beartalon- how right you are. I sent this to a friend, and told her that yesterday, after watching the inauguration, I had this song stuck in my head, all day....fitting, I think.
KaitainCPS, you are very right. Germany's war on the Eastern Front depleted much of its resources, else the war would have gone on longer. (A book on the White Rose resistance spoke of German losses and morale in these Russo wars)
Thought this song is so appropriate to the start of the Obama era.
The idea that the US entered the war just to do Britain a big favour is a fallacy. In truth, Germany declared war on the US, not vice versa, although Roosevelt was obviously geared up for it. But most of those who haven't studied WWII don't realise that the nation who really defeated Hitler, above any other, was the USSR. Even D-Day was something of a sideshow compared with Stalingrad, Kursk and Operation Bagration. Don't preach too much unless you're sure of your history.
True, but I have to say that when I watched this film recently I was shocked by:
a) How much Melanie Griffith looked like a real woman rather than a lingerie model, in a way that would probably not be possible in a Hollywood movie today (when she's in Harrison Ford's bed)
and
b) How much sexier she was than the aforementioned skinny minnies who seem so ubiquitous today.
after reading your comments you really are a twat ,not one itelligent response from you ,to be honest i think we would be better of with out our satallite country in tow ,im glad you are not related in any way to the british, but you are right in one thing ,englands twats are called the british goverment,and i agree with you there 100% also read history america and the uk have never been close its the bullshit poloticians which make it so
In the mid=80's, I worked in New York for six weeks and I swear there was a girl in our office that looked just like the Joan Cussack character. The hair, the eye make up, the accent,,,everything. That was New York in the 80's. They nailed it on the head. This song is the greatest. I've always loved it.
barjumbo, you have got it all wrong. Carly Simon has done some brilliant work in her career. Nobody does it better (from The spy who loved me) was okay but her finest work was the "No secrets" album and the work she did with Mick Macdonald on "Another passenger" (also with Libby Titus) and 'Boys in the trees" (also with Mike Macdonald).
I love Carly Simon. Her voice is unmistakeable. No one sound her sound. I can only imagine how beautiful she was at 25. She beauty isa unique as her voice. All her own. A stunning beauty.
Love this song, and love the movie, Working Girl. Yes, it's sad, that the twin towers are no longer there, and that 9/11 happened. Wish I could go back to the 80's sometimes, when we weren't hit by 9/11 terrorism yet. Sad, very sad, but it's reality now. But I guess the more important question is, what do we, or individuals do with the knowledge of 9/11 now that it has come to pass? What lesson have we learned, and what do we still have to learn?
Ah geez we are talking about wartime loans, LOL. without involving myself in your, well, forgive me for saying, pointless arguments, All I got to say is that the loan was awfully generous, at 2% fixed interest rate and 50 annual payments! I wish I could take out that kind of loan today. Sigh.
Wouldn't you agree that if America had not come into the war Britains chances of winning wouldv'e have diminished and nobody could then stop him taking over the whole of Europe not to mention getting his hands on jet engine technolgy. We had a job defeating him toghether do you really think come the 1950s say he wouldn't have his eyes on America and the whole world. He dreamt of world domination so really it was your duty as "Gods own country" to intervene, so you shouldn't have charged us.
We are the 4th biggest economy which isn't bad for a country of our size. So you gave us a loan we paid it back in full and one of the conditions of you helping us in the war was that we gave you the blueprints of how a jet engine works I don't need to tell you how important that was.
Any way I'm not Anti-American there is good and bad with every nation and we are supposed to be friends aren't we?
What do you mean since finding America what have we become, it was after finding you we went on to have the biggest empire the world has ever known which we only lost because we were weakned fighting an evil power called nazism how does that make us f**ked-up.
And what does the size of our country matter it doesn't make us inferior to anyone unless your inferior because your smaller than Russia, Australia and Canada
i suppose you forgot who founded america you twat it was the english ,also who took the brunt of the Nazis during ww2 ,the english so before you open your blow hole think of history ,america and england are close except for the small bunch of twats in both countrys
your feelings are, " twin towers were hideous", and you want me to respect your feelings? your feelings are that people shouldn't be nostalgic about something they loved and miss, and don't want them to be hopeful? you want me to respect that? you want people to feel how the people who died were feeling at the moment of their death, and you want me to respect that?
there is freedom of speech, and then there is being an inconsiderate prick, which you are.
You don't care to imagine what people were feeling before they lost their lives. YOU are the pitifully sick one in this argument. The victims are not even people to you. They are all one now, with your fucking towers. You've claimed INDIVIDUALS for your own agenda, for your sick self regarding sense of patriotism. Go to hell.
yet another proof of your mental sickness and your pathetic, presumptuous being, and your ridiculous self-defensive acts after stating something as execrable as calling the twin towers horrendous ( or is the covetousness that you are unsuccessfully trying to hide by your noxious philosophy, and by questioning one's position and the status of patriotism.) you are a sad, bitter little Brit who just isn't capable of comprehending simple nostalgia and memories that normal people are accustomed to.
normal people would understand that they were not just the towers. I don't know what it is? The infamous jealousy and animosity that the Brits are known to feel towards Americans, or is that you people don't really have anything to be nostalgic about in your tiny Island country. One thing I do know is that as Americans, we remember 9/11. we remember the people who died, and remember what was destroyed in our homeland, but we move on because in America, life goes on.
