Safe spaces and trusted people have been themes I’ve been exploring & sinking into. I wrote I’ll Wait Here in the midst of the pandemic, when uncertainty was the undercurrent of every conversation collectively, and when my family and I were going through a lot of transition. Its themes are presence and patience; sometimes there aren’t words. Sometimes we just need a container to safely move through.
This song could have been written to so many people. Sometimes I know deep down that I wrote it to my son, Will. Sometimes I also know, that I wrote it to myself.
lyrics
Instead of words that I would say to you
I’m holding presence in my hands
And all the gray haze we’re floating through
It wasn’t our plan
All the wrongs, the rights, the hindsight
Reflecting in the air
Well it will come clear as daylight
In time
Ooh, I’ll sit with you as the rain is coming down
And I’ll wait
I’ll wait here
There will be things that I will likely miss
As I try and keep you dry
And warm and leaning into braveness
As I tend to the fire
If you take your time and occupy
All that space inside your chest
It will come clear as daylight
In time
Ooh, I’ll sit with you as the rain is coming down
And I’ll wait
I’ll wait
Ooh, I’ll sit with you as the rain is coming down
And I’ll wait
I’ll wait
I’ll wait here
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