 Want an e-mail when there's something new? Join the e-mail news list today! songs & lyrics Elapse (This Side of Paradise, 2001)  Elapse distilled in the period between 25 September 1996, when Israeli troops shot Birzeit student Yasser Abdul Ghani, and 6 February 1997, the day he finally died after four and a half months in a coma. I heard he had been shot as I was walking across the crowded campus of Birzeit University, surrounded by life and the bright light of a sunny day, and realised that Yasser Abdul Ghani had just stepped into eternity. Later, in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, that sense of frozen moment in time came back, as I stood alone in the tomb of Jesus Christ. Final version of lyrics: Thursday, January 2nd, 1997 Elapse (This Side of Paradise, 2001) one mother, one child and half the world was paralysed. some ran for the shelter others spent lifetimes avoiding their eyes and time itself was torn in two to after and before. the sweet, sweet dance of circumstance silent, washed up on the shore. with a ticking of hearts taking over the world primed like a bomb as i stand above the shattered rock where the tremor first came from i know that consciousness one day will tear like a curtain in the fog and home will come like a tunnel end or a missile thrown by god. and i was dreaminga simple step through a blind man's void that poets chipped in stone and everything we want to know will be laid as bare as long dead bones. with morning broken, blackbird's eye will seek horizon's glare - a painful sight of all of light as night uses up its share. and grass has passed into the fire where willows kiss the stream and a million years of history elapses with a scream. there is no mystic milestone here marking some ancient traveller's choice. just the endless echo of the first few cries of a baby's voice. 2 January 1997, Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank.
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