You just sit there in the sad little bubble of yours, with your assumptions and your venom for American and its fallen icons, and just as well be damned to hell because as it is, your life already seems like it. you are lucky that you are not physically here, near me, because if you were here, and questioned my patriotism, you would get the answer which would be hard to forget and would prevent you in the future to question a true American's patriotism, you miserable fool. now bugger off.
the simple fact that you would post your poisoned thoughts on this video shows that you need some serious help or have nothing better to do than trying to spread your bullshit philosophy about how everyone should be miserable simply because you are mentally sick. but like arminhank said, people dont buy into your asshole philosophies. people want to be happy, and that is what you failed to respect. piss off.
Random fact...my third grade teacher had 2 sons in the St. Thomas Boys Choir (of New York) who sang the background vocal on "Let the River Run" so I have 3 degrees of separation from Carly Simon, Melanie Griffith, Joan Cusack AND Harrison Ford.
When the need to see the beautiful Trade Towers occurs, I watch "Working Girl" The evil ones stole so many from us as well as my now-never-celebrated birthday...I WILL NEVER FORGET, I PROMISE !!
Although this song is really great, and would be a wonderful choice at the inauguration, I would imagine folks would start singing "We Shall Overcome" instead.
"Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation Come, the New Jerusalem.Silver cities rise,the morning lights the streets that lead them and sirens call them on with a song. It's asking for the taking trembling
shaking. Oh, my heart is aching,We're coming to the edge,running on the water,coming through the fog,your sons and daughters
yeah, the video would be just fine if it was only Carly, and they left the movie clips out of it. they aren't really connected to the song, and with the WTC in the backgroud, they actually kind of take away from it.
yeah, the video would be just fine if it was only Carly, and they left the movie clips out of it.
I humbly disagree. I lived in New York during the 80's. This song brings out the essence of those times. The freedom, the spirit of 80's new york. The World trade center was an integral part of New York city culture. It was a symbol that represented the greatness of the city and it's people. I am honored to have walked ( many times ) through it's hallways.
I think it's incredibly touching to see the Twin Towers in the background of such a powerful anthem. it gives me shivers still, because this song is all about re-birth, and isn't that what we're trying to do after that terrible, horrible day? and, I'll be honest, it gives me tears, too. every time. I can't listen to it that often, but I love it.
I think it's incredibly touching to see the Twin Towers in the background of such a powerful anthem. it gives me shivers still, because this song is all about re-birth, and isn't that what we're trying to do after that terrible, horrible day?
I have never gotten to see NY as an adult or when it had a twin tower. I was a baby when my family went there. What's more touching is to see the lights on in one of the pics. To me, it represents life going on inside the building, when it was filmed so many years ago.This song is really about a new day, a new city, a new Jerusalem will rise. What ever the terrorists think out there, they are never going to destroy God's children/ people. A new day is coming in the future, but in God's time.
In New York, everything is about hopes and dreams. Everyday is a new day in this great metropolis. Those monsters may have destroyed the towers, but they will never be able to shake this great city and its residents.
I happen to think the Towers were hideous. We shouldn't start glorifying buildings over the people who died in them. You really think the innocents who died there would have wanted to even be in those buildings? No, they wanted to be out of them, at home, in a safe haven.
Also, it's a brazen assumption to think that huge cities, especially in these times of indulgence and excess even in the wake of recession are the key to hopes, dreams and happiness.
It figures. You are from Britain, hence this nasty, asshole comment. I was wondering, what American would be so bitter and depressed to talk like the way you do. Do us a favor, and shut your pie hole up. If you have nothing nice to say, then zip it. We loved the twin towers, and we love our city. so shhhh...
I'm not bitter, just distraught that people had to die and be martyred in THERE, in those towers - you see them , you think of virility, success and power. I see them, and think of a veritable death trap.
when we look at them, we remember them as the symbol of the freedom and an icon of the free world that was attacked. You will never understand that it had become fabric of our lives. people have memories and nostalgia about those towers, and you have to be a goddamn robot to not feel that nostalgia. yes, people died there, but memories didn't. this country is our home and if a part of your home is destroyed or taken away, you just cant simply forget about it. you remember what you loved abot it.
fair enough. I understand that completely... but think to yourself, when all those people were crowding at the windows gasping for air, they were beyond desperate to be out of there and probably CURSED the buildings, built so stupidly high that the possibility of being rescued and safe was impossible.
like I said, if everyone had these deep and depressing thoughts and assumptions of what the people who were dying were saying and thinking, this world would be ever more miserable than it already this. why do we have to think and assume what people thought when they were dying? I am sure they didn't want us to be depressed thinking about their pain. they would want us to recall pleasant memories to cheerish, not some bullshit about why the tower was build so high.
