# Help me with this list about songs relating to 9/11 & Iraq/Afghanistan **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 18, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873 "2004-02-18T21:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/21 "2004-10-05T04:03:00Z")
Goooooooood Old Iraqi Top. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/22 "2004-10-05T04:08:09Z")
While not specifically about 9/11, I get a strong 9/11 vibe from Assemblage 23’s “30KFT,” off their newest CD “Storm.” A very haunting song. ---
**Author:** ![frenetic\_amnesic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@frenetic\_amnesic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frenetic_amnesic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/23 "2004-10-05T07:09:47Z")
While I can’t remember who sings it, there is a song called My Neighbors In Delray. It’s a song about the hijackers who lived in Delray Beach, FL. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/24 "2004-10-05T16:37:35Z")
I have no idea who sang it or even what it’s called, but when I was on holiday a few months after 9/11 watching MTV Asia in Thailand, and a song came on with happy, bouncy people in brightly coloured Power-Rangers style costumes all jumping around and singing “woooah Bin Laden!”. It had an animation of a plane flying towards various international landmarks - the Twin Towers, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, etc, and just at the last minute the building would “bend” out of the way of the plane. It was bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/25 "2004-10-06T00:41:54Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > While not specifically about 9/11, I get a strong 9/11 vibe from Assemblage 23’s “30KFT,” off their newest CD “Storm.” A very haunting song. Nice work. I’ll also throw out “On Your Knees” by **Dismantled** , which was written on the afternoon of 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/26 "2004-10-06T02:58:11Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > > [@\_bec\_](#): > > > > Only in America–Brooks and Dunn > > This was one was out before 9-11 and got a lot of airplay subsequent to it. Aaron Tippen’s **Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly** was actually written before 9/11 also, but was not released until afterwards, according to an interview that Tippen did. I’ll add John Michael Montgomery’s [Letters From Home](http://www.countrygoldusa.com/letters_from_home.asp). (This site has a list of supposed “Patriotic Songs” on it, but the list includes songs like “Achy Breaky Heart” and “I Wanna Talk About Me”, so I don’t know how helpful it would be.) (The first page I went to for the lyrics for Letters From Home is at [here](http://www.hit-country-music-lyrics.com/letters-from-home-lyrics.html), this page also plays the song, if you want to hear it.) ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/27 "2004-10-06T11:26:40Z")
Although nothing to do with 9/11,Billy Joel’s Miami 2017 is eerily reminiscent of it > [@](#): > > I’ve seen the lights go out on broadway- > I saw the empire state laid low. > And life went on beyond the palisades, > They all bought bright cadillacs- > And left there long ago. > > We held a concert out in brooklyn- > To watch the island bridges blow. > They turned our power down, > And drove us underground- > But we went right on with the show… > > I’ve seen the lights go out on broadway- > I saw the ruins at my feet, > You know we almost didn’t notice it- > We’d see it all the time on forty-second street. > … > I saw the lights go out on broadway- > I watched the mighty skyline fall. > The boats were waiting at the battery, > The union went on strike- > They never sailed at all. > … > There are not many who remember- > They say a handful still survive… > To tell the world about… > The way the lights went out, > And keep the memory alive… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/28 "2004-10-06T12:02:16Z")
On September 11 this year, the Annoying Music Show on NPR dispensed with annoying music and played an acoustic guitar folk rock sort of song called “Land of the Living”. Ah ha! A bit of googling, and [here](http://www.newmorningtv.tv/links_landoftheliving.jsp) are the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/29 "2004-10-06T14:19:22Z")
Not specifically 9/11 but I love _Letters from Home_, by John Michael Montgomery. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/30 "2004-10-06T17:46:08Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb here and file [this](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/sod/speakenglishordie.html#16) under “not quite what you’re looking for”. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/31 "2004-10-06T18:11:00Z")
Cutting to the other end of the “War on Terrorism” timeline: John Fogarty’s “Deja Vu (All Over Again)” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/32 "2004-10-06T18:40:14Z")
Gee, it’s too bad the OP never joined so they probably can’t read this thread now. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/33 "2004-10-07T11:55:55Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I’m going to go out on a limb here and file [this](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/sod/speakenglishordie.html#16) under “not quite what you’re looking for”. I like Song 12 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kristenchang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@kristenchang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kristenchang)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/34 "2004-10-07T13:16:34Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > **Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning** by Alan Jackson. This one was read into the Congressional Record, and I can’t listen to it without bursting into tears. the lyrics is quite good and touching…i like it so much… ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873/35 "2004-10-07T13:53:03Z")
How about those two incredibly overplayed songs: _Only Time_ by Enya and \*Superman \*by Five for Fighting. If I never hear either of those songs again, it will be too soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-list-about-songs-relating-to-9-11-iraq-afghanistan/229873.md?page=1)