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Foreign Land

from Dissolution by John Alexander Genz

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Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
The arrangement of the table and the chairs were a mystery to me
Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
What you kept in the cabinets, the crannies and the nooks,
and the dustpan, yeah
Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
When you walked barefoot in the middle of the night was it tile,
was it hardwood or parquet?
Your kitchen was once a foreign land to me
Uncharted, unknown, and unmapped by the world’s best cartographers

Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
I didn’t understand the local customs,
I didn’t speak the language that fluently
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
The posters on the walls and the colors of your bedsheets,
I could only guess from the things that you’d say
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
What kind of secrets did you keep in that one hidden drawer in your desk or your dresser, yeah
Your bedroom was once a foreign land to me
I was studying my phrasebook asking for directions when you came and you found me

And you, despite the wildness of my heart, you let me in

Your heart was once a foreign land to me
I couldn't tell the left atrium from the right atrium
And they way it pumped oxygen, yeah
Your heart was once a foreign land to me
And everytime It beat i could swear I could feel something forming
On the tip of my tongue

And you, despite the wildness of my heart, you let me in

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from Dissolution, released September 10, 2016

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John Alexander Genz Saint Paul, Minnesota

John Alexander Genz performs music and spoken word. His style, if this is the right word, seems to be somewhere between folk and punk, with a delta blues/drone influence.

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