♫ Tanglish lyrics	↻ English translation
Male
Un azhagai paada sonnaal	If asked to sing of your beauty,
Malaiyum nadhiyum paadaathaa	Won't the mountains and rivers sing?
Un perai ezhutha sonnaal	If asked to write your name,
Megam nilavil ezhuthaathaa	Won't the clouds write it on the moon?
Male
Magavari kettu dhinam vaanavil varumae	Every day the rainbow comes asking for your address,
Un malaradi nanaikka ingu kaveri varumae	The river Kaveri comes here to wash your flower-like feet.
Oru thadavai unthan perai ull vaanginaen	Once I absorbed your name within me,
Uyirukkul uyiraai unnai uruvaakkinaen	I created you as the life within my life.
Male
Un azhagai paada sonnaal	If asked to sing of your beauty,
Malaiyum nadhiyum paadaathaa	Won't the mountains and rivers sing?
Un perai ezhutha sonnaal	If asked to write your name,
Megam nilavil ezhuthaathaa	Won't the clouds write it on the moon?
Male
Kannukkul machchangal kanakeduppil thavariyathu	The moles inside the eyes were missed during the census,
Pani kooda un sirippai padam pidiththu kaattiyathu	Even the morning dew captured and displayed your smile.
Female :Naanthaan un thalaiyanaial ennodu thoongaathu	Female: If I become your pillow, it won't sleep with me,
Kadhalin thalaivaligal kann pola thoongaathu	The headaches of love will not sleep like an open eye.
Male
Siththanna vaanil en mugam paarththu	Looking at my face in the skies of Sittannavasal,
Anbae paadhi iraviil vaerththaen	My love, I broke into a sweat in the middle of the night.
Male :Mookkodu mookku modhum mogam idhu	Male: This is a passion where nose touches nose,
Kannodu kann kalakkum kadhal idhu	This is love where eye merges with eye.
Male
Un azhagai paada sonnaal	If asked to sing of your beauty,
Malaiyum nadhiyum paadaathaa	Won't the mountains and rivers sing?
Un perai ezhutha sonnaal	If asked to write your name,
Megam nilavil ezhuthaathaa	Won't the clouds write it on the moon?
Female
Neeril vizhum sooriyanai	The sun falling into the water,
Kadhal kaiyil alli varum	Love will scoop up with its hands.
Pani thuliyil ulaaththaiyae	A stroll inside a dewdrop,
Kadhal pookka seithu vidum	Love will make it blossom.
Male
Bhoomiyenum poopariththu	Plucking the Earth like a flower,
Kadhal solli pulli vaippom	We will declare our love and place a full stop.
Uyirai mattum vaaganamaai	Making only our life energy the vehicle,
Kadhalukku anuppiduvom	We shall send it for love.
Female
Vinmeenai minnal valiyil	In the path of lightning,
Alli vanthu tharuvaen	I will gather stars and give them to you.
En nenjil unnai thaangi	Carrying you in my heart,
Yaezhu jenmam varuvaen	I will come across seven lifetimes.
Male
Pooththu kidakkira pani malai alli	Scooping up the blooming snow-covered mountain,
Seithaen unakkoru kadhal palli	I made a temple of love for you.
Female :Mookkodu mookku modhum mogam idhu	Female: This is a passion where nose touches nose,
Kannodu kann kalakkum kadhal idhu	This is love where eye merges with eye.
Male
Un azhagai paada sonnaal	If asked to sing of your beauty,
Malaiyum nadhiyum paadaathaa	Won't the mountains and rivers sing?
Un perai ezhutha sonnaal	If asked to write your name,
Megam nilavil ezhuthaathaa	Won't the clouds write it on the moon?
Male
Magavari kettu dhinam vaanavil varumae	Every day the rainbow comes asking for your address,
Un malaradi nanaikka ingu kaveri varumae	The river Kaveri comes here to wash your flower-like feet.
Female :Oru thadavai unthan perai ull vaanginaen	Female: Once I absorbed your name within me,
Uyirukkul uyiraai unnai uruvaakkinaen	I created you as the life within my life.

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Song interpretation

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Personification (Uruvagarnam / Makkalukkuuriyadhai iyarkaikku atruthal)

Metaphor (Uvamai / Urubagam)

Hyperbole (Uyarvu Navortchi)

Emoni / Rhyme (Monai and Ethirai)

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