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Don't Forget (To Remember) [Single Edit]

from Decimation by Kerry Logan

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When I first moved to Wellington, I didn't spend much time in building support networks about me and I found that I had quickly got out of my depth. I found I was beginning to recreate some of the issues I had thought I had left in Hawera and found that I was struggling somewhat with my new life. I remember reflecting on this during a church service where the speaker (the 14-year-old Pastor's son!) was talking about 'hard work' and I had a change of attitude which set me on a path that would change my future for good.

Musically, I always had this version of the song in mind, although I played it for many years as an acoustic version. I was pleasantly surprised when I first laid down the electric guitar tracks, realising the song properly for the first time, and I re-fell in love with the song some 19 years after I first wrote it.

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The world becomes anew
More now to grow into

As the old me begins to die
It will not go without a fight
It claws at my insecurity

“It seems that they wanna take my blood from my veins
Test me in every way so I can prove that I can try
In all my years I have never had this cover on my aims
Must I stain you again? Please tell me why?”

It’s all growing up
No matter how hard it gets
A part of you will live and a part will die…

Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know

Step into the unknown
Make a little more my home

Now the old me is losing life
To save itself from ever night
It preys on my insecurity

“Everyday I live the routine again
Stand against this would and with my fist defy
What attitude? It’s just I can’t stand this place
I turn my back on it as I head inside”

It’s not a hate
It’s just hard work instead
This ‘attitude’ that lives – it now must die

Don’t forget there’s much to learn after a fall
Don’t forget to be bigger than your glow
I was once safe at home but now not so
Don’t forget to remember what you know

How would I have been here if I were alone?
How would I be without you?

I'm not alone... never alone...
Never once left...

credits

from Decimation, released March 15, 2019
from Third and Change [EP], released March 15, 2019
Guitar, bass, and vocals: Kerry Logan, drums: Bobby Logan, bass: Neil Hearn.

Written by Kerry Logan. Produced, engineered and mixed by Kerry Logan. Drums recorded at NoiseWorks, Hawera, in January 2019. Recorded at SBC and Poto Road August 2018-March 2019 using a TASCAM DR40 digital recorder.

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