St. Francis

A message of hope is addressed to a place, "Saint Francis," whose "borders" and "city streets" suggest a city. "There is a love hidden inside your borders, just waiting to be free," the song says, and it repeats the same claim about hope "just waiting to be realized." The words are an encouragement to keep going: "keep hoping, Saint Francis, you'll be a free man yet."

The promise is concrete: "you'll see the sun shine again over your city streets." Kristene DiMarco admits the present is dark, saying "though darkness covers your sleeping love, it won't last." That sentence prepares the scripture quotations that follow.

The center of the song is two lines taken from the Bible. "Those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength" is Isaiah 40:31, and "those who wait upon the Lord will not be put to shame" echoes Psalm 25:3. Waiting is the action of the whole song, as the closing lines make plain, "and so we wait, so we wait for the sun to shine, and so we wait, so we wait for You to come," close to the patient hope of Lamentations 3:25.