The song takes on a heartbreaking part of the attacks: when people jumped from the buildings.
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Gerwitz wrote this song two days after the attacks.
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"A plea for a reaction that wouldn't be just a useless show of force," Wool says about her song.
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Arthur sings, "You can't destroy our love / New York is tough." The Onion's reviewers call the song "all the more endearing for its clumsiness."
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Hillman's song suggests that the government is fighting very different enemies now.
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A jingoistic tune about getting revenge, with Keith singing, "Soon as we could see clearly/Through our big black eye/Man we lit up your world/Like the Fourth of July.". "Apparently, Keith has mistaken the War on Terrorism for a bout staged by the World Wrestling Federation," writes Jim Derogatis in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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"I woke up this morning to an empty sky," Springsteen sings. The song "acknowledges the fury that welled up in many bereft New Yorkers after the destruction of Manhattan's two most towering landmarks," writes Kurt Loder in Rolling Stone.
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Corin Tucker sings about watching TV that morning: "And the hardest hit are innocent and far away but it feels so close/And the president hides while working men rush in and give their lives." "Carrie Brownstein's air-raid guitars and Janet Weiss's primal drumming strain to evoke the obscene horror on the screen," writes the Village Voice.
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Velvet Underground drummer Tucker sings "I'm fired up, pissed off / I'm tired and I'm mad."
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Lavin sings about "saying a prayer" while walking past her Upper West Side neighborhood firehouse: "Reality sliced cleanly through/that slender thread of hope/the digging went on and on/some snapped/most of us still cope."
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Robinson wrote the song for a friend whose brother died in the attack.
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Sir Paul debuted this during the "Concert for NYC" in Madison Square Garden. "I will fight/For the right/To live in freedom," sings McCartney.
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Hardy, whose brother Jeff died in the attack, writes about feeling guilty to be alive: "down to ground zero/with a rust colored rose/trying hard to close/that door/what have I opened/what have I done/that I'm not the one/it's for."
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From the perspective of a fireman's widow, Springsteen sings, "The sky was falling and streaked with blood. I heard you calling me, then you disappeared into the dust." The song "expresses something every New Yorker has felt walking past the local firehouse since last fall," writes A.O Scott in Slate.
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Vega sings, "I am no great patriot/I never wear the flag/and I only sing the songs that I'm supposed to in a crowd/but if I travel to Chicago or just take the train downtown/I see the grace that's under pressure, that's what I report out loud. "
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The song, written from the perspective of American John Walker Lindh, who fought for the Taliban, has been both widely praised by music critics and attacked as treason, with the New York Post shrilling, "Twisted Ballad Honors Tali-Rat." The Nation wrote, "this is storytelling." The song, "seeks to understand how Lindh viewed himself. It praises neither Lindh nor his choices. "
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In his song about Todd Beamer and the passengers of Flight 93 who fought to take back control of the plane from the hijackers, Young sings, "Let's roll for freedom/Let's roll for love/Goin' after Satan/On the wings of a dove." Amazon reviewer Kim Hughes was not impressed: "Sounds like a guy who's spent more time watching CNN than honing his lyrics."
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"A vivacious rocker with a soaring cello and violin hook" that "makes ominous allusions to vipers in the grass and a dark sun on the rise," writes Salon.
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A woman in Redhook, Brooklyn watches the aftermath of the attacks.
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The song "totally stemmed from September 11," singer Jacoby Shaddix told the BBC. "I just wish that people really kept that spirit going. "
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Springsteen sings from the perspective of a woman who lost a loved one in the attacks, "your favorite record's on the turntable/I drop the needle and pray."
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Keller says she tried to write a prayer "to remind us of where we are and why."
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"New York City is down on her knees/ Prayin'/Together with you," sings Roche. Roche says that the song was written for the family members of victims from Squad One, "the firehouse in Park Slope that lost 12 men, fathers to 27 children."
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About how hard it is to try to capture September 11 in a song.
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Wainwright sings about riding the New York City subway after the attack. "Now you have to take the A train/There's no more service on the C." Called an "unadorned folk song about the way lives have changed since Sept. 11."
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Sung from the perspective of a rescue worker.
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"I'll never not be mindful/never not be mindful/that it was on a day like this/on a clear day," sings Hardy, whose brother died in the attacks.
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The song begins from the perspective of a suicide bomber and later shifts to the point of view of a woman whose husband died in the Pentagon attack, writes Time magazine. "The first verse was inspired by the newspapers, the second, a phone conversation Springsteen had with a Washington widow."
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Canadian rock group's take on September 11. "Talk of a Peaceable Kingdom/Talk of a time without fear/The ones we wish would listen/Are never going to hear."
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Ghostface Killah screams: "Who the f*** knocked our/buildings down?/Who the man behind the World Trade Center/massacres, step up now."
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Over a vicious drum-and-bass beat," writes Rap Reviews.com, they "convey the urgency of the hour."
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Song takes a critical look at the "War on Terror" and England's role, singing "People did you see that fire in the city/ It's like we're fresh out of democratic/ Gotta get yourself a little something semi-automatic yeah." The video shows Tony Blair as George Bush's lap dog.
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A song from the point of view of the Afghani people, being bombed and getting food drops at the same time.
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When trying to write about September 11, Albrink kept returning to the fact that "that day was rare and beautiful, a perfect day. If not for the unfolding horror, it seemed destined to be forgettable, a lazy, late summer day."
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"Juxtaposes images of death and dread with the life force of sex," writes Joyce Millman in Salon.
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"The narrator is a dead firefighter or rescue worker whose soul transcends the carnage to receive a heavenly reward," writes Salon.
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"The city my arrow, my compass and grid," sings Rose about finding his way in a changed city.
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"Everyone's asking if I am alright/I wish I could speak for us all," sings Weinstein.
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Proceeds from the sale of the single go to the Twin Towers Fund.
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Jackson recorded this for-charity single, hyped as the "We Are The World for September 11, with Mariah Carey and Ricky Martin. Sony Music has still not released the track, despite protests and petitions.
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Suzanne Vega calls the song "an apocalyptic vision of the violence and obscenity of the act, and the devastation left in its wake."
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"I'm just a singer of simple songs/I'm not a real political man," Jackson sings, asking that question we all have heard so many times: "where were you?"
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New Yorker Hillman was in California on Sept. 11, and writes about experiencing the tragedy from afar.
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The song's use of qawwali, the "intense, God-conjuring, life-affirming vocal music of the mystical Sufi sect of Islam," underneath Springsteen's vocals is a "truly soul-stirring experience," writes Kurt Loder in Rolling Stone .
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Beckerman sings about how the attacks made her realize how impermanent things may be.
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As Time reported, Springsteen telephoned family members of September 11 victims who loved his music after reading about them in the New York Times' "Portraits in Grief" obituaries. "I found those to be very, very meaningful--incredibly powerful," Springsteen said.
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