Name: A Foreign Language
Duration: P00H03M29S
Description: The song is about how some people like me have trouble communicating their love for the people in their lives. We go about our lives with so much love and hide it all away like a secret, and sometimes if we don’t learn to overcome this flaw, we might go through our entire lives keeping it from the people who should know.

Star Bear - A Foreign Language

from SpinTunes 19 Round 1 by Spintunes

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The song is about how some people like me have trouble communicating their love for the people in their lives. We go about our lives with so much love and hide it all away like a secret, and sometimes if we don’t learn to overcome this flaw, we might go through our entire lives keeping it from the people who should know.

lyrics

I don’t have the words that do justice to myself
I don’t have the voice to sing my thoughts I want to tell you
I try to find a way to speak a language you can hear
But I know I’m often rambling unclear

I don’t know if you can tell how much I truly care
I try to leave you messages and breadcrumbs everywhere
Maybe when you pick them up you you’ll get a sense of how
I’m failing to convey the love I feel—love deep profound

I am lost in this story
Love’s a foreign language for me
I never learned to speak it
I don’t mean to keep secrets

I don’t hear the messages from my families
Neither from the ones I chose or the others who chose me
All the tries to to pick me up, to give me what I need
Landed flat when I dropped them at my feet

I am lost in this story
Love’s a foreign language for me
I never learned to read it
It’s kept from me a secret

I don’t know how to tell anybody
that I appreciate their vision of me
I don’t know how to say the simplest
Thing about my whole existence
I’m so grateful for my people
Why can’t I just be real

I am lost in this story
Love’s a foreign language for me
I never learned to speak it
I don’t mean to keep secrets

I am lost in this story
Love’s a foreign language for me
I never learned to speak it
I don’t mean to keep secrets

credits

from SpinTunes 19 Round 1, released March 21, 2022
Lyrics and music by Bert Huang

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