This is a 9/11 tribute song. "Once we had laughed about a discount store and a diamond ring" is a tribute to her friend who died in the towers. She sings of New York being united through this horrible day and how it could have good ("maybe we're better now - stronger, with a deeper soul / and we'll be whole again in a different way / and this time will teach for a new day"). But she mainly focuses on how so many of us wanted time to just hurry up, to bring us past this time of hurt.
This is a 9/11 tribute song. "Once we had laughed about a discount store and a diamond ring" is a tribute to her friend who died in the towers. She sings of New York being united through this horrible day and how it could have good ("maybe we're better now - stronger, with a deeper soul / and we'll be whole again in a different way / and this time will teach for a new day"). But she mainly focuses on how so many of us wanted time to just hurry up, to bring us past this time of hurt.
Beautiful.