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Book 09 · Quiet Hours

Ya Halim

يا حليم

CalmLonging

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

From the song

Ya Halim يا حليم by SNX

The title plays on "Halim," a name and an echo of "dream" (helm). It opens with a welcome in formal Arabic: here we are, we have come back from far away. Then a dreamy refrain of the name, summer days in the middle of January, and a wish to live in luxury. It is hard, he says, to get what you cannot have, but God gave me what I need. The song ends on a rising call to the dreamer to get up.

Deeper meaning

Contentment against longing: the speaker wants more, accepts what he has, and dreams of a warm day in the dead of winter as the image of both. A light, meditative track.