Fifteen Years Later - In Memoriam

[+ quoththeraven]

With some trepidation, posting this here rather than in the Politics, War and Religion forum because it's meant to be a memorial, not a political discussion, but with the recognition that management may feel the need to move the thread either from the beginning or as the thread develops.

[+ Keith30309]

With some trepidation, posting this here rather than in the Politics, War and Religion forum because it's meant to be a memorial, not a political discussion, but with the recognition that management may feel the need to move the thread either from the beginning or as the thread develops.

 

Thank you - I'd forgotten about this song and had to re-listen.

It does seem to have renewed significance today. In the aftermath - in 2003 - it felt hurt but optimistic but 13 years later "I'm better than you" feels like it's bleaching into our cultural bones.

[+ quoththeraven]

Thank you - I'd forgotten about this song and had to re-listen.

It does seem to have renewed significance today. In the aftermath - in 2003 - it felt hurt but optimistic but 13 years later "I'm better than you" feels like it's bleaching into our cultural bones.

 

The full line is "I never said I'm better than you." More puzzling to me is "I've got a better way/A new killer star." I've always taken "new killer star" as the rise of this form of terrorism or as the fallout (dust, fire, etc.) from the attack, so that line seems to be written from the terrorists' perspective.

[+ Truereview]

 

 

 

See the great white scar

Over Battery Park

Then a flare glides over

But I won't look at that scar

Oh, my nuclear baby

Oh, my idiot trance

All my idiot questions

Let's face the music and dance

 

Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready

I'll never say I'm better, I'm better, I'm better

Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready

I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better, I'm better than you

 

All the corners of the buildings

Who but we remember these?

The sidewalks and trees

I'm thinking now

I got a better way

I discovered a star

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

A new killer star

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

The stars in your eyes

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

I discovered a star

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

 

See my life in a comic

Like the way they did the Bible

With the bubbles and action

The little details in colour

First a horseback bomber

Just a small thin chance

Like seeing Jesus on Dateline

Let's face the music and dance

Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready

I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better

Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready

I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better, I'm better than you

 

All the corners of the buildings

Who but we remember these?

The sidewalks and trees

I'm thinking now

I got a better way

I discovered a star

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

A new killer star

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

The stars in your eyes

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

I discovered a star

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

I got a better way

Oooh oo

I got a better way

Ready, set, go

[+ FreshFluff]

Last night at around 7:30 PM. You can see the light beams on the left.

[+ FreshFluff]

Remember that Lee Greenwood song? "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free."

 

Besides the strange "where," the part of the line that bothered me was "at least." He probably meant meant that although we were in danger, we were free. But it initially sounded like a taunt aimed at those living under the boot of the Taliban, who were neither secure nor free.