Suffs - Wait My Turn Lyrics

2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - Wait My Turn Lyrics


The song is written by Shaina Taub. Performed by Nikki M. James.

IDA:
Wait my turn?
When will you white women ever learn?
I had the same damn talk
With Susan B. Anthony 20 years ago
I thought you might be better,
But you still don’t know
Do you not realize you’re not free
Until I’m free
Or do you refuse to see?
Well, it’s not my job to teach you
But it seems to have fallen to me

You want me to wait my turn?
But I sure don’t see you waiting yours
No, you’re preaching “We demand it now!”
While knocking down locked doors
But you want me to wait my turn
So you don’t offend your southern base?
Since when does a radical roll over
For bigots in the first place?
That’s not leadership, Alice
It's cowardice

I hear you quote
Frederick Douglass on your soapbox
Intending to include and impress us
But in the press you play down our involvement
And here behind closed doors,
You attempt to suppress us
‘Deeds, not words’ says the button on your jacket
I’m so sick of rhetoric with no action to back it
If you don’t have the spine to stand with us now
What will it take?
You do have a choice,
There’s always a choice
Which one will you make?

Don’t you dare tell me to wait my turn
In truth, it’s not your call
Either I march with my own state delegates
Or I don’t march at all

I’m not here to soothe your guilt
That is none of my concern
I won’t beg for your approval
Which I shouldn’t have to earn
So no matter what you tell me
I will not wait one more minute for my turn



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Suffs the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Let Mother Vote
Finish the Fight
Find A Way
Wait My Turn
Terrell’s Theme
The March (We Demand Equality)
Great American Bitch
Ladies
Worth It
If We Were Married
The Convention Part 1
This Girl
The Convention Part 2
Alva Belmont
Show Them Who You Are
The Campaign
How Long?
The Young Are At The Gates
Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone
Hold It Together
Wait My Turn (reprise)
The Report
Show Them Who You Are (reprise)
Insane
Fire & Tea
Let Mother Vote (reprise)
She and I
A Letter From Harry’s Mother
I Was Here
If We Were Married (reprise)
Lucy’s Song
Finish the Fight (reprise)
Keep Marching