I saw a picture
How could you be so careless
How could you have done that to us
And I write this letter
I send it all back to you
And every word you said

[1] - In there every word, oh oh oh oh
How could you have done that to us

You treated me like a stranger
And all the time I was loving you
All your slick moves
They were once innocent moves
I wanted to look up to you
I really trusted you
And every word you said

[Repeat 1]

(Love is what the word was)

[2] - I was loving you like a child
All the time you were smiling
The same smile
I was loving you like a child
I really trusted you

Every word you said
Every word you said
(Love is what the word was)

Every word you said
Every word you said
(Love is what the word was)
(Love is what the word was)

Every word you said
Every word you said

[Repeat 2]

Every word you said
Every word you said
(Love is what the word was)
I send it back to you, yeah
(Love is what the word was)

Every word you said
Every word you said
(Love is what the word was)
I send it all back to you, yeah
(Love is what the word was)

Every word

Sade

Here it is,

The 5th anniversary of 9/11 and I have to ask what have we all learned since that fateful morning?

I still remember getting the call that morning and waking up to it all thinking I was dreaming.  This can't be happening.  This is America!  Land of the free.  Home of the brave.  Yet there I lie watching my tv screen wondering how the hell this could happen.  All those lives lost for no apparent reason other than spite and hate.  How does someone kill innocent people over a beef they had with someone else?

Maybe I'm just naive to the ways of the world and what people are capable of but I was appalled at the fact someone could do something so cowardice.  If you have convictions then stand up for them.  Bring your beef to their back door not to the door of innocent people that have NOTHING whatsoever to do with your problem.

I sat and watched a retrospective on the events of that morning today and I felt the same emotions welling up inside me that were there the day it all happened.  It was if I was right back there all over again.  Watching in horror as people stood helpless as the desperate ones jumped from the windows.  Watching in fear as they ran when the first tower collapsed, covered in the ash from the debris.   Watching with pride as Mayor Guiliani and his staff walked among the scared and displaced people as he rallied with the support teams to show his leadership in a time when there was mass hysteria.  And rightfully so.

Through it all I couldn't help wonder what have we learned?  Has anything really changed since this catastrophic event?  Have policies changed in light of the fear and widespread panic this monumental event brought to our once great nation?  We watched the families of all the lives this terrorist act affected and I wonder if it's made us any better than we were and what great strides have we made to be sure something like this could never happen again?

Truth be told I don't feel we've learned anything at all.  Certainly our government seems back to business as usual as they sit on their fat wallets and wave their hands over policies that can directly affect all our lives but yet nothing seems to get any better.  Hurricane Katrina hit and I watched yet another major human plight take shape right on my television screen and was witness to just how slowly the wheels of politics can turn for those less fortunate than others.

How many of these painful events can we all sit through before we are finally snapped into some form of action that will bring on the course of change?  How many people have to die before our government starts to care again?  How many people have to sleep on the streets in this rich and powerful nation before we care enough to stop stepping over them and sneering at them and start to actually take care of them and get them the help they need;  get them off the streets and help them be part of this human race we all live among?

Gone seem to be the days of the people, by the people, for the people.  I feel like I am from a time long gone.  Why did I have to be a child of the 60s and not an adult of one?  Those were the days of social reform and civil action.  Those were the times where people protested and actually knew what the fuck the issue at hand was.  Those were the tension filled moments in time where things were done.  Lives were changed.  Politics was a forum where people were heard not ignored and used as pawns on the fat cats chess boards as they are today.  Everyone has an agenda and none of them have to do with the people they are allegedly fighting for.

So as you're sitting there today watching all the memorials and hearing all the news stories and reliving that one moment in time that changed a nation forever, ask yourself what have we learned from it all and has anything changed in those 5 years?  Ask yourselves what can we do to turn things around and get this nation back on track to being the super power it once was.  A place we can all stand together and be proud to say we're Americans and mean it again and have it mean something to anyone that hears it.

I want it back.  I want to feel safe again.  I want to know that when my kids aren't by my side, they are safe again.  I don't want us living in fear that this could happen again.  I don't want my children to wonder if it could happen again.  I want the history books changed.  I want them to read how we fought back as a proud country and brought back the standard in which we could depend on our government to be there to fight for us based on the democracy that once made us who we were.  I want to be proud to be an American again, not afraid to be one.

Let's rebuild and regain what we once had.  I'd hate to think these people all died in vain.  I want to know that we've learned something from it all and can become again a nation of the people, by the people and for the people.

Here in my mind replaying every line

Remembering all of the love we made

You told me only yesterday

Nothing could take our love away

Here in this room so many traces of you

So many nights lying by your side

Sleeping with secrets deep inside

Secrets your eyes could not deny

Come as you are

Lay with me

Beautiful lies once more tell me

With all the love in my heart

I'll set you free

Now that your eyes have said goodbye

I've found joy so pure

A heart secure

With the love the two of us would share

And though it all seems so unfair

No ones to blame when loves not there

My whole life has changed

Feels like I'll surely go insane

Cause my world revolved round a love that never was

Before I say goodbye to love

Just hold me until the morning comes

Come as you are

Stay with me

Kiss me once more before you leave

With all the pain in my heart

I'll set you free

Now that your eyes have said goodbye

Well I know it's not easy

Finding words to let me know

But the pain of make believing

Is much more than just letting go

Come as you are

Lay with me babe

Beautiful lies once more tell me

With all the love in my heart

I'll set you free

Now that your eyes have said goodbye

Come as you are

Stay with me

Kiss me once more before you leave

With all the pain in my heart

I'll set you free

Now that your eyes have said goodbye

Eric Benet

Would have given up my life for you
Guess it's true what they say about love
It's blind
Girl, you lied straight to my face
Looking in my eyes
And I believed you 'cause I loved you more than life
And all you had to do
Was apologize

You didn't say you're sorry
I don't understand
You don't care that you hurt me
And now I'm half the man
That I used to be when it was you and me
You didn't love me enough
My heart may never mend
And you'll never get to love me, again

No, no, no, no, no, no

Sadness has me at the end of the line
Helpless watched you break this heart of mine
And loneliness only wants you back here with me
Common sense knows that you're not good enough for me
And all you had to do
Was apologize, and mean it

But you didn't say you're sorry
I don't understand
You don't care that you hurt me
And now I'm half the man
That I used to be when it was you and me
You didn't love me enough
My heart may never mend
And you'll never get to love me

I wish like hell I could go back in time
Maybe then I could see how
Forgiveness says that I should give you one more try
But it's too late, it's over now

You didn't say you're sorry
I don't understand
You don't care that you hurt me
And now I'm half the man
That I used to be when it was you and me
You didn't love me enough
My heart may never mend
And you'll never get to love me
Again

Again, yeah, yeah
Again, again, again, yeah, yeah, yeah
Never get to love me

Justin Timberlake

Is everything a baited hook?
And are there locks on our doors?
If your looking for an open book
Look no further, I am yours

We'll behave like animals
Swing from tree to tree
We can do anything
That turns you up and sets you free

You're an exception to the rule
You're a bonafide rarity
You're all I ever wanted
Southern girl
Could you want me?

So come outside and walk with me
We'll try each other on to see if we fit
And with our roots, become a tree
To shade what we make, under it

We'll behave like animals
Swing from tree to tree
We can do anything
That turns you up and sets you free

You're an exception to the rule
You're a bonafide rarity
You're all I ever wanted
Southern girl
Could you want me?

Incubus