Malaikku Mela Son Lyrics Translation | Paranthu Po | Santhosh Dhayanithi
Santhosh Dhayanithi’s “Malaikku Mela Son,” from the album Paranthu Po, features lyrics by Madhan Karky. The song opens with a simple rhyme placing the son above a mountain and his parents below. This opening concludes by describing the parents as ‘dummy,’ or puppets.
Malaikku Mela Son
Santhosh Dhayanithi • From “Paranthu Po”
Lyricist
Madhan Karky
Composer
Santhosh Dhayanithi
Paranthu Po’s Malaikku Mela Son Lyrics Translation
The verses question the cause of the family’s difficult journey, asking “whose deed is this?” The song’s refrain answers this is “the deed of love.” A subsequent line states a love which knows how to climb cannot descend, suggesting the commitment is irreversible.
Malaikku Mela SonThe son is above the mountain
Malaikku Kela DaddyDaddy is below the mountain
Daddy Kooda MummyMummy is with Daddy
Rendu Perum DummyBoth of them are puppets
Yera Therinja AnbukkuA love that knows how to climb
Eranga TheriyadheDoesn’t know how to come down
Appa Amma Kastam EllamAll the struggles of a mother and father
Malaikku PuriyadheThe mountain doesn’t understand
Innum Ethana KallooHow many more stones
Innum Ethana PullooHow many more blades of grass
Padhai Illa Malaiyil InnumOn this pathless mountain, still
Ethana MullooHow many more thorns
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Anbu Senja VelaThis is the deed of love
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Anbu Senja VelaThis is the deed of love
Dhooram KuraiyumaWill the distance lessen
Baram KaraiyumaWill the burden dissolve
Yeri Yeri Yeri YeriBy climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and climbing
Pavam MaraiyumaWill our sins fade away
Malaikku Mela SonThe son is above the mountain
Malaikku Kela DaddyDaddy is below the mountain
Daddy Kooda MummyMummy is with Daddy
Rendu Perum DummyBoth of them are puppets
Yera Therinja AnbukkuA love that knows how to climb
Eranga TheriyadheDoesn’t know how to come down
Appa Amma Kastam EllamAll the struggles of a mother and father
Malaikku PuriyadheThe mountain doesn’t understand
Innum Ethana KallooHow many more stones
Innum Ethana PullooHow many more blades of grass
Padhai Illa Malaiyil InnumOn this pathless mountain, still
Ethana MullooHow many more thorns
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Anbu Senja VelaThis is the deed of love
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Yaru Senja VelaWhose deed is this
Idhu Anbu Senja VelaThis is the deed of love
Dhooram KuraiyumaWill the distance lessen
Baram KaraiyumaWill the burden dissolve
Yeri Yeri Yeri YeriBy climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and climbing
The track builds through repetition of the central question and its corresponding answer. This refrain appears between restatements of the opening verse. The structure ties the parents’ powerlessness directly to the force of their love.
