"Beyond the sky" genre: Acoustic
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	Credits: Words/Music: Daphna Rahmil. Arranged, performed, produced and engineered: John Borton/Daphna.
	Story Behind the Song The boy's name was Petr Ginz, born in Prague, and he was imprisoned in the ghetto when he was fourteen, made to work in the printing press, printing Nazi propaganda. He'd steal pieces of paper from the press for writing poetry and prose, and for sketching. He loved science. Two years later he was sent to Auschwitz and gassed there shortly afterwards. On the day he left his younger sister begged the guards to let her go too, but they refused. So she gave him a piece of bread and said good bye. His drawings ended up in Yad Vashem, the Israeli holocaust museum/memorial. The Israeli astronaut took a copy of one of Petr's pencil drawings up in the shuttle with him. It depicted a moonscape, with planet earth looming large in the moon's sky. The song is addressing his sister, who is still alive. The song was written the night before the shuttle was to return to earth. It never made it home. Lyrics Dedicated to the memories of Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kaplana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon and Petr Ginz I was once a boy Frozen in your memory Trapped in the insanity Of a human cage. A fourteen year-old dreamer, In the darkest night of history, Sketching scenes of fantasy Upon a stolen page, But now I can dream again, I can live again, And I can fly! And the world seems so beautiful from here Beyond the sky. Your eyes were just like Mama’s When you looked at me that morning And shared with me in parting Your only piece of bread. As they pushed me to the train I whispered words of loving But all the guards were shouting And you had turned you head. But now I can love again, I can live again And I can fly! And the world seems so beautiful from here Beyond the sky. And even when I stood there, Gasping in the showers I dreamed of trees and flowers And rockets to the moon So sister don’t you weep, For now’s my finest hour The angels gave me power To make a dream come true For now I can breathe again, I can live again And I can fly! And the world seems so beautiful from here Beyond the sky.

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