Actually, I am sure they would have wanted the world to know exactly what they went through. It's a quality which may be alien to you - it's called being human.
its funny how you should be talking about being human. real humans dont try to make other humans sad and miserable. real humans respect other people's feelings and value their memories, which you clearly aren't capable of. well you keep questioning why the building was so high, and I am going to remember my friend who worked there. I am going to remember what happened, and I am going to remember those towers. people who died would want us to live.
you need to lighten up, or at least keep you depressing, troubling thoughts to yourself. dont be an inconsiderate asshole, because people have memories of this place, and if you don't respect their feelings, then you need some serious help.
Lighten up? We're talking about a tragedy aren't we? I won't keep feed into your obsession with glorifying those buildings, nearly three thousand lives are worth so much more than them.
we were moving on with our lives, trying to put the tragedy in the past, because you dont kill yourself over something terrible that happened, or you become a depressed maniac, which you apparently are. I have lost a friend in those towers, but if he was alive, he wouldn't want me to be talking about the tragedy, thats the kinda man he was.
What we need is to take up a collection and get a Witch Doctor to raise Oswald from the dead to bust a cap in that leftwing scumbag Obama's black ass.
Ah hell, I'm sure some live patriot will eventually take out the garbage anyway.
A wonderful song and a hilarious movie - but my heart aches seeing the towers of the World Trade Center (at the very beginning, and lit up at 2:40). God bless those who lost their lives on that day.
Zionist? Well first of all, Carly is half Jewish. But you entirely miss the point. She is not singing about Jerusalem, she is singing about New York, about it's own siren call to young people. This is an amazing song and I wish Obama would use it as part of his campaign...for us older uncool voters. Oh hell, he uses Stevie Wonder, Springsteen and Billy Joel, all from my time. :) But this song is so beautiful when sung like a church song.
I love this song. There is an spanish singer called Rosa, who won the first edition of the "Spanish Idol or Operación Triunfo". She is one of the best voices of Spain, but she doesn't have the success that she deserves. You can look for others versions like "I have nothing" or "Something". For me it's incredible
This song is so wonderful. I'm a asst at my job. So, I totally feel the pain lol. It also reminds me of barack obama winning the election this year. OBAMA 08
This song makes me want to put on a dress with shoulder pads and a pair of nice pumps and go out there and defeat all of those sexist yuppies... This is odd since I am a dude.
This video is very energizing yet sad with the World Trade Center as the backdrop. This video is very special to me because of this. But at times it is like watching a home movie -- and remembering 9-11 -- you just want to warn those people in the lit up windows to get the hell out!!!
That heartless ghoul Rudy Guiliani put the the rescue communications department in the SAME tower that was first struck in the mid-'90s. All so it could benefit him personally financially. The implosion is the work of the U.S. gov.
it is a beautiful song. but does reek a bit of facism.... I am tired of the left for years calling the Right Facists.. when Facism was a LEFT idea... and still is
get out all the time.. do you? have you listened to the awe inspiring songs of the Nazis? Did you know that THE NEW JERUSALEM was a code word in the 1930s for American Facists.. for their Utopia?
I post today On September 12, to 8 years of the terrorist attack and this song it is also a small honoring to New York, especially, seeing to the beginning of the video the Twin Towers.
Escribo esto hoy 12 de Septiembre, a 8 años del ataque terrorista y esta canción es también un pequeño homenaje a New York, sobre todo, viendo al inicio del vídeo las Torres Gemelas.
Esta película y esta canción cambió mi vida, es mi pelicula de culto y cdo estoy de bajona , la veo , me encanta , me fascina y desde luego , el tema sigue tan vigente como lo fue en su época, GRACIAS
'The film and the singer (are?) my life, it's my (favourite?) film and I (dance?) to the video, I love it, I'm fascinated and after it finishes, .... THANKYOU' the rest I can't get lol :)
beartalon- how right you are. I sent this to a friend, and told her that yesterday, after watching the inauguration, I had this song stuck in my head, all day....fitting, I think.
Eurobiker1 3 years ago
I think that this is a good song for the hope that was inspired by the 2009 US Presidential Inauguration.
beartalon 3 years ago
KaitainCPS, you are very right. Germany's war on the Eastern Front depleted much of its resources, else the war would have gone on longer. (A book on the White Rose resistance spoke of German losses and morale in these Russo wars)
Thought this song is so appropriate to the start of the Obama era.
lensgypsy 3 years ago
The idea that the US entered the war just to do Britain a big favour is a fallacy. In truth, Germany declared war on the US, not vice versa, although Roosevelt was obviously geared up for it. But most of those who haven't studied WWII don't realise that the nation who really defeated Hitler, above any other, was the USSR. Even D-Day was something of a sideshow compared with Stalingrad, Kursk and Operation Bagration. Don't preach too much unless you're sure of your history.
KaitainCPS 3 years ago 2
the song is far better without the dreadful 80's big haired girls all over the place.
and carly is the only one of them that looks really timeless.
swampzoid 3 years ago
True, but I have to say that when I watched this film recently I was shocked by:
a) How much Melanie Griffith looked like a real woman rather than a lingerie model, in a way that would probably not be possible in a Hollywood movie today (when she's in Harrison Ford's bed)
and
b) How much sexier she was than the aforementioned skinny minnies who seem so ubiquitous today.
