Story Behind The Song

9/11

Song Description

The American peoples view and realized understanding of what that day meant in a positive sense

Lyrics

Standing Up Tall
© Douglas J. Walters
July 2002

Standing Up Tall

No one died in New York City
No one died on that September Morn
No one died in New York City
On that day three thousand angels were born

Now why is it man always turns against man
Like he?s looking for someone to blame
What kind of man wears such a cloak of hatred
That he claims to kill in Gods name

No one died in New York City
We don?t run from our enemies
No one died in New York City
Three thousand souls toll the bell that freedom rings

(CHORUS)
Standing up tall
My head held high
Hand on my heart
As the eagle fly?s by

Well I went up to New York City (voices I hear)
And I stood where the towers once stood (faces I see)
I saw ordinary hero?s break down and cry
(red white and blue)
As a flag draped coffin moved slowly by
(I still believe)

I heard pounding machines
Speak the last words for innocent lives
And I watched as the tears of freedom
Fell from a country?s eyes
From a towering bream of steel
I saw a tattered flag flown
And heard the voice of God
Welcoming his children home

(CHORUS)
Standing up tall
My head held high
Hand on my heart
As the eagle flies by (as the eagle fly?s by - as the eagle fly?s by)


They say in Pennsylvania
there?s a field where flowers always bloom
And in the Pentagon
There?s a soldiers ghost that moves from room to room
While out on Liberty Island
The lady stands with a faith that time and God and time have brought
Challenge as it may be
There are no hands on the face of freedom?s clock!

(red, white and blue)

(CHORUS)
Standing up tall
My head held high
Hand on my heart
As the eagle flies by (I still believe ? I still believe)