Nirvana - "All Apologies"

This song is aching, emotionally draining, weary, chilling, dark but beautiful. When I heard of this project, it was the first song I thought of. I was at the WTC on 9/11 20 minutes before the first plane hit, watched the second plane hit from my office window. Walking to the ferry, making my way home to NJ that day, all the papers flying around that were blown out of the Trade Center offices. Everyone was so giving on that day, I saw the best of this country that day. Everyone helped me, helped each other, the goodness in in people. I must have received 40 phone calls from friends and relatives who knew I worked near the Trade Center and wanted to be sure I was alright. But the words, the melody of this song resonate with a bleakness, a beauty that I still feel in my bones. "In the sun I feel as one", "All alone is all we are". Fifteen people in my town were killed just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Went to a lot of prayer meetings, memorials. I still can't watch any documentaries about the event. They do not represent what I saw or felt on that day. This song comes close.

Barry Kurtz