Assouf
Tinariwen Lyrics
NAKID MAHEDJAK YA ASSOUF ERHLALAN
What can I do with this eternal longing
IHANIMANIN DOULHIN ERAKHAN
Which inhabits my soul and my heart in flames
KIK IMIDIWAN INDEK ISSANAN
My friends, who can know
What can cool a heart that burns
ATHASSAN ADOUNIA NASSADHAN ITRAN
The world sleeps and I count the stars
SADHANAKHAN SAWADHAKN YOULHIN ERKHAN
I count them and I stoke my burning heart
DIHADH TATHAS ADOUNIA INSAN
When everything lies down and sleeps
AHIDITIS ASSOUF SIMAN IKNAN
And suffuses my heart and my soul
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Assouf is a particularly hard word to translate. It can mean "loneliness", "longing" or "nostalgia", but also a specific feeling or mood associated with vast uninhabited spaces where spirits dwell. And with exile too. A Touareg once summed up "assouf" as meaning everything which lies out there in the darkness, beyond the warmth of campfire. This is a song written by Ibrahim in the 1980s expressing the longing and homesickness of exile.
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