{"id":48904,"date":"2016-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/48904\/sabah-has-an-english-song-and-its-the-best-song-in-the-world"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:10:03","slug":"sabah-has-an-english-song-and-its-the-best-song-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/48904\/sabah-has-an-english-song-and-its-the-best-song-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabah Has An English Song And It&#8217;s The Best Song In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>I went down a YouTube spiral recently and discovered what I believe is the best song that\u2019s ever been made. <\/big><\/p> <p>In 1968, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/693957\/from-the-archives-14-rare-photos-of-the-iconic-sabah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Sabah<\/a> performed an English\/Arabic dance track called <b>Maximum You Can Touch Me<\/b> in the film <i>A Man in Tehran<\/i>.<\/p> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p>I cannot even begin to describe this song. The lyrics are perfect, the tune is catchy, and it serves as an amazing template for a break-up text or a text to confirm that you\u2019re only interested in hooking up.<\/p>   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/flDreSTJfUI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>   <p>Here are the lyrics:<\/p> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p><i>Maximum you can touch me, maximum you can squeeze me, maximum you can kiss me but love you no<\/i><\/p> <p>Maximum you can dance with me, maximum you can chat with me, maximum you can touch me but love you no<\/p> <p>My heart is big and it needs a big love, but you&#8217;re only worth dancing with me and taking me out<\/p> <p>I might sit next to you, hear your heartbeats and you&#8217;ll ask me if I love and I&#8217;ll say no<\/p> <p>You might hold my hand, go crazy while we try a new dance, get lost in a far away world, but love you no<\/p> <p>She\u2019s basically saying, hey we can mess around but that\u2019s it so back off.<\/p> <p>I\u2019ve already quoted it to a billion people. 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