Siyumali Lyrics

Closing those delicate eyes,
setting a smile upon the brow,
the tips of the toes grown weary,
coming to rest at last near an ending,
sighs tangling one into another,
the eyes turning talkative with love-tales

Untying that veil of mist,
placing you in a trance of love,
pausing across a whole samsara,
bathing in the newly cooled water,
holding you in the crook of my arm,
the hints of passion hidden in the eyes

Seating you on the silk bed,
hiding your face in the warmth of my chest,
smearing a dream along every strand of hair,
stringing kisses through the midnight,
the colour of two lips slowly moistened,
handing my secrets over to this dark night

A tender, sensual love song, all hushed intimacy and slow-motion closeness. It watches a lover fall into the arms of another: delicate eyes closing, a smile settling on the brow, weary feet coming to rest, sighs tangling together, and eyes that turn talkative with love-tales without a single word being spoken. Desire here is quiet and wordless.

The middle deepens it into something almost devotional. He unties the veil of mist, places her in a trance of love, and speaks of pausing across a whole samsara, the Buddhist cycle of countless lifetimes, as if this one embrace stretches across all of them. Holding her in the crook of his arm, he reads the hints of passion hidden in her eyes.

The last verse is the most intimate: seating her on the silk bed, hiding her face in the warmth of his chest, smearing a dream along every strand of her hair, stringing kisses through the midnight, and handing over all his secrets to the dark night that keeps them. Sung by Suraj Rathnayaka, composed by Tharindu Damsara to words by Ruhunuketha Dhammadewa Thero, it is a soft, poetic song about a night of closeness, tender rather than explicit, that treats one embrace as if it were worth a whole cycle of lifetimes.