Story Behind the Song
This version is the original track, recorded only 10 days after the attacks, while the images and emotions of September 11 were still very fresh. At first, the third verse went "September evening, the worker's search on, receiving phone calls from under the mounds..." because it had been widely rumored that calls had been received from survivors in the WTC basement levels. Those rumors were false. No calls were received after the buildings collapsed. So the phrase "listening for voices" was recorded and patched in virtually seamlessly by master engineer Jacob Satterfield.
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Lyrics
September Morning
September morning, millennium dawn,
rage without warning, the innocent gone.
Gone... where to?
... the ones we knew... Gone.
September noontime, through ashes and smoke,
a man stumbles blindly, coughing and choking.
He finds... a church,
cleans his eyes... in the holy water there.
Such beautiful people, how can this be?
Such violent crimes against... humanity.
Dear God, please receive... their souls.
September evening, the workers search on,
listening for voices from under the mounds
of rock... and steel,
trying not... to feel... the pain.
Remembrance and mourning, millennium's dawn,
grief without warning, our innocence gone.
Gone... where to?
... with the ones we knew... Gone.
Such beautiful people, how can this be?
Such violent crimes against... humanity.
Dear God, please receive... their souls.
Frank Jordan
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