She is a Foreign Country

from Heart EP by Andrew Osenga

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She is a Foreign Country

I'm married. To a smart, funny and beautiful woman. My Legos would never have believed you if you'd told them this when I was twelve years old.

It has slowly dawned on my over the past eleven years that I won't begin to learn everything there is to know about this woman sleeping a foot away from me every night. She is at least twenty lifetimes of beauty to be discovered and celebrated.

When I'm in beautiful places all over America I love to imagine what it would have been like to be the first person to walk over this hill and see this valley or waterfall or canyon or mountain. That thrill of discovering a new land will surely be something we'll experience in heaven.

This is how I feel with my bride. I keep walking along and randomly looking up and being knocked out by some stunning uncharted aspect of God's glorious creation in her. The writing of this song is a map on a napkin of what I've seen so far.

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She is a Foreign Country

I was shipwrecked on uncharted shore
offering shelter and hope
it was wild and new and as I explored
something within me awoke

I was struck when I saw her horizons
beyond what ten lifetimes could reach
she is a foreign country

she is ancient trees and freshwater springs
miles of uncharted plains
she is crystal lakes of compassion deep
tender and fierce just the same

and I'm standing high on a mountain
there is beauty as far as I see
she is a foreign country

she is wild and free
and she stands by me
skies of blue and flame
and she wears my name
she is a foreign country
and she bears my name
she is a foreign country

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from Heart EP, released March 18, 2014

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Andrew Osenga Nashville, Tennessee

Artist, Producer, Writer, Player.
Husband, Father, Friend.

I make music that I want to hear.

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