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These songs were inspired by, or strongly associated with, the events of 9/11/2001:

• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lily Allen[/lastfm]: “Him”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Bon Jovi[/lastfm]: “Undivided”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Leonard Cohen[/lastfm]: “On That Day”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Charlie Daniels Band[/lastfm]: “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a Flag”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Disturbed[/lastfm]: “Prayer”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Eagles[/lastfm]: “Hole in the World”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Steve Earle[/lastfm]: “Ashes to Ashes”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Melissa Etheridge[/lastfm]: “Tuesday Morning”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Everclear[/lastfm]: “The New York Times”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lupe Fiasco[/lastfm]: “Words I Never Said”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Good Charlotte[/lastfm]: “The Innocent”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Juliana Hatfield[/lastfm]: “Hole in the Sky”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]John Hiatt[/lastfm]: “When New York Had Her Heart Broke”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Alan Jackson[/lastfm]: “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Toby Keith[/lastfm]: “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Paul McCartney[/lastfm]: “Freedom”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]My Chemical Romance[/lastfm]: “Skylines and Turnstiles”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Slayer[/lastfm]: “Jihad”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Bruce Springsteen[/lastfm]: “My City of Ruins” and “The Rising”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Serj Tankian[/lastfm]: “Empty Walls”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Thrice[/lastfm]: “Broken Lungs”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Velvet Revolver[/lastfm]: “Messages”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Darryl Worley[/lastfm]: “Have You Forgotten?”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Wu-Tang Clan[/lastfm]: “Rules”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Yellowcard[/lastfm]: “Words, Hands, Hearts” and “Believe”
• [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Neil Young[/lastfm]: “Let’s Roll”

Plus many other songs that fit right into the mold, that were already recorded before it all happened. ~JZ.