A Song for 9/11: Ani Difranco's "Self Evident"
Of course there have been progressive voices who have spoken thoughtfully about 9/11. None perhaps has spoken as eloquently as this genius poet/lyricist, Ani Difranco.
I listened to "Self Evident" again a couple weeks ago. It had been several years since I had last heard it; too long. As much as I would never want a work of art this powerful to get stale through familiarity, I'm not sure that this piece could ever lose its fierceness. The experience of listening to it again was positively sublime.
Difranco not only "gets it," she deftly negotiates the poetic and the political. She's searing and tender, impeccably alternating between the two.. She kicks ass. She respects the dead. She speaks of a redemption that all can share in, no matter what continent they might inhabit, be they among the living or dead among the rubble. She knows, she sees, she's not fooled by Amerika. She's afraid of neither fear, nor terror, nor the blue-blood violence that our so-called leaders unleash upon the world: dark, besotted fools.
Download it. She's providing it for free. (Prophets nearly always do.)
It's so worth the time you'll spend waiting for it to wend its way into your music collection.
5 star recommendation.