Udaya Lyrics (උදය) by Udaya Sri Wickramasinghe

If you would stay this close a moment longer,
I would open the bolts of my heart and tell you, in secret,
how you took my love, beyond all believing,
how much you coloured my loneliness-filled heart

My heart, that had stopped between the pages of a book, smiles again,
the hand unused to writing love-letters still trembles,
o golden-hearted one who taught me to smile,
will you give me that love, then, forever?

The beautiful dream of an aeon’s wish has come true,
you, who stopped beside my world, have become my whole life,
o golden-hearted one who taught me to smile,
will you give me that love, then, forever?

A warm, grateful love song about being gently brought back to life by someone’s love. If she would only stay close a moment longer, the singer says, he would open the bolts of my heart and confess, in secret, how she took his love beyond all believing, and how completely she coloured my loneliness-filled heart. Her love has flooded colour into an empty life.

The middle is quiet renewal. My heart, that had stopped between the pages of a book, smiles again, a heart shut like a closed book has reopened, and even the hand unused to writing love-letters still trembles, moved and nervous at once. He calls her golden-hearted one who taught me to smile, and asks the song’s recurring question: will you give me that love forever?

The close names the scale of his gratitude. The beautiful dream of an aeon’s wish has come true, the reward of countless lifetimes’ longing, and she, who stopped beside my world, has become my whole life. The tender question returns once more, hopeful and unsure at the same time. Written and sung by Udaya Shree, it is a heartfelt, grateful love song about a lonely heart reopened by love, asking only that the love last forever.