Majnoon
مجنون
Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.
From the song
Majnoon مجنون by SNX
An Egyptian song with a comic edge about a bad choice. I have many options, he says, but unfortunately only one, and I have to choose between my girlfriend and my dignity. She wants us to be friends, and we are friends. You know very well that I love you, I kept telling her, and then I suddenly found myself going crazy. So let me pretend to be angry, and sing with a heart full of resentment about my girlfriend.
Deeper meaning
It is a song about pride in a relationship and the clumsy ways a man covers a hurt. Calling it madness is a way to avoid calling it hurt. The performance of anger in the chorus is the real answer: he would rather sing a grudge than say what he feels.
Book 10 · Fire and Fury