In Silence I Remember

In silence I remember…

C2001/2007- JL Knoblauch/ ASCAP-Multiple personalities Music & DF LaRue/ASCAP-Talamasca Music

Lyrics by JL Knoblauch & Linda Schwartz/ Music by JL Knoblauch & DF LaRue

We waved good-bye as that day began

In Silence I remember 9/11

Can America ever love again?

In silence I know we’ll never be the same

In silence, I pray as it is in heaven

We sent you off to war so confident

Then you never came home to us again

That I promise to never forget

You’ll never get to say I love you again

In silence don’t die away from me

I love you and I remember you’re gone

I saw us in another dimension today

You walked beside me on the south side of the street- no way

I wanted to stop my car, but couldn’t think what to say

I’ve always felt most eloquent in silence

In silence, I love you, in silence I cry and realize

You’re really gone

In silence I pray

Forgive us our trespasses

We were on the south side of the street today

I just wanted to stop to hear you say

just one more time

I love you

But you’re gone

Your just memories

dying away from me

I’ll see you in heaven

For ever and ever I remember you

Friends: I wish the world I lived in had never seen the devastation of America that occurred on the 11th Day of September, 2001. My best friend and I visited Windows on the World at the top of the World Trade Center, 3 weeks before the attack. We prayed for America up there.

We prayed that if something devastating were to ever happen there, that the tiny church in the shadows of the World Trade Center where George Washington prayed after his inauguration, St. Paul’s Chapel, would be spared. If the humble St. Paul’s Chapel, symbol of our first step towards democracy could stand strong, America would stand strong. On 9/11, the only thing that happened to that little church was that the clock stopped. Time also stopped in my heart, in all of our hearts, we pray that time and democracy will march on.

This is a song for those we will continue to love and those we’ve lost and will continue to lose all over the world-a song of remembrance and regret. This song is not about that day, but about the losses we have all suffered since that day that can never be erased from our hearts or our memories. I cry for the children who will never know their parents, for the parents who have lost their children, for the loss of love and the kind world I had known since my childhood.

With 9/11 I saw end of the world as I knew it. It reminded me of the last days with my terminally ill father and the subsequent days, months and years after he passed. I kept seeing him, and us, EVERYWHERE! It took me five years to realize, to convince myself he was actually gone. Never would I be able to hug him, speak to him or hear him say he loved me again. It has been eleven years since his death, and finally, I can be silent no longer.
As a free nation, we hope to create a world where Heaven is Earth and Love reigns supreme. Be silent no longer, celebrate the hero in yourself, do good things and love one another.

Please share this song, pass it on to someone you love. Remember that you can still say “I love you”.

As it is in Heaven,
Jennifer-Lynn Knoblauch
713-478-0890
http://www.myspace.com/missjenniferlynnandthemayhemmamas

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