# Songs that will remind you of the Sept 11 tragedy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286 "2001-09-23T02:39:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/21 "2001-09-24T16:47:47Z")
Well, some days after the tragedy I heard Five For Fighting’s “Superman” (I think that’s the title) and god it made me sad. I guess because the hero theme has been running through my mind a lot recently. It’s a touching song anyway. \*I can’t stand to fly I’m not that naive I’m just out to find The better part of me I’m more than a bird…I’m more than a plane More than some pretty face beside a train It’s not easy to be me Wish that I could cry Fall upon my knees Find a way to lie About a home I’ll never see It may sound absurd…but don’t be naive Even Heroes have the right to bleed I may be disturbed…but won’t you concede Even Heroes have the right to dream It’s not easy to be me Up, up and away…away from me It’s all right…You can all sleep sound tonight I’m not crazy…or anything… I can’t stand to fly I’m not that naive Men weren’t meant to ride With clouds between their knees I’m only a man in a silly red sheet Digging for kryptonite on this one way street Only a man in a funny red sheet Looking for special things inside of me It’s not easy to be me. \* “Imagine” by John Lennon seems extraordinarily poignant right now, I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/22 "2001-09-24T19:55:13Z")
**Walk On** & **Peace On Earth** by U2 **Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad** by Moby **Everybody Hurts** by REM ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/23 "2001-09-24T20:23:05Z")
So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you’ll wait for me Hold me like you’ll never let me go Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane Don’t know when I’ll be back again Oh babe I hate to go ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/24 "2001-09-24T20:59:47Z")
“The Wait” by The Band. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/25 "2001-09-24T21:09:44Z")
“Tastykake” by Burning Airlines (I would say that they would probably not get played on the radio because of their name nowadays but they were never played on the radio anyway, so it doesn’t matter). It isn’t really about anything related to tragedy, but I had this on in the car yesterday and a couple of lines of the lyrics hit me – - Do you still believe you can go anywhere? Are you free if you’re scared? \* ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/26 "2001-09-24T22:06:41Z")
America - Marcy Playground I was listening to this song last week in my car and literally bawling my eyes out as I drove down Bethany Home Rd. Lucy came to the timberline Climbed up on to Rainier and Looked out over Washington Swore she could see the apple trees And she said “ooo ooo oh I never wanna leave Ooo ooo this place Ooo ooo yes I always wanna be Right here” Peter came to the city and Climbed up into Liberty and Looked out over Manhattan He swore he could see the beauty there And he said " ooo ooo oh I never wanna leave Ooo ooo this place Ooo ooo yes I always wanna be Right here" Find a place To call home Any place To call home Right here And so I came in the dead of night Climbed up into the satellite and Looked out over America I swear I could see the buffalo Ooo ooo oh and I never wanna leave Ooo ooo this place Ooo ooo yes I always wanna be Right here, right here Written by: John Wozniak Published by: WB Music Corp. & Wozniak Publishing (ASCAP) ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/27 "2001-09-24T22:20:15Z")
My friend band has a song called Last Man Standing… and theres a lyric that really makes me swell with patriotism and fire… “I dont know, but I believe… you’re either on your feet or you’re on your knees.” Make’s me wanna tear through the rubble until I’m bleeding and dirty and soot-covered and sated. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/28 "2001-09-25T00:56:23Z")
I was making a 230 mile drive yesterday, and I had a Christine Lavin CD in. There were two songs that hit me. _The Sixth Floor_, about the Kennedy assassination, actually, but it talks begins with “There are lots of children here who do not understand”. I started thinking about what it will be like in 30 years, when we have a group of people my age and younger who only know of this from videos. And what the world will be like then. The other song, _The Wild Blue_(I think that’s the correct name) is about Japanese kamikaze pilots in WWII, and how they believed in what they were doing. It’s not glorifying them but taking a look at them and how the idea came about. Both songs made me choke up when I thought about them in connection with the events of the last two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/29 "2001-09-25T01:33:10Z")
I’m nominating another U2 song: “Bullet the Blue Sky,” especially the lines: “Across the field you see the sky ripped open See the rain through a gaping wound Pounding on the women and children Who run Into the arms Of America.” ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/30 "2001-09-25T01:38:34Z")
And a few more by U2: “New York” “When I Look at the World” “Fire” “Seconds” (ESPECIALLY this one!) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/31 "2001-09-25T04:30:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Windows of the World > Dionne Warwick > Words by Hal David; music by Burt Bacharach. > > The windows of the world are covered with rain, > Where is the sunshine we once knew? > Ev’rybody knows when little children play > They need a sunny day to grow straight and tall. > Let the sun shine through. > > The windows of the world are covered with rain, > When will those black skies turn to blue? > Ev’rybody knows when boys grow into men > They start to wonder when their country will call. > Let the sun shine through. > > The windows of the world are covered with rain, > What is the whole world coming to? > Ev’rybody knows when men can not be friends > Their quarrel often ends where some have to die. > Let the sun shine through. > > The windows of the world are covered with rain, > There must be something we can do. > Ev’rybody knows whenever rain appears > It’s really angel tears. > How long must they cry? > Let the sun shine through. \*\* This is Ironic because the last time I spent time in the World Trade Center was for my company’s Xmas party at Windows on the World. I’d always hoped to eat in the actual restaurant because their catering room and the food they cater is pretty bad, but I hear the actual restaurant is great when you got the food to order. Erek ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/32 "2001-09-25T04:34:41Z")
It’s time to say goodbye Yesterday ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/33 "2001-09-25T12:48:11Z")
**"Overcome" by Live** They released this single early because of the tragedy (actually I believe it was the day after the tragedy). The moment I heard it was “the morning after”, sitting at my kitchen table reading the Washington Post and still not comprehending the horrifying images on the front page. That song came on and I bawled until I had to leave for work ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286/34 "2001-09-25T12:48:27Z")
Joni Mitchell: Don’t you know it seems to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone… Did anyone in NYC or the rest of the world ever really notice the World Trade Center anymore. It was just there until it wasn’t. And how can it not be there? I still can’t absorb that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-will-remind-you-of-the-sept-11-tragedy/83286.md?page=1)