<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">some thoughts about the current debate about immigration</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong><em>&copy; Steven E. Cutts, 2018</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">a Studio C recording,&nbsp;<strong>January 2019</strong></span></p>

Lyrics

<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I wish I could throw the door wide open</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">And welcome you inside;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">A long and fright&rsquo;ning journey&rsquo;s brought you here. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">All you seek&rsquo;s a life that&rsquo;s better</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Than the one you left behind</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">For you and all of those that you hold dear.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I&rsquo;m not sure I could have braved</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">All the dangers you have faced,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">In my mind you have earned the chance</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">To settle in this place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">If it were simply up to me . . . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">But, it&rsquo;s complicated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">You are not the first to stand there</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Staring through the door</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Some of my kin stood in that spot not so long before.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I know we said we&rsquo;d lift a lamp</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">To a sanctuary home;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We have our poetry about the tired and poor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I a m afraid that you have heard </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">What some folks say:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">That we should lock this door </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">And that you should go away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Now, if it were simply up to me . . . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">But, it&rsquo;s complicated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">For what it&rsquo;s worth: this home of mine </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Is not everything it seems;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I can show you broken promises, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Show you broken dreams, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Still, if it were simply up to me . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">If it were simply up to me . . . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">But, it&rsquo;s complicated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">It&rsquo;s complicated.</span></p>