"Land Of The Shadow" genre: AAA/Adult Alternative
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	Into the valley of the shadow of death in the Middle East. Live debut performance from Hair of the Dog Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN., 24 April 1999.
	MP3.com CD: This Side Of Paradise - buy it! CD: This Side Of Paradise - Through a glass darkly: Bootleg tracks from the Coffee Bars of St. Paul, MN., 1999   Label: Independent Credits: Words and Music by Nigel Parry; Guitar and vocals by Nigel Parry; Bass by Greg Lyon; Additional percussion by Peter Thomas.
	Story Behind the Song After living in the Palestinian West Bank for a couple of years, a few things became clear.... Land Of The Shadow is a song that sprung out of Israel's 50th anniversary year. Having said that, it's about all the powers who control the country. Images and motifs that appear in the song are from the Israeli-Lebanese war, the mass deportations of Palestinians, state and group terrorism, the first Intifada and the difficulty of the following generation in dealing with the new reality of a peace that isn't, and part of a Red Cross account of the Deir Yassin Massacre (last three lines of verse three). The chorus is lifted, I guess, from Psalm 23. It's funny how you only really notice these things later. Lyrics 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 shadow nation of the valley wall teaching all that can't be killed the tendency to crawl ra'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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