Mashrou' Leila's video: Mashrou Leila - Cavalry English Version - Official Music Video

Mashrou Leila return to North America this fall with the Beirut School Tour. See them live in a city near you - for tour dates + Tickets: https://bnds.us/5np7gt sep 28 - Hanover NH / Spaulding Auditorium sep 30 - Cambridge MA / The Sinclair oct 03 - Los Angeles CA / Regent Theater oct 05 - San Francisco CA / The Regency Ballroom oct 07 - Toronto ON / The Danforth Music Hall oct 09 - Montreal QC / Club Soda oct 11 - Queens NY / Knockdown Center - GET LOST NYC oct 12 - Washington DC / 9.30 Club Stream and buy CAVALRY by Mashrou Leila: WORLD: http://hyperurl.co/MashrouLeila-Cavalry MENA: https://ffm.to/cavalryeng Buy The Beirut School LP: https://mashrouleila.tmstor.es Directed by Jessy Moussallem Cavalry is the lead single from The Beirut School, the new compilation celebrating ten years of trailblazing Lebanese indie band Mashrou’ Leila. The accompanying video is the band’s second collaboration with director Jessy Moussallem, following her award-winning film for Roman. The video revolves around the devastating cruelty and machismo of militarized oppression, which enters our homes, and plays out in our domestic life. Calling to mind Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager arrested outside her home for confronting Israeli soldiers, and thrown into the public gaze as an activist, the children in the film reflect Mashrou’ Leila’s own struggles with political power, having recently been banned from being with their audiences in Jordan and Egypt, and finding themselves at the center of yet another human rights polemic. The film reminds us perhaps of the energized idealism we had as youths coming into the world, and believing we could change it, before political fatigue left us jaded and defeated. The group sing here in English for the first time, and have never sounded as buoyant as on this dance-pop cut produced with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard. While the band has kept no secrets over the last two years about their plans to write in English in an effort to reach wider audiences in the west, their decision to address Israeli military brutality weeks after Eurovision is a very clear statement from the band: they can be just as defiant in any language. (please scroll down for lyrics) Music by Firas Abou Fakher, Ibrahim Badr, Carl Gerges, Hamed Sinno, Haig Papazian / Produced by Joe Goddard and Mashrou Leila / Lyrics by Hamed Sinno / Recorded at La Frette Studios, Paris / Additional Recordings with Joe Gaddard in Sounds and Sons, London / Mixed by Fadi Tabbal and Anthony Sahyoun at Tunefork Studios, Beirut/ Mastered by Matthias Heinstein Video Produced by: Wissam Smayra - Clandestino Marlene Jaber - Clandestino Olivier Muller - Phantasm Sorcha Shepherd - Caviar Jakob Preischl - BWGTBLD Hady Dahrouj - Mathematic Cinematography: Sofian El Fani Editing: Tianès Montasser Color Grading: Mathieu Caplanne Sound Engineer: Rawad Hobeika Production Manager: Marie-Lynn Nasrallah Stylist: Ola Achkar Art Director: Carlo Kassabian 1st Assistant Director: Amanda Kik Location Manager: Jad Nehmeh 1st Assistant Camera: Jonathan Saccal Casting: Ayman Hamawi Studio KGB Nicolas bourgeois BMM Studios Alexis Jung Joseph Petitpain Production coordinators: Leah Yared - Clandestino David Borens - Phantasm Editor assistant: Paul Julien Equipments: Gamma Engineering VFX Editors : Vincent Goy Cecile Crilout VFX Executive Producers : Guillaume Marien Hadi Dahrouge CAVALRY (English Version) - Lyrics Best stop brandishing that sword of yours Lest you fall right off of your throne If I fail, if I die I’ll come back every time Till I’ve seen you through Every head you cut turns into three I burst into armies of me You and your cavalry You got nothing on me Best you trust and believe You got nothing on me Push me off a cliff and watch me fly Then I strike a pose in the sky You can try but you’re losing Say goodbye - face the music You can’t keep us down Drop by drop the river melts away Every pillar standing in her way You and your cavalry You Got nothing on me- Best you trust and believe You got nothing on me Told you not to try me You got nothing on me You and your cavalry You got nothing on me Arabic outro: You have your values, and love is ours. You have your customs; We have our music. You have traditions; We own the future.