The lyrics of this song by Laurie Anderson from 1979 still strike me as an amazing startling premonition of 9-11. Just have a look at the middle part:

I think we have reached the age of force, justice is gone already. But what does the last sentence mean? Is Mom = Mother Earth? Or is the end of force the end of the male dominance and the beginning of a new age of matriarchy? Or maybe it refers to the fact that after force, which in practice means war, most men are dead and only widows, old people and kids are left?

Whatever. Laurie Anderson who also made some of the most lucid comments on 9-11 just released a two CD album of her concerts at Town Hall, NYC Sept. 19-20 2001, a little more than a week after the attacks. It was the first time in twenty years she performed O Superman. The atmosphere was rather eery as she explains in an 11'30'' interview for Here and Now broadcast on NPR. You can listen to it here (via planing lakes). She regrets the lack of analysis of what really happened more than a year ago and talks about the song, New York, the current atmosphere there and her next project involving a gigantic violin in the Wintergarden. In between the questions and answers there are bits of songs of her.