 songs & lyrics Land Of The Shadow (This Side of Paradise, 2001)  This was a song I began writing around the time of Israel's mid-1998 50th anniversary celebrations, and after living for three years in the Palestinian West Bank, whose newly-arrived Palestinian leaders seemed not to have learned from half a century of military occupation of their homeland that torture and arbitrary detention were, in fact, a bad idea. It was written about the whole Middle East. Final version of lyrics: Saturday, August 15th, 1998 Land Of The Shadow (This Side of Paradise, 2001) they arrested the dawn and are interrogating the day (for whom they say) hope is almost gone morning wanders lost in the wastelands of south lebanon evening is in hiding, afternoon's corspe lies on the ground still warm meanwhile night prepares to hunt down and kill your firstborn land of the shadowra'id walks the path of shame and discontent expecting no relief from his cia-trained puppet government he told me how he cried the last time he visited his father and his mother when asked the reason for his generation's paralysis by his youngest brother They're arresting the panthers, the eagles and the hawks they're marching out at gunpoint all those that can walk those that can't are left behind to face the brightness in her eyes a glow they've toiled and strived for fifty years to hide sometimes it feels like it's all just skimming stones on the water peoples colliding and colliding with reality before sinking without trace and should the children ever dare to ask the man the question the answer for their searching eyes is federal laboratories mace hold it down, hold it down, make sure you tie it well 'cause you wouldn't want what's inside to disturb you in your hell do your eyes everywhere really not tell you what they see? or has the deity of calculation blinded you to be the 26 September 1997, Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank; 15 August 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
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