Sa Ahlomu - سأحلُم

Song Meaning

The narrator declares, "I will dream," not to fix the winds or mend a wounded soul. The lyrics suggest that the weight of established narratives and the unchangeable past are too immense for mere poetry to alter. An earthquake cannot be stopped by a verse, and the "legend has taken its cunning place" within reality, beyond the poem's reach. Yet, the dream persists, driven by a yearning for belonging and expansion. The narrator hopes for a land that can accommodate them, to be "one of the people of this sea." This is a desire to shed the burden of existential questioning, to abandon the difficult inquiry of "Who am I?" in favor of a simpler, more grounded identity: "Here, I am my mother's son." The lyrics then pivot to a powerful assertion of self-acceptance and freedom from external judgment. "Doubts do not trouble me," and "shepherds nor kings" can corner the narrator. This internal liberation is further illustrated by the simple act of recording observations in a "little notebook" – a bird scratching a cloud becomes a prompt to note how "the dream freed my wings." This act of documentation transforms the narrator's own experience into a flight, recognizing that "every living thing is a bird," and in this realization, they are simply and fully themselves.