The Best Song Written About September 11

In your own opinion...what is the song that has moved you the most written about september 11...even though i am Australian...i still have friends of people who have had people in America at the time when it happened...so it has still touched me in a way...and the song that moved me the most is...

Good Charlotte/Mest/Goldfinger - The Innocent

The start of Armageddon, it was just another day
We all saw the news nothing to say
So many friends are missing, our family members gone
So we all pray that God help them be strong
And now we stand together, remembering that day
The lives we live will never be the same

We don't know why, the innocent die
Will this world ever find a way to change
And we don't know why, but we know it's not right
Don't know why so many had to die
I don't know why so many had to die

Hate is turned to others, for their religion or their skin
But hate can't solve the problem it began
Everyone is angry, people are afraid
And no one knows what decisions will be made

We don't know why, the innocent die
Will this world ever find a way to change
And we don't know why, but we know it's not right
Don't know why so many had to die
I don't know why so many had to die

We don't know why, the innocent die
Will this world ever find a way to change
And we don't know why, but we know it's not right
Will any of us ever be the same
Will any of this ever be the same
We don't know why, the innocent die
Will any of us ever be the same
Will any of this ever be the same
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For all those who suffered at the hands of this tradgedy...my thoughts are with you...

For all those who are no longer with us due to this tradgedy R.I.P.

There has been so much of this in the news. It still saddens me when I remember watching those buildings fall for the first time. The very same feeling crept over me, that I'd had as a child, when I saw the Space Shuttle Challenger explode, and the Columbia years later. A moment of silence is in order. :mellow:

What about Live Overcome??

Alan Jackson - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?

Even non country fans can agree that this is one of the most beautiful songs written about this terrible subject.

Bon Jovi - Undivided

talib kweli - the proud

bruce springstien - born in the usa, it makes me proud to be an american B)

even though these are country singers i thought they were great.

toby keith - angry american (courtesy of the red, white, and blue). (great lyrics and gets you pumped up).

darryl worsley - have you forgotten (sad song. doesn't get you pumped up, but makes you remember that day.)

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bruce springstien - born in the usa, it makes me proud to be an american 

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No offense my friend but do you know what that song is even about???

Bruce is knocking the US there was some contaversy over it back in the 80s

listen to thge lyrics not many ppl understand what that song is about

I definately agree with Live - Overcome. That is one of my favourite songs of all time, so powerfull.

Lifehouse have done some related songs to the 9/11 tragedy.

No Sure Way by Loudon Wainwright III (written two days after the event.)

So I started out on High Street. Had to travel into town.
Like some Orpheus descending through a turnstyle underground.
From Brooklin Heights into Manhatten, which was where I had to be.
Now you have to take the A-Train, since there's no service on the C.

And when you are underwater, sometimes the mind plays tricks.
And there beneath the East River, it felt like the river Styx.
The first stop was Broadway Nassau.A few more passengers got in.
We all sat. No-one was standing. That's somewhere we'd never been.

They say Heaven's high above us and Hell is far below.
But in that subway tunnel there was no sure way to know.

Chamber Street, a closed ghost station. Passing through, we seemed to glide.
Like prisoners inside compartments on some house of horrors ride.
The walls were tiled, I hadn't noticed. They seemed so antiseptic, clean.
But we knew what we were under. The lights were on. That seemed obscene.

Then I saw the three initials, W, T and then C.
I'd survived, somehow was living but somewhere I shouldn't be.
At the next stop the doors opened and I immerged up above ground.
I was in another country. Ellyseum Fiels? No, China Town.

They say Heaven's high above us and Hell's not far below.
But standing on Canal Street, there was no sure way to go.

Ladder To Heaven Tribute Song by Alan Jackson:

Where were you, when they built that ladder to heaven?
Did it make you feel like Crying
Or did ya think it was kinda gay?
Well I for one, believe in that ladder to heaven
Oh yeah, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11



i dunno, i just think the sequel is more poignant. sorta like when elton john turned "candle in the wind" into a song about princess diana-- the unabashed opportunism made the song at least ten times better.

the songs which let me remember this events, arE:

TITYO - Come Along

cause I heared it at that time and give me the feeling
that nothing was clear - what happens next? an so on, see
my other posts on that topic...

The other song not directly linked, but I'v downloaded it also on 9-11
on audiogalaxy when starting filesharing there - that is why I think of audiogalaxy
also when remembering 9-11:

Faith Hill - There You'll be

I think when hearing this song - first heared at Pearl Harbor, Faith Hill has really some nice songs - you can remember and think of someone good friend who disappear - that is why it is also good for funerals - to let me remember and wonderful situations with this person...

thanks anyway, david.

i dont know what the song is called but it was played on steve penk's show on capital fm ( london) and its by this lady and she sings so well - its beautiful

*edit - i think its called heaven hold the one i luv

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Originally posted by Adster@11 September 2003 - 23:29
What about Live Overcome??

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Can agree that is up there...that song is really really powerful :)

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Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@12 September 2003 - 05:17
Ladder To Heaven Tribute Song by Alan Jackson:

Where were you, when they built that ladder to heaven?
Did it make you feel like Crying
Or did ya think it was kinda gay?
Well I for one, believe in that ladder to heaven
Oh yeah, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11



i dunno, i just think the sequel is more poignant. sorta like when elton john turned "candle in the wind" into a song about princess diana-- the unabashed opportunism made the song at least ten times better.

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i have to agree with that choice.

writin bout icq will this msg stay in ere well i got a skin from there on my icq and its statue of liberty in rememberence of the americans,english and watever other country was there at the time in the towers and on the planes. www.icq.com