Believe

you know it was 4 years ago today that we all watched as our country had the breath knocked out of it on september 11, 2001. its so amazing how fast time goes by, 4 years has gone by on a time when most thought the world would never move again. i skipped school that day and sat at home and heard about the first plane flying into the tower, and all i thought was how unfortunate it was for all the people in the plane. just a few minutes later i was on the road listening to the bob and tom show and they announced that another plane had hit and they mentioned the idea of a terrorist attack. i never made it into my school, i drove to my fire dept. and sat around a tiny tv and watched with a large group of fire fighters, i watched as hundreds of fire and police ran into a building that everyone else was desperate to leave. 59 police and 352 firefighters never again got to see their wives or children. i didnt know anyone there, but a few days later i just laid down under a tree and cried. it was the worst day of my life. it sucks that it took something like this for our country to do some good, and up until a few weeks ago when katrina ravaged the coast, it seems like we had lost that spirit to do good, to band together and dominate the badness that happens to our own people. remember what september 12th or 13th was like? everyone was in a daze, but everyone was ready to help. lines at donation centers, waiting list to give blood, people lined the streets for firefighters and police who were just driving down the road. tragedy tends to show the best of people...maybe we should live our lives like one big tragedy.

Think about the love inside the strength of heart

Think about the heroes saving life in the dark

Climbing higher through the fire, time was running out

Never knowing you weren't going to be coming down alive

But you still came back for me

You were strong and you believed

Think about the chance I never had to say

Thank you for giving up your life that day

Never fearing, only hearing voices calling out

Let it all go, the life that you know, just to bring it down alive

And you still came back for me

You were strong and you believed

Wanna hold my wife when I get home

Wanna tell the kids they'll never know how much I love to see them smile

Wanna make a change or two right now

Wanna live a life like you somehow

Wanna make your sacrifice worthwhile

Think about the love inside the strength of heart

Think about the heroes saving life in the dark

Think about the chance I never had to say

Thank you for giving up your life that day

-Yellowcard

"Again today, we take into our hearts and minds those who perished on this site four years ago, and also those who came to toil in the rubble to bring order out of chaos, to help us make sense of our despair. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here"