Nekhser

A Moroccan-dialect song of regret in which one line is chanted until it becomes a spell: I never meant to lose your love. Without you, he says, I would not be myself, I would not be a lover. He did not know her except by hardship, tried everything in the neighbourhood and could not be patient. He is sorry that he walked away from her, and the song ends on the plain admission that it is hard to lose this love, hard for both of them.