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Book 08 · The Ache of Distance

Azim

عظيم

Longing

Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.

From the song

Azim عظيم by SNX

A bilingual song about a love that cannot continue. The Arabic opening is a loop of reassurance: it is a great and wonderful feeling, and even if it is only wonderful, it is because you truly love them. In the English lines he says that she could talk to him, but he will not tell her a single thing, that he could have stayed for the rest of his life but now he will not see her again. A Moroccan verse says that if he passed through the alley and lacked something, she would know it. In his heart is a sadness he has not spoken, but in his head there is a voice that speaks. He found his voice somewhere else, small like a dream. The final lines say she made up her mind, she was lost in time, and he got his words wrong but was right.

Deeper meaning

The title means "great" or "wonderful", and the song uses it as the opening to a goodbye, so the praise turns to a kind of farewell. The idea of the unspoken sadness and the voice in his head is the true centre: the song is about all the things he did not say.