KaitainCPS 3 years ago
New York = New Jerusalem
davidgrahamscott 3 years ago
Wow, I sang this for awards night in the second grade. I love this song.
lexicuti4eva 3 years ago
Just enjoy the music it always take me back way back :)
goannamannor 3 years ago
after reading your comments you really are a twat ,not one itelligent response from you ,to be honest i think we would be better of with out our satallite country in tow ,im glad you are not related in any way to the british, but you are right in one thing ,englands twats are called the british goverment,and i agree with you there 100% also read history america and the uk have never been close its the bullshit poloticians which make it so
2dg57 3 years ago
In the mid=80's, I worked in New York for six weeks and I swear there was a girl in our office that looked just like the Joan Cussack character. The hair, the eye make up, the accent,,,everything. That was New York in the 80's. They nailed it on the head. This song is the greatest. I've always loved it.
criticalgal 3 years ago
barjumbo, you have got it all wrong. Carly Simon has done some brilliant work in her career. Nobody does it better (from The spy who loved me) was okay but her finest work was the "No secrets" album and the work she did with Mick Macdonald on "Another passenger" (also with Libby Titus) and 'Boys in the trees" (also with Mike Macdonald).
zapkvr 3 years ago
i was born right before it came out so i saw it much later but it was def a funny good movie
jerzkid87 3 years ago
did u ever see working girl? its great
jerzkid87 3 years ago 2
she spanking
laydi333 3 years ago
haha! im singing this in choir! :) lol
hottbab326 3 years ago
I love Carly Simon. Her voice is unmistakeable. No one sound her sound. I can only imagine how beautiful she was at 25. She beauty isa unique as her voice. All her own. A stunning beauty.
bruzerkjm69 3 years ago
O M G.. theres alot of big ass hair in this video hehe.. great song ! carly simon rocks
primaten81 3 years ago 2
Love this song, and love the movie, Working Girl. Yes, it's sad, that the twin towers are no longer there, and that 9/11 happened. Wish I could go back to the 80's sometimes, when we weren't hit by 9/11 terrorism yet. Sad, very sad, but it's reality now. But I guess the more important question is, what do we, or individuals do with the knowledge of 9/11 now that it has come to pass? What lesson have we learned, and what do we still have to learn?
buffalocrotch 3 years ago
Carly did THREE, GREAT things, in, her career.
Firstly, she sang the theme tune to 'The Spy Who Loved Me.'
Secondly, she sang 'Coming Around Again.'
Then, she did this song - which, I'll love, til the day I die!
A,REALLY, REALLY, INSPIRATIONAL song!
barjumbo1969 3 years ago
"Lucie Vondráčková - Láska umí víc"..diferrent version!!...
barys9 3 years ago
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someone should make a 9/11 video to this song. It would be quite powerful i think.
AdArmand 3 years ago
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the opening shot 'We're coming to the edge, running on the water...' brings to mind the planes approaching the buildings.
AdArmand 3 years ago
I know we didn't discover you that was Christopher Columbus and he wasn't British so if thats what the other fella said then he's wrong.
sigmaman93 3 years ago
Ah geez we are talking about wartime loans, LOL. without involving myself in your, well, forgive me for saying, pointless arguments, All I got to say is that the loan was awfully generous, at 2% fixed interest rate and 50 annual payments! I wish I could take out that kind of loan today. Sigh.
iakny 3 years ago
Wouldn't you agree that if America had not come into the war Britains chances of winning wouldv'e have diminished and nobody could then stop him taking over the whole of Europe not to mention getting his hands on jet engine technolgy. We had a job defeating him toghether do you really think come the 1950s say he wouldn't have his eyes on America and the whole world. He dreamt of world domination so really it was your duty as "Gods own country" to intervene, so you shouldn't have charged us.
sigmaman93 3 years ago
We are the 4th biggest economy which isn't bad for a country of our size. So you gave us a loan we paid it back in full and one of the conditions of you helping us in the war was that we gave you the blueprints of how a jet engine works I don't need to tell you how important that was.
Any way I'm not Anti-American there is good and bad with every nation and we are supposed to be friends aren't we?
sigmaman93 3 years ago
It's Asking for the Taking... Wake The Nation !
CANCERcanstopNOW 3 years ago
What do you mean since finding America what have we become, it was after finding you we went on to have the biggest empire the world has ever known which we only lost because we were weakned fighting an evil power called nazism how does that make us f**ked-up.
And what does the size of our country matter it doesn't make us inferior to anyone unless your inferior because your smaller than Russia, Australia and Canada
sigmaman93 3 years ago
LOVE Carly. The Best Blessed 2009 All : )
CANCERcanstopNOW 3 years ago 3
i suppose you forgot who founded america you twat it was the english ,also who took the brunt of the Nazis during ww2 ,the english so before you open your blow hole think of history ,america and england are close except for the small bunch of twats in both countrys
2dg57 3 years ago
This is to supernaturalist9 are you a complete twat or do you have to practice ,i think reading your reply you have become top of your class
2dg57 3 years ago
And have the Brits gotten over the July 2007 attacks? NO!
