I Can't See New York

I will never forget September 11, 2001. I was working at the Medical Center in a doctors' office. Brian also worked at the Med, and he had just dropped me off at my building. I got on the elevator with one of the doctors from my office and we rode up together. He mentioned that he had overheard on the radio that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I don't think it even registered to me at that point, and I sort of brushed it off like it was an accidental plane crash.

A terrorist attack never crossed my mind.

We got into the office, and the buzz about it began to grow. We turned on the TV and then the second plane hit. We stayed glued to it all day long. And we heard who they thought had done it. And we were learning how and why. To this day, I think we still are.

I will never, EVER forget that day. I will never forget the TV coverage that went all day that day, and all day for weeks afterward. The lives lost, the devastation.

Soon after, I was introduced to the music of Tori Amos (thanks, Melinda!) and the first album of Tori's that I bought was Scarlet's Walk. On it, there is a song called "I Can't See New York". It has always made me think of 9/11 from the first listen. Every year, on 9/11, I play it and remember all the people who died that day. I remember how helpless I felt that day, watching people die and suffer on TV and not being able to help them.

But I will never forget them.

I found "I Can't See New York" on YouTube, as a video with pictures from that day of devastation and loss. I wanted to share it. You can see it here.

Lyrics Here:
I Can't See New York
by Tori Amos

From here
no Lines are drawn
From here
no lands are owned
13,000 and Holding
swallowed in the purring
of her Engines
tracking the Beacon here
"is there a Signal
there on the other side"
on the other side?
what do you mean
the side of what things?

and you said
and you did
and you said
you would find me here
and you said
and you would find me
even in Death
and you said
and you said
You'd find me

But I can't see New York
as I'm circling down
through white cloud
falling out and I know
his lips are warm
but I can't seem to find
my way out
my way out

I can't see New York
as I'm circling down
through white cloud
falling out and I know
his lips are warm
but I can't seem to find
my way out
my way out
of this Hunting ground

From here
crystal meth
In metres of millions
In the end all we have,
soul blueprint.
and did we get lost in it
do we conduct a search for this
"from the other side"
from the other side?
what do they mean
side of what things...

and you said
and you did
and you said
you would find me here
and you said
that you would find me
even in Death
and you said
and you said
You'd find me

But I can't see New York
as I'm circling down
through white cloud
falling out and I know
his lips are warm
but I can't seem to find
my way out
my way out

I can't see New York
cause I'm circling down
through white cloud
and I'm falling out and
I know your lips are warm
but I can't seem to find
my way out
my way out
of your Hunting ground

you again
It's you again
I can't see
I can't see New York
I can't see
I can't see New York
from the other side
I Hum from the other side