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~*~ KLEENEX WARNING ~*~

Just about EVERY single military Mom will know what this means...
Kleenex warning.

It means be prepared for emotions to flow to tears.

But ya know, tears can be good and healing...........................

I first heard the song, The Other Side, while surfing
the web late last year - (2007)

I've shared it with some Gold Star Military Mom friends and
they have been very moved. The one Mom told me it was like
her son was speaking right to her.

There is nothing that can totally take away the pain of losing
a loved one, but this song ~The Other Side~ is a
great comfort.

Thank you Don for sharing your message with
the world. I've shared links to your web site
where the CD can be purchased.

Paradox of Grace - CD

Credits:
Don Conoscenti: all instruments, lead vocal, high vocal at end
Ellis Paul: harmony vocals
Released 2001

The Other Side

I'm over on the other side
where life and death softly divide.
Left my skin and bones behind
now I'm over on the other side.

Can you feel me there with you?
My breath is gone but I'm not through.
Loved you then and i still do
from over on the other side.

I can fly. really fly.
below the earth ... all through the sky.
Tell em all I did not die.
I'm just over on the other side.

It's good here on the other side.
The sweetest songs...the bluest skies.
Thank you for the tears you cried
but it's good here on the other side.

I can fly. really fly. below the earth...all through the sky.
Tell em all I did not die.
I'm just over on the other side

The world is smaller than a needle's eye.
Where life and death softly divide.
When you leave your skin and bones behind
I'll be waiting on the other side.

I can fly. really fly. below the earth ... all through the sky.
Go tell em all I did not die.
I'm just over on the other side.

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An Interview with Don Conoscenti

mogswebsite.com:

Would you share the inspiration behind the song, The Other Side?

Don Conoscenti: It was a convergence of several things. One, was the desire to write a song about the death experience from an eastern point of view, with a western vernacular. That idea had been incubating for two or three years after reading Ram Dass' book. A book about dying. And then some friends of mine had a son named Jack, and Jack lived for nine days and went back. And when they let me know about that, they inquired if that was something I'd be moved to write about, and I said well, I don't really know. I'm definitely moved by your experience, but I don't know if I'd write about it. But sometime, shortly thereafter, the poem came to me while I was driving through the desert in New Mexico. And the music followed about two weeks later. Two to three weeks later, I was in Boston. I picked up my steel guitar and the music kind of jumped out pretty much the same way the lyrics did. I mean, I don't know, poems, lyrics, how ever you want to describe it, it just flowed right out. In twenty minutes it was all done. The music was the same way. It came later.
(December, 2002)

To read the entire interview, please continue to this web site: Don - Interview