N750AN 3 years ago 2
Great song! Totally weird shoulder pads
DevaRupa 3 years ago
It's the 80s!
pearlchye 3 years ago
i love Carly but this is a typical BAD american song...Simon would say NO NO NO
smrflight 3 years ago
bad song in your opinion. This is a pretty good song.
iakny 3 years ago
Does anyone remember when the Post Office used this song after 9/11? I hardly think about "Working Girl" or the 80's when I hear this.
blackghost263 3 years ago
Carly's shoulder pads are also horrendous.
AdArmand 3 years ago
661st!
mrovito604 3 years ago
"real humans respect other people's feelings" - well, you have trouble respecting mine? Keep whitewashing, friend. Knock yourself out.
AdArmand 3 years ago
your feelings are, " twin towers were hideous", and you want me to respect your feelings? your feelings are that people shouldn't be nostalgic about something they loved and miss, and don't want them to be hopeful? you want me to respect that? you want people to feel how the people who died were feeling at the moment of their death, and you want me to respect that?
there is freedom of speech, and then there is being an inconsiderate prick, which you are.
iakny 3 years ago
You don't care to imagine what people were feeling before they lost their lives. YOU are the pitifully sick one in this argument. The victims are not even people to you. They are all one now, with your fucking towers. You've claimed INDIVIDUALS for your own agenda, for your sick self regarding sense of patriotism. Go to hell.
AdArmand 3 years ago
yet another proof of your mental sickness and your pathetic, presumptuous being, and your ridiculous self-defensive acts after stating something as execrable as calling the twin towers horrendous ( or is the covetousness that you are unsuccessfully trying to hide by your noxious philosophy, and by questioning one's position and the status of patriotism.) you are a sad, bitter little Brit who just isn't capable of comprehending simple nostalgia and memories that normal people are accustomed to.
iakny 3 years ago
normal people would understand that they were not just the towers. I don't know what it is? The infamous jealousy and animosity that the Brits are known to feel towards Americans, or is that you people don't really have anything to be nostalgic about in your tiny Island country. One thing I do know is that as Americans, we remember 9/11. we remember the people who died, and remember what was destroyed in our homeland, but we move on because in America, life goes on.
iakny 3 years ago
You just sit there in the sad little bubble of yours, with your assumptions and your venom for American and its fallen icons, and just as well be damned to hell because as it is, your life already seems like it. you are lucky that you are not physically here, near me, because if you were here, and questioned my patriotism, you would get the answer which would be hard to forget and would prevent you in the future to question a true American's patriotism, you miserable fool. now bugger off.
iakny 3 years ago
You are hilarious!
AdArmand 3 years ago
the simple fact that you would post your poisoned thoughts on this video shows that you need some serious help or have nothing better to do than trying to spread your bullshit philosophy about how everyone should be miserable simply because you are mentally sick. but like arminhank said, people dont buy into your asshole philosophies. people want to be happy, and that is what you failed to respect. piss off.
iakny 3 years ago
if you see three of the same posts by me, sorry about that, cuz youtube isnt working properly.
iakny 3 years ago
Random fact...my third grade teacher had 2 sons in the St. Thomas Boys Choir (of New York) who sang the background vocal on "Let the River Run" so I have 3 degrees of separation from Carly Simon, Melanie Griffith, Joan Cusack AND Harrison Ford.
katfallon 3 years ago
Great movie, and love this song, Carly Simon rocks!
buffalocrotch 3 years ago 3
Serious Mojo in this wonderful song. Sea It ?
It's asking for the TAKING... Hear That ???
CHRISTSmusiciansSEA 3 years ago
Harrison Ford owned the 80s.
iakny 3 years ago
like Tom Hanks owned the 90s.
iakny 3 years ago
AND I SHALL HAVE THE 10s!!!
No1RobLoweFan 3 years ago
singing this song in chorus its amazin!
petgirl123321 3 years ago 2
It sounds so much better with male voices; we did it too.
CozImSoJedi 3 years ago
Carly Simon
N750AN 3 years ago
from blueeaglesmom
When the need to see the beautiful Trade Towers occurs, I watch "Working Girl" The evil ones stole so many from us as well as my now-never-celebrated birthday...I WILL NEVER FORGET, I PROMISE !!
blueagle84 3 years ago
Our current economy turns this beautiful song very sad indeed.
2cats0dogs 3 years ago
True. Music Heals. Sing/Play Loud. Psalms 33
CHRISTSmusiciansSEA 3 years ago
New Jerusalem = New York.
iakny 3 years ago
Great Song. Music Heals... You
CHRISTSmusiciansSEA 3 years ago
the big hair makes this video haha
Officefreak22 3 years ago
Ahh the 80's, the golden age of big hair =P
Fish880 3 years ago
However, I am always proud to be a New Yorker. To me, New York is the greatest city on the face of this planet.
iakny 3 years ago
Harrison Ford is awesome!
iakny 3 years ago 2
WTC :(
omotylah 3 years ago
I heard this song used a 9-11 memeorial service...it's also known as "The Wall Street Hymn"
skewlboypin 3 years ago
Although this song is really great, and would be a wonderful choice at the inauguration, I would imagine folks would start singing "We Shall Overcome" instead.
vwsmusic 3 years ago
Inspiring....
