Adare Gana

I love the evening you are in,
waking my eyes for just a moment,
alone, deep within your heart,
a valley where little sighs rise,
it cools the fever of summer,
I love the evening you are in

At the hour the lily flowers smile,
spring blooms into full colour,
the taste of a kiss at the edge of two lips
cools the summer,
cools the fever,
and you, too, are silent

In the dusk where free verses,
written about love by the Rhine’s banks, are heard,
smiling out from among the distant mountains,
you, too, are silent,
I, too, am silent,
and the world, too, is still

A hushed, atmospheric love song that is really about stillness, the quiet that settles when two people are simply together. The singer says he loves the evening you are in, and describes being alone deep inside her heart, a valley where little sighs rise, a place so peaceful it cools the fever of summer. Love here is not a fire but relief from one.

The imagery is all soft and seasonal: lily flowers smiling, spring blooming into full colour, and the taste of a kiss at the edge of two lips that once again cools the summer heat. And each verse settles onto the same note, and you, too, are silent, a closeness so complete that words become unnecessary.

The close widens out beautifully. In the dusk, free verses about love, written by the Rhine’s banks, seem to drift on the air, and something smiles out from among the distant mountains. Then the three quiet lines that are the heart of the song: you, too, are silent, I, too, am silent, and the world, too, is still. Sung by Tharindu Damsara to words by Sahampathi Weerasuriya, it is a serene, painterly love song about the perfect, wordless calm of an evening spent with the one you love.