes he can no longer hide them, and the whole song is really one tender question repeated: can you come to me, wrapped in love?

The setting is pure moonlit yearning. As the moon rises tonight, his heart “drifts to the far-off place where you are.” She is somewhere distant, and all he has to close the gap is his song. So he keeps asking the ache of every separated lover, “I am singing my song, are you listening?” It is as if he hopes the melody itself will travel the distance and reach her ear.

The last verses turn the longing into devotion. His tenderness and hers are held together, and for love of her his “heart and mind are bound,” completely committed even across the distance. What the listener is left with is the soft, hopeful loneliness of a moonlit night, a man singing into the dark toward someone far away, wishing she would appear like the moon and answer his call with love.