Promised Land

By Mark Stewart

I’ve been waiting for an eternity

Yeah I’ve been waiting for a little reprieve

Hold on, hold on keep on holding on

So long, so long I keep holdin on

Take my hand lead me to the promised land

I’ve got a new life just waiting for me

Take my hand lead me to the promised land

I’ve got somebody just waiting for me … hold on

When things seem bad when life just makes you sad

When you feel low an it just won’t go

Hold on hold on keep on holdin on

So long so long I keep holdin on

About a month before my mother-in-law (Jeannette Welch) passed away, she wrote a poem and gave it to me in hopes that I might be able to use it in a song. ‘Hold On’ is the poem she wrote and ‘Promised Land’ is the song that it inspired. I played the song for her in the hospital and she told me that she wished she had my talent for writing because I had said all the things she’d been feeling. Three days later she passed, I also had the honor of presenting the song at her memorial service. Over the last few months while I was recording this CD I could always feel her presence when I worked on this song.