"This is the Day" by The The from the Album "Soul Mining"

Written in the early 1980's, "This is the Day" helped me as I struggled to come to an emotional understanding of 9/11. It represents my fellow forty-something, fans of early alternate rock. It's prominent lyric "... Watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky, This is the day your life will surely change." drew me back to this song. The melody is poignant and haunting and the words seem meant to describe both the bereaved and all of us casting about for way to mourn such a unthinkable loss. This was the song that allowed me to cry. And it still does.

Eric Seldner