Haleem

A song in three languages and moods. It opens with a welcome in a ceremonial voice, English in origin, saying we have come a long way and now we are back. Then the name is called, over and over, Haleem and Haleema. A verse imagines summer days in the middle of January and a wish to live like a monk. It admits that what cannot be had is hard to bear, but that God has given him what he needs. He asks Haleema to be kind to him. In the last section the voice switches to Maghrebi Arabic. He calls her his gazelle and asks how he can love her when she has kept him busy. He stayed patient for a long time, and she left him in torment. He asks to be left alone.