The Song I associate most with 9/11

Published on September 11, 2004 By Gideon MacLeish In Misc

OK, most of you have already heard this about this song, but here goes.

After 9/11, the radio stations played songs that they felt captured the mood. One man was travelling in his car, and the Five for Fighting song "Superman (It's Not Easy)" came on the air. He felt it was an appropriate theme for the firefighters and the policeman, and he was instrumental in getting Five for Fighting to play the song at the Concert for New York. So, in the spirit of 9/11, I thought I'd post the lyrics:

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 and
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 conceed
Even Heroes have the right to dream but
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

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
More than a man looking for a dream
Only a man in a funny red sheet
It's not easy to be me.

Comments

Suspeckted

on Sep 11, 2004

not a rip on the song you posted here by any means but I thought I'd throw in the song that I most associate with 9/11 which happens to be from a very different take. I'm actually going to see this guy tonight even though I'm supposed to get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning for a 70 miles bike ride...oh well, should be worth it.

TITLE: Makeshift Patriot
AUTHOR: Sage Francis
PRODUCER: Shalem B
ALBUM: Personal Journals

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
Hang Myself...Half Mast

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself...via live telecast.

Coming live from my own funeral...the beautiful weather offered a nice shine,
Which is suitable for a full view of a forever altered skyline.
It's times like these I freestyle biased opinions every other sentence.
My journalistic ethics slip when I pass them off as objective.
"Don't gimme that ethical @#%$."
I've got exclusive, explicit images to present to impressionable American kids,
And it's time to show this world how big our edifice is!

That's exactly what they attacked when a typically dark skinned Disney villain
Used civilians against civilians and charged the trojan horses into our buildings.
Using commercial aviation as instruments of destruction,
Pregnant women couldn't protect their children. Wheelchairs were stairway obstructions.
Now I have to back petal...from the shower of glass and metal,
Wondering how after it settles we'll find who provided power to radical rebels.
The Melting Pot seems to be calling the kettle black when it boils over,
But only on our own soil so the little boy holds a toy soldier...
And waits for the suit and tie to come home. We won't wait 'til he's older,
Before we destroy hopes for a colder war to end. "Now get a close up of his head..."

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
Hang Myself...Half Mast

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself while the stock markets crash

The city is covered in inches of muck
I see some other pictures of victims are up
Grieving mothers are thinking their children are stuck
Leaping lovers are making decisions to jump
While holding hands...to escape the brutal heat. Sometimes in groups of the three.
The fall out goes far beyond the toxic cloud where people look like debris.
But all they saw after all was said...beyond the talking heads
Was bloody dust with legs looking like the walking dead calling for meds.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. volunteers need to go the hell home.
Moments of silence for fire fighters were interupted by cell phones.
Who's going to make that call to increase an unknown death toll?
It's the one we rally behind. He's got a megaphone...and he's promising to make heads roll,
So we cheer him on, but espestos is affecting our breath control.
The less we know...the more they fabricate...the easier it is to sell souls
An addictive 24 hour candle light vigil in TVs.
Freedom WILL be defended...at the cost of civil liberties.
Viewers are glued to television screens. Stuck...'cause lots of things seem too sick.
I use opportunities to pluck heart strings for theme music.

I'll show you which culture to punp your fist at and what foot is right to kiss.
We don't know who the culprit is yet...but he looks like this.
We know who the heros are. Not the xenophobes who act hard,
"We taught that dog to squat. How dare he do that @#%$ in our own back yard!"

They happened to scar our financial state and char our landscape.
Can you count how many times so far I ran back this same damn tape?
While a camera man creates news and shoves it down our throats on the West Bank,
With a 10 second clip put on constant loop to provoke US angst.

So get your tanks and load your guns and hold your sons in a family huddle,
Because even if we win this tug of war and even the score...humanity struggles.
There's a desperate need of blood for what's been uncovered under the rubble,
Some of them dug for answers in the mess...but the rest were looking for trouble.

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
Hang Myself...Half Mast

Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself.
Don't waive your rights with your flags.

wuxiaomao

on Sep 11, 2004

Landslide: Dixie Chicks version.

Death_By_Beebles

on Sep 11, 2004

I think I associate September 11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers with the same song, gid.

One thing that agrivates me the most about Sept. 11 is that we have to reduce it down to numbers.

9/11.

Sounds like a fricking test score. People don't want to remember....

It makes them squimish, and they don't like it.

I'd gladly take the pain of remembering over the bliss of forget.

Peace,

Beebes

liveletlive

on Sep 11, 2004

I'll always remember the commercial with a man singing Joni Mitchell's "River" , over images of the tragedy.

If only George Bush hadn't been so damn stupid!

Also , look at the clues : 911 ( as in emergency ) The planes : American, United

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