Name: Foreigner Face
Duration: P00H04M36S
Description: A folk/Americana song about settling down in a new country, struggling with identity and looking for friends. Recorded as Live Masterlink Session featuring world class musicians of the Redtenbacher’s Funkestra.

Foreigner Face

by Jana Varga

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A folk/Americana song about settling down in a new country, struggling with identity and looking for friends. Recorded as Live Masterlink Session featuring world class musicians of the Redtenbacher’s Funkestra.

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Foreigner Face

I’m travelling now to my new home
At 27 I am starting again
In the harbour of night, looking for a lighthouse
To guide my tired boat in

I summon my courage to step ashore
My feet walking streets I don’t recognise
But we were all strangers before we met
Can you see it in my eyes ?

That it’s hard to dream and it’s hard to compete
Before you’ve had a chance to find your feet
Before you’ve understood the city’s ways
Looking for a friend to talk to these days
Other than the one who live in a mirror
With a foreigner face

The wind whistles songs I’ve never heard
I keep listening though I don’t understand
But bonds started as souls standing alone
And this was once a foreign land

And it’s hard to dream and it’s hard to compete
Before you’ve had a chance to find your feet
Before you’ve understood the city’s ways
Looking for a friend to talk to these days
Other than the one who live in a mirror

Moon shines on the road
That was built by men born here
Who eat from the crops they sowed
And keep their families near
That’s the road I’m walking to blend in
I can tell you for sure
This was not a misunderstanding

But it’s hard to dream and it’s hard to compete
Before you’ve had a chance to find your feet
Before you’ve understood the city’s ways
Looking for a friend to talk to these days
Other than the one who live in a mirror
With a foreigner face

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Jana Varga London, UK

'Well-traveled folk of Paul Simon with the intimacy of Tracy Chapman' is one of the ways to describe the music of this Slovak-born singer songwriter and a multi instrumentalist. At its core, it's full of melodies that deliver lyrics effortlessly with great intimacy. Having lived away from her birthplace for a long time, Jana often sings about leaving or finding home. ... more

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