[Opening]
[Soft piano and fingerpicked guitar]

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[Verse 1]

There's a hole in the landscape
Where the buildings were seen,
Where the World Trade Centre
Should have been.
The horror that lasted beyond
Those two fate-filled hours,
That sad day of destruction
At the Manhattan Twin Towers.
The deaths of those poor people
On their daily routine,
Not knowing they'd become part
Of that terrible scene.
A scene that will remain with us
Till the day that we die,
A memory that to this day
Still makes people cry.
The dust and the smoke
Belched out from that site,
The people just ran
In the panic and fright.
We can only surmise
At what might have been,
If there were no hole in the landscape
Where the buildings were seen.

[Chorus]

There are holes in our hearts
That time cannot mend.
Some memories stay with us
Until our journey's end.
Though the skyline has changed,
Love remains where it starts.
You can rebuild a city...
But not the holes in our hearts.

[Verse 2]

There's a hole in the sky
Where the souls passed through,
Three thousand souls
That were taken too soon.
They were somebody's Sister,
Somebody's Brother,
Somebody's Father,
And Somebody's Mother.

[Refrain]

Each and every one of them
Had family who cared,
Who have one thing in common,
The feelings they've shared.
The feelings of sorrow,
Of mourning, of hate,
Feeling they should have helped,
But they'd found out too late.
The emergency services
Literally fought for their lives,
And the lives of the victims,
Those husbands and wives.
It wasn't their fault,
There was nothing they could do
To prevent the hole in the sky
Where the souls passed through.

[Chorus]

There are holes in our hearts
That time cannot mend.
Some memories stay with us
Until our journey's end.
Though the skyline has changed,
Love remains where it starts.
You can rebuild a city...
But not the holes in our hearts.

[Bridge]

May we never grow accustomed
To the sorrow and the pain.
May we honour every memory,
And never look away.

[Verse 3]

There's two holes in the ground
Where the Towers once stood,
Two holes that remain
To remember the good.
The good of those people
That passed away,
The good families affected
By that dreadful day.
So many of us pray
That that day won't be repeated,
That fear and tyranny
Will soon be defeated.
But nobody knows
Where the terror may strike,
Evil seems to rise up
Wherever it likes.
Our transport, our buildings,
And even our beaches,
It seems nothing is sacred
Nor beyond its reaches.
So we must keep on fighting
To honour the good,
The two holes at Ground Zero
Where the Towers once stood.

[Final refrain]

There are holes in our hearts
That time cannot mend.
We carry those we loved
Until our journey's end.
Though the skyline has changed,
Love remains where it starts.
You can rebuild a city...
But not the holes in our hearts.

[Soft piano... gentle guitar... fade into silence.]