Shortly after 9/11, a friend of mine heard a drag queen perform Cathedrals by Jump, Little Children at an open mic night in New York. Her retelling of the scene was so vivid that ever since then, I have associated the song with the aftermath of that day, as well as the message I saw scrawled on a dusty car in Lower Manhattan: You can knock us down, but you can’t knock us out.
Our hearts and thoughts are with you, Paris, and Beirut, and all the places where terrible people have done such awful things.
Jump Little Children - Cathedrals
