Wala Theerayen Eha Lyrics by T.M. Jayarathne

Beyond the line of clouds,
somewhere there is a world.
Bees of longing drift toward it in search,
a world all our own,
a world all our own. //

Drift in like a wave,
don’t break, hold steady in your heart.
Rise like a spring season
and come into this life.

Beyond the line of clouds… /

On a cool, soothing, sighing breeze,
like a drifting wisp of wind,
carry new hopes and come,
through the gate of a garden of love.

Beyond the line of clouds… /

This is a song of hope, an invitation to keep dreaming of a better life together. The voice is reaching toward a future just out of sight, somewhere beyond the clouds, and asking someone, a partner or a companion in the dream, to come along and not give up. It carries the warmth of two people building something of their own.

The picture it opens with is simple and lovely. Past the long band of clouds on the horizon there is a world waiting, a world that belongs to just the two of them. The longing itself is drawn as little bees, “paetum bingun,” wishes that drift through the air the way bees follow a scent toward a flower. In Sinhala song the bee is the familiar image of desire that cannot help moving toward what it wants, so here it means hopes that pull steadily, on their own, toward that dream.

From there the song keeps urging that hope to arrive. Come in like a wave, it says, but don’t break the way a wave breaks on the shore, keep your heart whole and steady. Rise into this life like the spring, “vasanthaya,” the season of new growth and fresh beginnings, the time when everything blooms again. In the last verse the breeze does the carrying. On a cool, sighing wind, light as a passing wisp of air, let new hopes be brought in through the gate of a garden of love. The garden, “pem uyana,” stands for the shared life the two of them are tending, and the gentle breeze is how good things are meant to come to it, softly and without force.

What the listener is left holding is a quiet, steady hope. Nothing here is desperate or aching. It is the feeling of looking at the horizon with someone beside you and believing the world you want is real, just beyond the clouds, and that if you both hold steady it will come.