Roach Hockey

by Swamp Eyes

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All music and lyrics were written in the hospital/hotel during my daughter’s T1D diagnosis. It was recorded poorly on broken equipment in 15-minute increments as I found pockets of time over the next few months. Lastly, it was gracefully mixed and mastered by Wes Luttrell of Wally Opus Studios.

Over the last six months, a bunch of people have supported me and my family in every way imaginable (taking classes on Type 1 to help babysit, letting us vent, checking in, and helping me create this song).

Several other people went far beyond their comfort zones to submit their vocals for the choir section, and that kind of support means pretty much everything to me.

lyrics

You don't know the size of the beast
From the eyes in the swamp
You can't shake the shit from your shoes
No matter how hard you stomp
You won't know when the worst will knock
And you won't know when the best will snuff the spark
Everything's loud, but everything's louder in the dark

I play roach hockey in the driveway as I
Swat them back into the neighbor's yard
And I bring shears to the maze
But that never really seemed to get me far
Losing touch feels like the best thing I could lose
'Cause I don't realize when it leaves
And singing karaoke at a dive bar
As somehow become a part of me
A part of me

Everything is loud
It's a part of us now
Everything is loud
It's a part of us now

credits

released September 13, 2021
Sam Kuban - All Music & Lyrics
Wes Luttrell of Wally Opus Studios - Mixing & Mastering

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Swamp Eyes Evansville, Indiana

Swamp Eyes is an experimental folk project that offers the listener a deep-dive into a stressful, binary world of haunting fingerstyle guitar and spastic blasts of chaos that somehow satisfyingly coexist.

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