Badhak Dhahka
بضحك ضحكة
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.
Book 07 · Dance Floor Heart