This is the 2nd video of our Let's Talk Straight social project, and the 1st since branding ourselves as DUGRI. We use music and education to give a voice to our young moderate communities.
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Credits
Writing, Composing – Uriya Rosenman and @ELSaz1 Sameh Zakout
Music Production & Arrangement, Composing, Mixing, Mastering – @patricksebag
Directing & Editing – Anan Ksym @MazajProductions
Cinematography – Rafic Saadeh
Production Assistant and Props design – Sami Saadeh
Make-up Artist – Dorit Cohen
Artistic Advisory & Inspiration – Patrick Sebag, @shaananstreett, David Dallal, Lucas Chauvet
Clothing – 'Hakol Dvash' Studio
Special Thanks – David Blumenfeld, Libby Lenkinski
This project was supported by the New Israel Fund (NIF)
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English translation
We are not evil nor stupid
We have a life, and we love to live
Love the family, love the spring
Love the sea, love to live in peace
Stuck in between worlds
Between integration and resistance
Between Ramle and Gaza
Our lives are complicated
We don't have an airway (we can’t breathe)
My voice is silent, I want to scream out loud
Let me be and build myself like my cousin
To taste life and smell my land
To see a garden and not my neighbor’s ruined house
Like that, straight to the face – This is the way
Enough years have passed – Not waiting one minute
It comes from within me – We want brave voices
I can’t breathe
I know what you’re thinking
Another Ashkenazi kissing Arab ass,
But I served in combat, and I contributed to my country
And around me – nothing has changed
Hourly news reports build a narrative
Songs and ceremonies designed to cause pain
An entire nation with PTSD
Where is the Jewish Nation heading to?
Leaders screaming out loud
I feel suffocated
And every moderate voice is silenced
I can’t breathe
Let's tear the webs of hypocrisy
Come on friends
Think outside the box
I can’t breathe
We’re the young generation that pays the price
Of racism and corruption and the hard-headedness
So we party in the city, and make a reasonable living
But reality is suffocating, we can’t breathe
Even if we record, on beat, a hit with a catchy message
Nothing will move until we make it clear to those who decide
That we had enough of this sh*t, build a plan already
And that there must be peace in every scenario
(And what about Arabic?)
You made us live in illusions, talk and more talk
In practice - zero, not even one meter, but "all is well", not really
Those I considered friends stabbed me in the back, and cursed me
I heard enough idle talk, that’s it, leave me alone
I wasted years, didn’t know what keeps my heart busy
I was reckless, and I only blame myself
I refuelled, I became stubborn
Continue forward on my own, even if the whole world is dark
I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe
I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe
Like that, straight to the face – This is the way
Enough years have passed – Not waiting one minute
It comes from within me – We want brave voices
I can’t breathe
Leaders screaming out loud
I feel suffocated
And every moderate voice is silenced
I can’t breathe
Let's tear the threads of hypocrisy
Come on friends
Think outside the box
I can’t breathe
We can’t breathe
