It's a spare, haunting track that pairs those signature slightly melancholy vocals with the kind of piano and strings that immediately let you know you're listening to something special. But it's the lyrics, written and co-produced by Birdy herself, that will really get you. "I've tried to be open, but I've found it's hard when you're broken," she observes as the violins swell behind her voice. Yep, right in the feelings. On September 9, 1971, buses began to roll between Charlotte’s Black northwestern corner and Mecklenburg County’s lily-white suburbs. Almost immediately, the Black-white racial segregationindexin Charlotte schoolsplummeted But don't think that her new album is going to require tons of Kleenex. "It's an album about finding the light in the dark and becoming more confident with oneself," she says. And that optimistic outlook means we can't wait for the full album to drop next month.Related: “The first emotion I had was horror,” Mona Masood, a Philadelphia-area psychiatrist, says when reflecting on 9/11. “I remember praying fervently, ‘Please, God, don’t let them be Muslim.' But they claimed they were. And we would all be punished for it.” Masood, a child of Indian immigrants, and a sophomore in high school at the time, watched at school as the events unfolded.