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Trepidation

from Y3K Part Two by Kerry Logan

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The Y3K album is a conceptual piece about my 'spiritual reset' and Part Two occurred when I read the book 'Love Wins' by Rob Bell. This song was written a little backwards in that I began with the music from a different concept and had to fit in lyrics that worked for this concept as well as the original one. The piece is ultimately a part of the Regression Suite - like Transgression and 2nd Transgression before them - and the whole direction of the piece had to be written lyrically to be a part of both concepts, Y3K and Regression, and made to fit musically. A challenge, fo' sure. In it, I am trying to deal with the nervousness I feel about my own role in God's plan for others - is everything down to me? If I don't convert everyone I know, is it my fault that they don't know Jesus? It is a good follow on from the previous track.

Musically, it is full of obvious Regression-isms, which perhaps sound somewhat fresher in the foreign environment. I also had a significant acoustic guitar element in the songs which I knew was going to be a departure from the rest of the Y3K works (with the exception of Power of the Right Question which had acoustic added later), but the Regression nature of the song overruled the Y3Kness.

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With sudden panic I recall the dire state of others
My trepidation at the reckoning
A fear that I keep hidden underneath the surface
Under my lazy Christianity
For on the day of Sunrise, will I stand all alone?
Or can I scrape a meager offering?
I feel the pressure building – “I am responsible”
Who can I drag next, kicking, screaming?

God’s a big boy – He can handle
All unbelief, all our scandal
When all we know passes away
He will gather all, will gather all

I am blocked by people moving on, by all the changing weather
By that the regular is comforting
How can I plead the choices – to activate the hole
To always pray to gather kindling?
Does God not see panic? Surely I am not alone –
There must be others out there struggling!
I feel the pressure mounting – who is responsible?!
The halls of men could soon be emptying…

Wait for a world that cannot be
The plan to separate all things
Is it what we did?
Is all-love hindered?
I must trust that in the end I’ll see
But – am I free?

credits

from Y3K Part Two, released November 12, 2016
Guitars, Bass, Programming and Vocals by Kerry Logan. Drums by Bobby Logan. Screaming crowd courtesy of some random students at Opunake High School, featuring Hone Heron.

Written and produced by Kerry Logan. Recorded at OHS Studios April to November 2016, drum tracks at Noiseworks in December 2015 and mixed at OHS Studios in October/November 2016.

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