Alvin4NY 3 years ago
Awesome song....hugely catchy!
Working Girl was amazing..one of the best movies of the 80s!!
NatSci 3 years ago
"Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation Come, the New Jerusalem.Silver cities rise,the morning lights the streets that lead them and sirens call them on with a song. It's asking for the taking trembling
shaking. Oh, my heart is aching,We're coming to the edge,running on the water,coming through the fog,your sons and daughters
We the great and small,stand on a star
and blaze a trail of desire
through the darkening dawn...
Beautiful words for all!
mjg355 3 years ago
yeah, the video would be just fine if it was only Carly, and they left the movie clips out of it. they aren't really connected to the song, and with the WTC in the backgroud, they actually kind of take away from it.
canadianfreespirit 3 years ago
canadianfreespirit
yeah, the video would be just fine if it was only Carly, and they left the movie clips out of it.
I humbly disagree. I lived in New York during the 80's. This song brings out the essence of those times. The freedom, the spirit of 80's new york. The World trade center was an integral part of New York city culture. It was a symbol that represented the greatness of the city and it's people. I am honored to have walked ( many times ) through it's hallways.
darkmorpheus31 3 years ago
its a shame, that I live on Long Island, and I have never been to the WTC. I wish I did.
iakny 3 years ago
was she ever?
83402911 3 years ago
Ahhhh.....Back when Melanie Griffith was hot.
Htown46 3 years ago
I think it's incredibly touching to see the Twin Towers in the background of such a powerful anthem. it gives me shivers still, because this song is all about re-birth, and isn't that what we're trying to do after that terrible, horrible day? and, I'll be honest, it gives me tears, too. every time. I can't listen to it that often, but I love it.
God Bless Us All.
canadianfreespirit 3 years ago
canadianfreespirit
I think it's incredibly touching to see the Twin Towers in the background of such a powerful anthem. it gives me shivers still, because this song is all about re-birth, and isn't that what we're trying to do after that terrible, horrible day?
agreed
darkmorpheus31 3 years ago
I have never gotten to see NY as an adult or when it had a twin tower. I was a baby when my family went there. What's more touching is to see the lights on in one of the pics. To me, it represents life going on inside the building, when it was filmed so many years ago.This song is really about a new day, a new city, a new Jerusalem will rise. What ever the terrorists think out there, they are never going to destroy God's children/ people. A new day is coming in the future, but in God's time.
Thia7777 3 years ago 2
In New York, everything is about hopes and dreams. Everyday is a new day in this great metropolis. Those monsters may have destroyed the towers, but they will never be able to shake this great city and its residents.
iakny 3 years ago
I happen to think the Towers were hideous. We shouldn't start glorifying buildings over the people who died in them. You really think the innocents who died there would have wanted to even be in those buildings? No, they wanted to be out of them, at home, in a safe haven.
Also, it's a brazen assumption to think that huge cities, especially in these times of indulgence and excess even in the wake of recession are the key to hopes, dreams and happiness.
AdArmand 3 years ago
It figures. You are from Britain, hence this nasty, asshole comment. I was wondering, what American would be so bitter and depressed to talk like the way you do. Do us a favor, and shut your pie hole up. If you have nothing nice to say, then zip it. We loved the twin towers, and we love our city. so shhhh...
iakny 3 years ago
I'm not bitter, just distraught that people had to die and be martyred in THERE, in those towers - you see them , you think of virility, success and power. I see them, and think of a veritable death trap.
AdArmand 3 years ago
when we look at them, we remember them as the symbol of the freedom and an icon of the free world that was attacked. You will never understand that it had become fabric of our lives. people have memories and nostalgia about those towers, and you have to be a goddamn robot to not feel that nostalgia. yes, people died there, but memories didn't. this country is our home and if a part of your home is destroyed or taken away, you just cant simply forget about it. you remember what you loved abot it.
iakny 3 years ago
fair enough. I understand that completely... but think to yourself, when all those people were crowding at the windows gasping for air, they were beyond desperate to be out of there and probably CURSED the buildings, built so stupidly high that the possibility of being rescued and safe was impossible.
AdArmand 3 years ago
like I said, if everyone had these deep and depressing thoughts and assumptions of what the people who were dying were saying and thinking, this world would be ever more miserable than it already this. why do we have to think and assume what people thought when they were dying? I am sure they didn't want us to be depressed thinking about their pain. they would want us to recall pleasant memories to cheerish, not some bullshit about why the tower was build so high.
iakny 3 years ago
Actually, I am sure they would have wanted the world to know exactly what they went through. It's a quality which may be alien to you - it's called being human.
AdArmand 3 years ago
its funny how you should be talking about being human. real humans dont try to make other humans sad and miserable. real humans respect other people's feelings and value their memories, which you clearly aren't capable of. well you keep questioning why the building was so high, and I am going to remember my friend who worked there. I am going to remember what happened, and I am going to remember those towers. people who died would want us to live.
iakny 3 years ago
you need to lighten up, or at least keep you depressing, troubling thoughts to yourself. dont be an inconsiderate asshole, because people have memories of this place, and if you don't respect their feelings, then you need some serious help.
iakny 3 years ago
Lighten up? We're talking about a tragedy aren't we? I won't keep feed into your obsession with glorifying those buildings, nearly three thousand lives are worth so much more than them.
