“THE EAGLES DIDN’T COME BACK FOR AN ALBUM — THEY CAME BACK FOR A MOMENT.” After September 11, the Eagles returned to the studio with purpose, not nostalgia. Don Henley and Glenn Frey wrote a restrained, message-driven song, with Henley delivering a calm adult-contemporary vocal instead of the band’s ’70s country-rock tone. The arrangement was clean and direct, built for clarity and radio connection. Released in 2003 as a charity-focused single tied to relief efforts through the Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes Against Drunk Driving initiative, it stood outside the usual album cycle — more response than comeback. Later appearing on The Very Best Of, it remains one of the Eagles’ rare post-1979 studio recordings — a reminder that sometimes artists return simply because the moment asks them to.
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