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Eliza McCartney

from Decimation by Kerry Logan

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While I don't think this is the best song I've ever written, it might possibly be my favourite, and that is largely thanks to the incredible bass part written by my cousin and former Shift member, Shay.

During my 2016 year in Opunake, I would occasionally walk to school with my acoustic guitar playing whatever came into my head. Around the time of Eliza McCartney's bronze medal performance in the Olympics, I was wandering to school and this riff kept asking to be played. Some weeks later, when I could leave it no longer, I collected it all into a demo track (recorded mostly while I was away in Tauranga coaching the Opunake High Boys team at their North Island tournament) and let it sit for a while.

Like Overland, it was a quick inclusion into the Ocean of Dreams album, bit could have been a filler until my cousin Shay got hold of it. His bass track is so good, it demanded a rewrite of my parts and shaped the whole thing. Kudos, Shay - you're a star.

Lyrically, I use the example of Eliza McCartney's youthful energy and sporting performance as a spark to ignite my own search for what I once held so dear. Would the child that I was be happy with the choices I had made, or will make? I must live to honour who I was as well as who I will be. (And if Eliza ever reads this: thanks for being awesome.)

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What were my dreams?
Buried in things
Would the child that I was
Be upheld in all these?
I will wake up
The childish dreams within me
And leap

Look to the skies
What a surprise!
The child of the long white cloud
Bronzed on the rise
Your makeup
Has much to speak to me
You fly

Oh! Eliza! How you hold the dreams of us all in your hands

credits

from Decimation, released March 15, 2019
from Ocean of Dreams, released September 28, 2018
Guitar, acoustic, and vocals: Kerry Logan, drums: Bobby Logan, bass: Shay Markby.

Written by Kerry Logan and Shay Markby. Produced, engineered and mixed by Kerry Logan. Drums recorded at NoiseWorks, Hawera, in October-November 2017. Recorded at SBC, Poto Road December 2017-September 2018 using a TASCAM digital recorder, and wherever Shay lives. We are your cynosure.

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