 songs & lyrics This Side of Paradise (This Side of Paradise, 2001) no one ever asks, "how are you feeling?" no one ever really asks, "how are you feeling?" la ahada yeselu, "keifa tushhur?" la ahada yeselu haqan, "keifa tushhur?" well today i feel i want to die i saw a man point his gun at a child and i wondered how it could be this way and i wanted so much to make him pay. a friend just told me how his friend was killed in a prison cell in an israeli jail and how they had planned to paint his kitchen one day until his friend was arrested and summer never came. well today i feel i want to kill someone as a mother's tears fall at the death of her son and i hear of how some soldier wouldn't let her see him one last time before they buried his body. i went to a conference in a west bank town and we all stood up and people's heads bowed down. i asked emma if this was for a national anthem and she smiled and said yes as a minute's silence began. well I'm feeling like i've seen everything that's under the sun and i live each day as if it's my last one and i pray one day that all of this will end and i've had enough of too many false friends. well today i'm going down to tel aviv - i've got some pain inside that i want to release 'cause i've seen too many of my people die to let it rest, this side of paradise. holy holy holy lord. god of power and might. heaven and earth are full of your glory. hosanna. hosanna in the highest. 1993, London; 1994, Ramallah, Palestinian West Bank. |