Mother Of Exiles letra

You might be different
You might be strange
Probably come
From some other place
You dress pretty funny
An' what an odd name
Why don't you go back
From wherever you came

Give me your tired
Give me your poor
The wretched refuse
Of your teeming shore
Send these, the homeless
To our golden door
But does the mother of exiles
Shine anymore?

They came from the north
The south, east and west
We welcomed them sometimes
And near-passed the test
But those differences
That we might celebrate
Seemed to challenge our power
And made us irate
It seemed competition
To who we'd become
It was never an issue
‘Cause we always won

The broken, the orphans
Returning vets
Minority people
And the tribes that are left
The foreigner, addict
And those we don't like
They boil up our fears
Challenged our way of life
To share became odious
Taxing us raw
Enough is enough
We ain't open no more

Does the mother of exiles
Matter anymore?

Glenn Kaiser - Letras

• Ain't Much Difference
• All My Days
• Carolina Moon
• Changin' Wind
• Choked Up
• Come Before The Lord
• Come Behold
• Communion Song
• Country Mile
• Educated Guess
• Everybody Understands The Blues
• Fake
• Fuss & Moan
• God In Sky Above
• Gonna Meet You At The Station
• Great Again
• Higher Ground
• Hold Me
• Holy Spirit, Move In Me
• Homesick Blues
• I Bow
• I Forgive You
• I Hear Talk
• If I Leave This World Tomorrow
• In My Younger Days
• In The Soul Of a Man
• Long Way From My Home
• Lord Of The Wind And The Waves
• Loser's Game
• Memory
• Mercy
• Money To Burn
• Most Of All
• Mother Of Exiles
• Mud And Spit
• My Backyard
• No Greater Love
• No Other
• Nobody's Fault But Mine
• None But You
• NorthBound
• O Babylon!
• Oil Today
• On My Dyin' Bed
• Out Cold
• Plant the seed Again
• Repurposed
• Rooster Crow
• Self Defense
• Shaky Ground
• Slow Burn
• Spontaneous Combustion
• Stand By The Window
• STORM
• Straw Man
• Street Talk
• Tapestry
• The Day Love Died
• The Exchange
• The One I've Trusted
• The Protest
• The Toll
• Thief
• Three Below Zero
• Thug
• Torch
• Unemployment Blues
• Unfinished Business
• Where Would I Be
• Whiteright (History Lesson)
• Winter Sun
• Working Poor
• You Ain't
• You Are All To Me