If I'm correct, this song is one of the two songs that didn't make the setlist of The Rising (2002). You can tell that this is a post 9/11 song from some of the lines:
"Radio's crackling with the headlines, wind in the phone lines" - Could refer to all the headlines and news that took place after the incident. The phone lines could refer to all the calls to distressed family members
"Dark and bloody autumn pierces my heart" - This may refer to the autumn that took place after 9/11 in 2001
"I got nothing but hard blue sky and sunshine, the things you left behind" - Just like "You're Missing" from The Rising, this can refer to the loss of a loved one in the 9/11 attacks.
Great song, I wonder why it didn't make the cut for The Rising.
If I'm correct, this song is one of the two songs that didn't make the setlist of The Rising (2002). You can tell that this is a post 9/11 song from some of the lines:
"Radio's crackling with the headlines, wind in the phone lines" - Could refer to all the headlines and news that took place after the incident. The phone lines could refer to all the calls to distressed family members
"Dark and bloody autumn pierces my heart" - This may refer to the autumn that took place after 9/11 in 2001
"I got nothing but hard blue sky and sunshine, the things you left behind" - Just like "You're Missing" from The Rising, this can refer to the loss of a loved one in the 9/11 attacks.
Great song, I wonder why it didn't make the cut for The Rising.