Lady in Waiting

From Solebello's 2020 "Stomping on Eggshells" album.

Bring me your tired, bring me your poor
Bring me your bruised, your invisible & your ignored
Bring me your hopeful, bring me your scared
Bring me your brilliant young minds and your underprepared
Em - Am - / C G D - ://

Bring me your lonely, bring me your blessed
Bring me your desperate, your overworked & underdressed
Bring me your rabbis, bring me your nuns
Bring me your fathers in search of their daughters & sons

I am still here & I am waiting
My flame is pale & thin, but I will let you in
Soon
G - Em - / F - C Cm / G - (Em - F D G -)
Bring me your feeble, bring me your strong
Bring me your poets & painters & workers-in-song
Bring me your teachers, bring me your guides
Bring me your healers of hearts & your turners of tides

(bridge) Come to me: I hear you calling
Winds are shifting, walls are falling
Em - C - / / Eb G C D - 

(closing choruses) I am still here & I am waiting
My flame is pale & thin, its light is growing dim
But it still burns right by the door
Come to me again. I will let you in
Soon
G - Em - / F - C Cm :// G - (Em - Am - D - G - )credits

- lyrics & music by Carolann Solebello
(c) author. All rights reserved.
  
Raised under the benevolent gaze of the Statue of Liberty, descendent of 20th-century immigrants Carolann Solebello has spent a lifetime comforted and amazed by that mighty woman with a torch. “Lady in Waiting” imagines her as poet Emma Lazarus did; the Mother of Exiles, guiding people from all walks of life and all corners of the earth to a new beginning in a new land. Though current political reality has kept many would-be Americans from passing through the “golden door,” still the Lady waits, lamp flickering in hopeful anticipation, promising, “Soon…”