| Collective Soul – The World I Know Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Not sure if I'm the only one on this - I know the song was written long before 9/11, but the lyrics always make me think of how New Yorkers felt such contradictory emotions of being both alone and united after the attacks. Some of the lines remind me of how the rest of the nation and much of the world offered help and sympathy ("Are we listening To hymns of offering? Have we eyes to see That love is gathering?"), but a lot of New Yorkers had to deal with the grief in their own way. It also weirdly makes sense with the "all the words that I've been reading" line - yeah, we read all the stories in the papers but it was still all so hard to make sense of, hard to wrap our minds around and accept. They really did all kind of blur into one, mentally. And then at the end, finally, there's that moment of realization that even after the most unimaginable grief, there can be a kind of redemption, a gratitude that you're alive, and a gradual recognition of how all that's so essentially "New York" about the city is still there, and that's what saw us through. |
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