AdArmand 3 years ago
we were moving on with our lives, trying to put the tragedy in the past, because you dont kill yourself over something terrible that happened, or you become a depressed maniac, which you apparently are. I have lost a friend in those towers, but if he was alive, he wouldn't want me to be talking about the tragedy, thats the kinda man he was.
iakny 3 years ago
wonderful song and singer but so sad to see the trade center in the fog.
takamowa 3 years ago
great song!!
phdtourist127 3 years ago
Carly is my hero, would lose one of my digits to see her play live, shame she suffers stage fright, LOVE HER!
Pinkmart1 3 years ago
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What we need is to take up a collection and get a Witch Doctor to raise Oswald from the dead to bust a cap in that leftwing scumbag Obama's black ass.
Ah hell, I'm sure some live patriot will eventually take out the garbage anyway.
houstonsatyr 3 years ago
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OMG you are too funny. I totally agree with you.
catsmeow33 3 years ago
and I hope the secret service reads both these postings.
have a nice day.
jmar1371 3 years ago
oh jmar1371 shut up and grow up, I just thought it was funny.
catsmeow33 3 years ago
The Secret Service can read all they like - and act all they like. But if they get ambitious, it won't bring 2-3-5 or more of them back to life.
houstonsatyr 3 years ago
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President Elect Barack Hussein Obama. :-)
Congratulations on making history and all the best to you and your family in your quest for REAL change!!!!!!!!!!
fuckpossible 3 years ago
super song, to go with a great film
spursupp 3 years ago 4
This song is so inspirational; it would be a nice theme song for the new positive world order we all crave and need!!
MisterLovejoy 3 years ago
Esta canción es genial! Te anima a luchar en el día a día y te sube los ánimos!
This song is awesome! It gives you the mood to work day after day trying to achieve more and more objectives and also makes you stronger!
veigvideos 3 years ago
A wonderful song and a hilarious movie - but my heart aches seeing the towers of the World Trade Center (at the very beginning, and lit up at 2:40). God bless those who lost their lives on that day.
NatureGirl62 3 years ago 4
She is THE BEST. Always. Who else had that voice? Who else wrote those songs?
jjarndyce 3 years ago
Asta, copii, vedeam la "video", pe cand...
viril1954 3 years ago
I love the working girl!!! and of course Carly Simons.
google2com 3 years ago
j'adore carly simon!
tweetiepie1894 3 years ago
Both the movie and the song warm my " Big Apple " heart and make me homesick.
CoolBreeze149 3 years ago
gran canción
bruisermist 3 years ago
me encanta es ta peli, y la cancion es increible
rhydy 3 years ago
mine too, in fall 2001. ( high school )
iakny 3 years ago
New York City and Corporate America in the 80's. Fascinating.
iakny 3 years ago
God bless the big hair of the 80's
wizsoft 3 years ago 3
they used a shortened version of this in a post 9/11 postal service ad, it was actually pretty touching
willsl321 3 years ago
This is a beautiful song
realmclennyd 3 years ago
yay for big eighties hair !
raggyrat6 3 years ago
I love Carly. But not so much this song. The imagery is far to Zionist for me.
Peace to all.
Be well.
jannyNrusty 3 years ago
Zionist? Well first of all, Carly is half Jewish. But you entirely miss the point. She is not singing about Jerusalem, she is singing about New York, about it's own siren call to young people. This is an amazing song and I wish Obama would use it as part of his campaign...for us older uncool voters. Oh hell, he uses Stevie Wonder, Springsteen and Billy Joel, all from my time. :) But this song is so beautiful when sung like a church song.
DAVIDSILVERCA 3 years ago
I love this song. There is an spanish singer called Rosa, who won the first edition of the "Spanish Idol or Operación Triunfo". She is one of the best voices of Spain, but she doesn't have the success that she deserves. You can look for others versions like "I have nothing" or "Something". For me it's incredible
luismivicente2 3 years ago
This song is so wonderful. I'm a asst at my job. So, I totally feel the pain lol. It also reminds me of barack obama winning the election this year. OBAMA 08
lindslovesgh 3 years ago
I agree, makes me think of Obama too. More than Sign Sealed, Delivered, though I love Stevie too.
DAVIDSILVERCA 3 years ago
This song makes me want to put on a dress with shoulder pads and a pair of nice pumps and go out there and defeat all of those sexist yuppies... This is odd since I am a dude.
Gilch30 3 years ago 9
LOL....do it anyway!
tuneaddicted 3 years ago
we're doing this in chior too!
wicked1481 3 years ago
we are also doing this for choir
shadowlurk72 3 years ago
buh-bye, twin towers. :-(
the lobby scenes were shot there. damn you, rudy g.!!!!
fuckpossible 3 years ago
we r singing this song in chior...
gocomets1 3 years ago
Seems more like a "theme" song than a "real" song...
siasti 3 years ago
Were singing this song for best foot forward
goole123456789101112 3 years ago
There are many ways for a person to allow oneself to become victimized. Very inspirational to both women AND men.
