Melissa Etheridge--"Tuesday Morning"

[animuscitizen]

What are your feelings about this song and the lyrics? It gives me goosebumps. I feel "Tuesday Morning" is a riveting, underplayed, protest song. If you don't have this album, please check it out! I think it is Melissa's best work in years.

"Tuesday Morning," from the Melissa Etheridge album "Lucky":

10:03 on a Tuesday morning
In the fall of an American dream
A man is doing what he knows is right
On flight 93
He loved his mom and he loved his dad
He loved his home and he loved his man
But on that bloody Tuesday morning
He died an American

Now you cannot change this
You can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth

Even though he could not marry
Or teach your children in our schools
Because who he wants to love
Is breaking your God's rules
He stood up on a Tuesday morning
In the terror he was brave
And he made his choice
And without a doubt
A hundred lives he must have saved

And the things you might take for granted
Your inalienable rights
Some might choose to deny him
Even though he gave his life
Can you live with yourself in the land of the free
And make him less of a hero than the other three
Well it might begin to change ya
In a field in Pennsylvania

Stand up America
Hear the bell now as it tolls
Wake up America
It's Tuesday morning
Come on lets roll

[wicket]

1. Wow....

Those lyrics are very moving, I will definitely have to get her new album. I'm a huge fan of her older stuff and I'm glad to see she's still going strong, and may she beat that breast cancer dead!

[arcos]

2. I made a post about it on election day...

It is an extremely powerful song, but my thread sank like a stone... :P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1268004

[2nd_class_citizen]

3. Even better when you hear it

It's one of my favorite songs on the cd. I just love the power behind the lines "Can you live with yourself in the land of the free
And make him less of a hero than the other three."
:loveya:

[Christian30]

4. I haven't picked up her new album

yet.. but that gave me chills.

I need to get it.

[BR_Parkway]

5. My Beloved used to be my favorite that she did, but this just replaced it

is it based on real issues from 9/11? I never heard anything about that.

[readmoreoften]

6. Yes

One of the first heroes of 9-11 was a big strapping gay man who I believe said the 'let's roll' line and worked with 3 other straight men to bring the plane down. The man's mom was on talk shows talking about the last call from her son and how much he loved his niece, etc. Then when it was discovered he was gay, you never heard about him again... only the married men who took the plane down.

[JudyM]

7. Yeah, I noticed that sudden silence, too... he was one of the first heroic

faces to emerge after the tragedy. Really moving, but once the 'let's roll' guy (another of the passengers) with the perfect family was recognized we never heard about this guy again. Thanks, Melissa!