Finding this thread just made my day. I've written a song as a memorial tribute to those who suffered in the World Trade Center disaster, and I've put it online in the hopes that people will find it and take some comfort in it.
I'm and American, but I'm in Australia at the moment and there was nothing else I could do to help except write music for the people that were harmed. I've put the lyrics before, but please go to my website and listen to the song instead of just reading the lyrics.

Thanks all of you that were here before me for your support of poetry, music, art, and sympathy.

- Jeremy Borum
jaborum@ucdavis.edu
http://www.crosswinds.net/~jborum/

"OUT OF TUNE"

How could you?
You heartless assholes.
There are better things in life than power -
Try relationships, love, spirituality.

Most folks wouldn't give $10 for politics,
but you gave your life for politics,
for greedy selfish people.
And you gave hundreds of other lives.
Those people never hurt you.
They never knew you.

Your friends, the ones you died for,
do they feel remorse?
Do the people with no family
and the man without his skin,
does it make them regret?
Does the baby burned to death make them cry?
It made me cry.

Or do they sit at home with smiles on their faces and watch their CNN?
Do the images of destruction make them proud?
How could you?
My folks were gonna fly tomorrow.
You assholes.
It could have been them.

But more importantly, somebody's loved ones flew yesterday, and today they're all alone.
My heart and prayers go out to them.
This song goes out to them.

It's all that I can do, 'cause the world's out of tune.
You have my heart, you have my prayers.
It's all that I can do, 'cause the world's all out of tune.