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Book 07 · Dance Floor Heart

Badhak Dhahka

بضحك ضحكة

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

From the song

Badhak Dhahka بضحك ضحكة by SNX

The title means "I laugh a laugh." A song about laughing as a mask. The singer describes a laugh that comes from the inside and then puts a laugh in the place of anger; some laughs come for reasons, some come from fear, some from relief. He laughs so as not to cry, and so people will not ask him questions. The same words come again and again, but each time with a deeper feeling. The line that carries the song says that if he spent a single day without laughing, you would not know him, and that all the money and treasures of the world would not fix it. By the end the laugh is shown as a refuge that is also a wall.

Deeper meaning

The sister song to Hiding Pain with a Smile, in a club-pop dress and North African-leaning dialect. It is lighter in sound and harder in meaning.