Thanks for posting this!
VinDcator 3 years ago
Absolutely Fabulous !!!
bertiemarmite 3 years ago 2
Kevin Spacey in 1:06
Tuco82 3 years ago
uhuhuuuuu \o/
loneangel13 3 years ago
Hi! Yes, I found the CD. It was quite difficult, especially here in France, but it does exist and I have it!
OursonVolant 3 years ago 2
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McCain/Palin 2008! )
frphilipmullen 3 years ago
wht albume is this from?
izzyfwiend25 3 years ago
Carly i luv this song!
izzyfwiend25 3 years ago
i luv this osng this is my 6th 7th and 8th grade chior song so all those grades(i'm in 6th) sing this osng all together at the end of our concert!
izzyfwiend25 3 years ago
This video is very energizing yet sad with the World Trade Center as the backdrop. This video is very special to me because of this. But at times it is like watching a home movie -- and remembering 9-11 -- you just want to warn those people in the lit up windows to get the hell out!!!
sisteramator 3 years ago 2
Who do you reckon could fit more stuff into their mouth... Carly Simon or Steven Tyler?
Johneyreacko 3 years ago
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I'd like to try fitting my junk into her mouth!
minicopilot 3 years ago
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I think I can speak for everyone when I say... We all, would like to try that ;)
Johneyreacko 3 years ago
LOL! Yeah man, she is smokin hot, even to this day!
minicopilot 3 years ago 2
Steve Tyler for sure. He looks like a monkey.
JMR83 3 years ago
I loved this song when I was a kid and would listen to it over and over again. =>
Lasorna 3 years ago 2
this was from Working Girl, right?
have always liked the song
girllovesmusic 3 years ago 2
George bush might be a 'corporatist' but Obama is the Facist in this election...
INMYSCOPE 3 years ago
That heartless ghoul Rudy Guiliani put the the rescue communications department in the SAME tower that was first struck in the mid-'90s. All so it could benefit him personally financially. The implosion is the work of the U.S. gov.
fuckpossible 3 years ago
it is a beautiful song. but does reek a bit of facism.... I am tired of the left for years calling the Right Facists.. when Facism was a LEFT idea... and still is
zenbuckaroo 3 years ago
"Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation."
Sounds a bit facist to me too.Populism and NATIIONALISM were very useful tools of both Mussolini and Adolph.
zenbuckaroo 3 years ago
get out all the time.. do you? have you listened to the awe inspiring songs of the Nazis? Did you know that THE NEW JERUSALEM was a code word in the 1930s for American Facists.. for their Utopia?
INMYSCOPE 3 years ago
thanks... it is so inspiring... I feel like Dr. Strangelove who cannot keep his hand down.
INMYSCOPE 3 years ago
that is very funny.. I love that movie. Always thought Dr. Strangelove reminded me of Dr. Kissinger.
zenbuckaroo 3 years ago
Se llama "Armas de mujer" está protagonizada por Melanie Griffith , Sigourney Weber y Harrison Ford , la version en inglés es Working Girls
molpro 3 years ago
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Beautiful Facist song. As great as any the Nazis produced in the 1930s. Uplifting and makes one want to join the 'bundle of sticks' altogether.
INMYSCOPE 3 years ago
This song making being an office-worker doesnt seem that bad.
fixinah 3 years ago
It does make me think of Sept 11 as well and I remember the US Postal service using the song in a tribute comercial
hthierry 3 years ago
I post today On September 12, to 8 years of the terrorist attack and this song it is also a small honoring to New York, especially, seeing to the beginning of the video the Twin Towers.
beto2768 3 years ago 2
Escribo esto hoy 12 de Septiembre, a 8 años del ataque terrorista y esta canción es también un pequeño homenaje a New York, sobre todo, viendo al inicio del vídeo las Torres Gemelas.
beto2768 3 years ago
let the river run...
gonfina1989 3 years ago
Esta película y esta canción cambió mi vida, es mi pelicula de culto y cdo estoy de bajona , la veo , me encanta , me fascina y desde luego , el tema sigue tan vigente como lo fue en su época, GRACIAS
molpro 3 years ago
'The film and the singer (are?) my life, it's my (favourite?) film and I (dance?) to the video, I love it, I'm fascinated and after it finishes, .... THANKYOU' the rest I can't get lol :)
Good video =] Muy bien.
CozImSoJedi 3 years ago
como se llama la pelicula la quiero ver poirque la cancion me necahnta
HaColzn 3 years ago
se llama Working Girl... :)
Dubber87 3 years ago
Isn't she lovely? I love this song! Regards from Argentina.
SabriDelgado 3 years ago
thank you!!!!!!!!!
professora22 3 years ago
we're singing this song for my chorus class
and i am so glad she picked this song =)
I love it
hoping i get one of the solos
GOD BLESS YOU AND THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO!!
jeiryn15 3 years ago
she doesn't age at all doesn't she ??????????
henrysinaga 3 years ago