Songs
Another Country
There’s a country that I’m going to
Where the grass is always green
Where there’s always a warm welcome
Sight unseen, sight unseen, sight unseen
There’s a place within that country
Where the water tastes like wine
Where I choose to spend my future
Out of time, out of time, out of time
Chorus
I’m gonna reach across those boundaries
To that foreign land
I’m searching for adventure
I pray you’ll understand
I’m searching for a reason
Holding back the pain
Waiting for our season to begin again
In that country there is freedom
To be just what I want to be
Free from fear and persecution
Sanctuary, sanctuary, sanctuary
Chorus
I want to take you to that country
It’s not very hard to find
Search my soul and you will find it
In my mind, in my mind, in my mind
We were asked to play a gig for refugee rights and I wanted us to play something pertinent. The chorus I’d had swimming around in my head since working in Poland many years before. I drew on those memories of living in a foreign land to flesh out the verses along with trying to imagine what it must be like to flee persecution, where a place to live in peace is something you can only dream of. – Paul