So speaking of scary stuff, I have another ‘traumatic experience’ while watching the news at SXSW moment to relate (note, I didn’t spend all of SXSW in front of the boob tube, both this and the CNN Crossfire thing were caught flipping the news channels for about 15 minutes before the Bruce Sterling party [and before I found and vegged on the really bad original Buffy movie on HBO before taking off]).
CNN had a live performance from some country singer with a ‘controversial’ new song, where he sang all kinds of mawkish jingoistic whatnot to slow-motion 9/11 footage. It gets you right there, if you know what I mean. After mentioning it to a friend, I looked it up, and via some slight google-fu, found the guy in some writeups, David Worley.
Here’s an RM for you’re aural pleasure. Oh, and the lyrics, you’ll love this (if you’re using IE, give Jesse’s paren_tips bookmarklet a try):
‘Have You Forgotten?’ lyrics
Verse
I hear people saying we don’t need this war
I say there’s some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn’t get to keep ’em by backing down
They say we don’t realize the mess we’re getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend
Chorus
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry ’bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Verse
They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it’s too disturbing for you and me
It’ll just breed anger that’s what the experts say
If it was up to me I’d show it everyday
Some say this country’s just out looking for a fight
After 9/11 man I’d have to say that’s right
Repeat chorus
Bridge
I’ve been there with the soldiers
Who’ve gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they’re fighting for
Chorus 3
Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Some went down like heros in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
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Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Wow, can you say it with me? Wow. I think it speaks for itself.