Bak Mee Male Lyrics
“Bak mee male bambarun nage” (බක් මී මලේ බඹරුන් නඟේ), Bak Mee Male (බක් මී මලේ) lyrics: a Sinhala love song sung by Victor Rathnayake, with words by Geethanath Kudaligama, presented here in Sinhala script, Singlish transliteration, English translation and the meaning explained and also listed under Nature. In Sinhala it is බක් මී මලේ ගී පද.
| SONG | Bak Mee Male |
|---|---|
| SINGER | Victor Rathnayake |
| LYRICIST | Geethanath Kudaligama |
| CATEGORY | Love Songs, Nature |
| VIEWS | 6 |
| UPDATED |
Bak Mee Male Lyrics Singlish
Bak mee male bambarun nage
Gayanaa geeye
Numbage mage pem kathandare
Nowedo lande asune
Numba roo asiriya dutu daa
Samanalayin nethu pisa daa
Mal gomuwak men sithalaa
Numba langa dawatee sitiyaa
Rankeeriya mal suwande
Muwa hasaralee mata suwa de
Sil gath sitha numba dakalaa
Piruwata unamin hitiyaaබක් මී මලේ ගී පද
බක් මී මලේ බඹරුන් නඟේ
ගයනා ගීයේ
නුඹගේ මගේ පෙම් කතන්දරේ
නොවෙදෝ ළඳේ ඇසුණේ
නුඹ රූ අසිරිය දුටු දා
සමනලයින් නෙතු පිස දා
මල් ගොමුවක් මෙන් සිතලා
නුඹ ළඟ දැවටී සිටියා
රංකීරිය මල් සුවඳේ
මුව හසරැළි මට සුව දේ
සිල් ගත් සිත නුඹ දැකලා
පිරුවට උනමින් හිටියාBak Mee Male Lyrics English Translation
On the bak-mee blossoms the bees rise up
in the song they are singing
our love story, yours and mine,
was it not heard there, my dear?
The day I saw the wonder of your beauty
as butterflies brushed past my eyes
thinking of you like a cluster of flowers
I stayed clinging close to you
In the fragrance of the ran-keeriya blooms
the ripples of your smile bring me comfort
my heart, which had taken its vows,
on seeing you, felt its robes slipping loose
English translation by the Lyrics LK editorial team and community contributors, many of them native Sinhala speakers. Translations are interpretive and may not capture every nuance of the original Sinhala. Anyone can register to submit a translation, suggest a correction to this one, or add a song that is missing.
Bak Mee Male Song Meaning and Interpretation
This is a love song steeped in the Sinhala month of Bak, April, the season of blossoming and the traditional New Year. The bak-mee tree is in flower, bees rise humming over the blooms, and the singer imagines that in their humming song even the bees are retelling “our love story.” From the first line, nature itself is a witness and a participant in the romance.
The middle verse remembers the moment he fell. On the day he first saw “the wonder of her beauty,” butterflies seemed to brush past his eyes, and he pictured her as a whole cluster of flowers, staying close, unable to pull away. It is the tender, slightly dizzy language of first attraction, everything around him turning soft and floral.
The last verse holds the song’s loveliest image. In the scent of the ran-keeriya blossoms, her smile ripples across her face and soothes him, and then he confesses the depth of his undoing: his was a heart that had “taken its vows,” a mind schooled in restraint, like one who has taken sil, the Buddhist precepts. Yet on seeing her, that discipline came loose, “its robes slipping,” the way a devotee’s white cloth slips from the shoulder. It is a gentle, respectful way of saying that even a heart trained to renounce desire could not hold out against her. What the listener is left with is the fragrance of an April romance, sweet, natural, and quietly overwhelming.
Meaning written by the Lyrics LK editorial team and community contributors. It reflects our reading of the song and may differ from the artist's intent. Anyone can register to submit their own meaning, suggest a correction to this one, or add a song that is missing.