Ba Khud Guftam Pas Az Chande

I Told Myself After a While stages a private conversation — the speaker addressing themselves, working through what love has meant and where it has left them. The phrase 'pas az chande' (after a while) gives it a retrospective quality: this is not the first flush of feeling but reflection after the fact, the consciousness that has had time to sit with what happened.

Zahir's recording does not oversell the interiority. The arrangement creates space for the words to do their work without emotional amplification — a relatively spare setting that trusts the lyric. The result is one of his more meditative recordings, a song that asks to be listened to quietly.