Zealandia (album version)

from Zealandia Remix EP by Dudley Benson

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Taken from the forthcoming album, Zealandia
Released 10.08.18, digital/2xLP/CD

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If I reach out and touch a line
Will your heart give a rhythm
That’s also mine?
Is there a language I can learn
To understand you?
I thought I felt you moving in the moonlight
Why do you hide when I come near?

If I dive into the mountain side
Will you show me the pattern
Of the main divide?
Is there a reason for the shadow
That you cast over my eyes?
I thought I heard you crying in the forest
What do your mourn under the Taurean sky?

Zealandia
I love you
You and me are
One and the same, part of a whole

I feel your breath inside of me
But when the time comes
I’ll return it gratefully
Oh will you hear me when I call you
At the midnight of my life?
You’ll take my body into yours
And feed from it
With a blood-ribbon you pull me home

With my hand upon my heart
I give you so freely
My pledge to honour and protect you
Always

credits

from Zealandia Remix EP, released August 3, 2018
Written, mixed & produced by Dudley
Arranged by Dudley & Andrew Baldwin

Minerals & rocks performed by Alistair Fraser, selected by Hamish Campbell, GNS Science
Harp by Michelle Velvin
Harpsichord by Gracie Francis
Bagpipes by Chabbethai Chia
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hamish McKeich
New Zealand Youth Choir conducted by David Squire

Recorded by Andre Upston, Lee Prebble & Dudley

Mastered by Martin Korth, Black Saloon Studios

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Dudley Benson Dunedin, New Zealand

I'm a queer independent artist based in Dunedin, New Zealand. I make music about nature and nationhood. Thanks for listening!

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