Metal Works artists responded to the day by doing what they do best... creating music. Here are the songs featured on tonight's show in remembrance of the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001.
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TESLA
“Heaven Nine Eleven”
(written by Frank Hannon)
Tell me why there's so much pain today
Taking lives is for their gain, or so they say
I can't believe it but they feel this way
And that's the way of the world
Tell me why it takes a tragedy to see
To wake us up, and bring us down to our knees
All the people suffering with disease
And that's the way, that's the way
That's the weight of the world
As the world crashes down, heaven's looking better everyday
As the sun burns the ground, there's gotta be another way
Is our God looking down, and does he feel everybody's pain
As the world crashes down, Heaven's looking better everyday
Teach the children what it means to love
Show them, why now, we can never give enough
Let's work together, we can rise above
And change the ways, change the ways
Change the ways of the world
As the world crashes down, heaven's looking better everyday
As the sky turns to brown, there's gotta be another way
Is our God looking down, and does he feel everybody's pain
As the world crashes down, Heaven's looking better everyday
As the world crashes down, heaven's looking better everyday
As the sun burns the ground, there's gotta be another way
Is our God looking down, and does he feel everybody's pain
As the world crashes down, Heaven's looking better everyday
SWEET & LYNCH
“September”
(written by Michael Sweet and George Lynch)
We woke to find the sky was turning black
Our frozen minds could not comprehend
On that bitter day there'd be no turning back
The wound never heals, the scar doesn't mend
No...
Do you remember?
Eleven September
We still feel the embers
In the cold of December
We stood in awe glued to the images
As the towers fall, a new world begins
We lost our peace and misplaced our privileges
But we gained our pride in the name of the twins
Oh...
Do you remember?
Eleven September
We still feel the embers
In the cold of December
L.A. GUNS
“OK, Let’s Roll”
(written by Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, Steve Riley, and Adam Hamilton)
United Airlines Flight 93
Left 8:01 from gate 17
The victims of a war, they never knew existed
Hell looked them in the eye and still they resisted
Lost brave souls your courage we remember
Sacrificed young lives, Black September
We still hear your battle cry
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
So began the massacre at twenty thousand feet
Red Devils lead the charge, pulled the captain from his seat
They watched them cut and slash at anyone left standing
We knew deep in our hearts, this plane would not be landing
Never once were they ever in control
Lives were lost but they never took our soul
We still hear your battle cry
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
Skies of Pennsylvania became a battle ground
Two hundred miles away, the towers had come down
One last chance to say goodbye, he called her on his phone
Said he knew what must be done, "I am not coming home"
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
Are you ready? Ok, let's roll
W.A.S.P.
“Hallowed Ground”
(written by Blackie Lawless)
Come and take me down the dark beyond
And take me there where I come from
Take me down to the place where I'll kneel
And let me lay my shadow down
In through the eyes of a child's inner me
No pain to heal my bloodied brow
There is no rain to save this silent town
There is no rain to save at all
There is no place to save this silent ground
There is no place to save at all
Oh Father take me unto where I'll lay me down
On hallowed ground
Oh the sky is falling and I don't know where my home is now
My hallowed ground
Oh and can you take me for I have tasted hallowed ground
Oh all around
Father, oh do you hear me?
This pain I will not cry aloud
Oh Father, I know you hear me
My head is bludgeoned but unbowed, oh
Oh Father take me unto where I'll lay me down
On hallowed ground
Oh the sky is falling and I don't know where my home is now
My hallowed ground
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Lonn
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