Hbali
هبالي
Poems inspired by SNX's songs, retold by AIA Labs.
From the song
Hbali هبالي by SNX
A playful Levantine standoff over a party beat. Without you I became like the crazy ones, says the singer, and you want me to stay sane without you? A friend is quoted asking how to keep his head, and the answer is a dare: show me your mind. The singer says he picked up his reason and threw it away. The chorus keeps repeating that act of tossing sense aside, like a stamp. A middle passage lists things that have lost their place in the night, the star that has left the sky, the pen that has run dry, the tear with nowhere to go, and ends back at the same craziness.
Deeper meaning
Love-madness as a dance floor joke. The title is the singer's word for his own foolishness, and the song turns it into pride: sanity was the thing he lost on purpose. Under the humour is the old idea that being apart from the one you love is what drives you out of your mind.
Book 07 · Dance Floor Heart