Sitha Ridenne Lyrics by Shirly Waijayantha

The heart aches at your name,
why, I do not know, this much,
who is it that is with you now,
hidden away, hidden, in secret from me?

The heart aches at your name

Giving love with a single heart,
why did you leave me alone, like this?
do you know this warm tear,
day by day, I burn away

The heart aches at your name

Something the whole world knows,
that I alone don’t know, is a wonder,
the deluded heart, that much,
it only loved, and that is all

The heart aches at your name

A wounded heartbreak song circling a single ache, the heart aches at your name. The singer cannot understand why it hurts this much, and the suspicion surfaces: who is it that is with you now, hidden away, in secret from me? Betrayal is sensed but not confirmed, and that not-knowing is its own torment.

The middle is direct reproach. Giving love with a single heart, why did you leave me alone, like this? He asks whether she even knows about this warm tear, the grief that, day by day, I burn away. Wholehearted love repaid with abandonment.

The close lands the cruelest part, that everyone else can see what he cannot. Something the whole world knows, that I alone don’t know, is a wonder, he is the last to understand he has been left. And his only defence, gently self-forgiving: the deluded heart, that much, it only loved, and that is all. Sung by Shirly Waijayantha, it is a raw, aching song about a heart that hurts at a name, betrayed in secret, and a lover who was guilty of nothing but loving too completely.