The Country That Doesn't Want You

The title for this song was inspired from a part in the novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. For the "C" part of the song, I borrowed directly from "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus: the poem inscribed on the plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. I know I have to work on my diction: In the chorus, "want you" comes out "wanchoo." Gesundheit!

Merry Christmas, my forum friends!

The Wrecking Crew:
RT697 Guitar, Electric, Rhythm ElecRockDirty
RT4133 Guitar, Electric, Rhythm ProgRockLondonSyncPower
NI Electric Mint
Various Guitar Loops
NI Prime Bass
DOD Drum Loops

Lyrics

You left your family
You left your home
Danger in the desert
Traveling all alone

Looking for liberty
And a dream to come true
You want to go
To the country that doesn’t want you

Poverty, brutality
Famine, and disorder
They had the same reasons
But came from a different border

Looking for liberty
And a dream to come true
You want to go
To the country that doesn’t want you

Give me your tired
Give me your homeless and poor
Where’s the lamp by the golden door

Looking for liberty
And a dream to come true
You want to go
To the country that doesn’t want you.

Your huddled masses
Yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse
Of your teeming shores
Words aren’t true anymore