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Book 08 · The Ache of Distance

Hasabti

حسبتي

Longing

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

From the song

Hasabti حسبتي by SNX

A Moroccan-dialect song whose hook is "you thought". Someone listens and says, stop thinking, everything passes and changes. He comes and goes with pride and seems to forget, yet he is always circling like a dove. The clouds cry and the rain falls while the two of them hold on to each other, waiting for the storm to stop. They move on, step by step, and he is with her wherever she goes. The second half is the reproach in the title: you did not think I could feel it, you did not think I understood. The world turns, and what slipped by you will pass again. She says she felt his hand around her and that no one thought she would notice.

Deeper meaning

The title is a verb meaning "you counted" or "you assumed", and the song is about being underestimated by someone close. The rain and the dove are the stock images of a couple waiting out an argument. The refrain that the world goes around suggests patience rather than anger.