Amy Marie Keller

Biography

I've been writing songs since I was three and publishing since I was 16. My dad works for the Port Authority as a traffic engineer and was on floor 73, tower one... he was not there but lost friends.

My uncle works at the Pentagon and was 50 meters from impact. He was severely burned and almost killed but is fine now.

I cut the demo for this project rather hastily, but it was a Port Authority radio maintenance (I can't spell) guy who helped me lay the thing down, building recording equipment in his living room for me on the fly. He used to work on the antennas on the top of the towers but he was also not in work that day.

Amy's website: http://stompbox.dhs.org/~amymarie/page.htm

photo by Micheal Reilly

Comments on 'Never Forget':

it seemed that we needed a sort of prayer to keep us going, not a religious one, but a personal one to remind us of where we are and why. i have always looked to the constancy of the changing seasons as a source of comfort and stability amid seeming chaos.
- Amy Marie Keller

Some people left New York after the attacks. Amy Marie Keller’s song says simply; “Nothing could keep me away.I am fire and wind and I live here.”
- Suzanne Vega

'Never Forget'

[ mp3 sound clip ]

There's always fear at the harvest time
When the autumn breeze kicks in our hair
Something deep down keeps us walking though
At the edge of the Hudson, in the Jersey hills
(High in the air)

It's far more than fate that we're shivering
Looking hopeful to twilight and shadow dreams
Leaning back safe into memories
Where structure is still as it seems,
As it still ever seems

(chorus)
Nothing could keep me away
I am fire and wind and I live here
There is no better place than today
To sit in a circle and wait
For the winter so near

Patterns reach in and command us
Bring us to terms with the frost
The evening moon still understands us
Cradles our shoulders and whispers that
We have not lost

(chorus twice)