Land of the Living by Lucy Kaplansky

In my opinion, an artist who was there has the most impact. In this song, NYC native Ms. Kaplansky so vividly describes the afterlife, the good ("brothers and strangers on this island of grief, there's death in the air but there's life on this street), the bad ("pictures of faces posted everywhere...mother of two missing down there), and the ugly, a cab driver who was beaten up because he might have been "one of them." This song powerfully reminds us that although the horror of the death of so many innocents happened on the day, this is still the land of the living, this is the land, that's ours.

mark diorio