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Carolann Solebello - LADY IN WAITING

from STOMPING ON EGGSHELLS by Chicks With Dip

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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…”

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LADY IN WAITING
Bring me your tired
Bring me your poor
Bring me your bruised, your invisible, and your ignored
Bring me your hopeful
Bring me your scared
Bring me your brilliant young minds and your underprepared

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

I am still here
and I am waiting
My flame is pale and thin
But I will let you in
Soon

Bring me your feeble
Bring me your strong
Bring me your poets and painters and workers-in-song
Bring me your teachers
Bring me your guides
Bring me your healers of hearts and your turners of tides

I am still here
and I am waiting
My flame is pale and thin
But I will let you in
Soon

Come to me. I hear you calling
Winds are shifting, walls are falling

I am still here
and I am waiting
My flame is pale and thin
Its light is growing dim

But it still burns
Right by the door
Come to me again
I will let you in
Soon

credits

from STOMPING ON EGGSHELLS, released October 15, 2020
Carolann Solebello: lead vocal, acoustic guitar, electric bass
Felix McKay Berube: keyboard
Cheryl Prashker: drums
Allison Tartalia: piano
Catherine Miles: harmony vocals
Allison Scola: clarinet
Meg Braun, Katherine Etzel, Elisa Peimer, Allison Scola, Aimee Van Dyne: choir vocals

Produced by Carolann Solebello
Mixed by Jay Mafale @ The Wind-Up Shop

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Chicks With Dip is an informal collective of female singer/songwriters who enjoy mutual respect, enjoy each other's company, and the pleasure of good conversation, good songs, and good dip. The Chicks have been meeting for over a decade.

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