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Listen to our new singles now!

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blood on the levee
Miss Everything
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Our debut album Wearing No Collar is available where you listen to music!
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CREDITS

Strange Heavy:
McKenzie Lauren Jones: Lyrics, music, cello, vocals, stomps and claps
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Galen Chamberlain Morley: Music, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, background vocals, stomps and claps

With:
Nick Bullock: Electric bass guitar, piano, electric organ, electric keyboard, percussion, electric guitar (tracks 4 and 6)

Connor: Stomps and claps

​Recorded at The Doghouse Studio in Nashville, TN by Nick Bullock
Mixed at The Doghouse Studio and Awake Studios in Nashville, TN by Nick Bullock
Mastered by Scaramanga Industries in Ithaca, NY by Matthew Saccuccimorano
Front cover and inside front cover photos by Isis Red Cloud Traumann-Davis
Back cover photo by Chris Ploss of Sunwood Recording
CD and CD tray photos by Ryah Giles of Ready for the Afterglow 
Design concept by McKenzie Lauren Jones
Graphic design by Shira Evergreen

LYRICS
The Only One Swimming

Wait, you said the water is cold
Hey, I think your comfort is sold 
You know I just wanna get wet
First, I gotta pay off some debt

Sometimes I am the only one swimming
Sometimes I am the only one swimming

Do you wanna dip in your toe
How else are you ever gonna know
Once my head goes all the way down
I am not afraid I will drown

Sometimes I am the only one swimming
Sometimes I am the only one swimming

When the water starts to get warm
Then you're gonna weather my storm
This is not a bet I will lose
Babe, 'cause I have paid all my dues

Sometimes I am the only one swimming
Sometimes I am the only one swimming

Way Over There

Tell me where you left your expectations
And what it is you started wanting more
Have you ever really lost your patience
What is it that you can't pick off the floor

Way over
Way over there
Way over
Way over

Talk to me about your childhood nightmares
When was the last time that you cried alone
Have you ever loved so much you got scared
Or felt your wanting rattle in your bones

Way over
Way over there
Way over
Way over, I'll

Stay over
Stay over there
Stay over
Stay over

Purring and panting and wearing no collar
I'll lay where you want me to 

Give me all the things that I can't pay for
And I'll forgive myself what's overdue
Have you ever seen what costs are in store
Looking for someone who's loyal too

Way over
Way over there
Way over
Way over, I'll

Stay over
Stay over there
Stay over
Stay over while

You're over
You're over there
You're over
Way over there

It’s All Your Skin

You said that you would wait for me
But I'm moving fast
I saw you throw some bait for me
That won't make it last

When I clean beneath my fingers
It's all your skin
Even when I close my door 
You're still comin' in 

I heard you say it wasn't worth it
To figure it out
I saw you wash your hands in the dirt
To cover your doubt

When I clean beneath my fingers 
It's all your skin
Even when I close my door 
You're still comin' in

I know you find some value in it
Whatever we got
You know I find some value in it
Whatever we're not

When I clean beneath my fingers 
It's all your skin
Even when I close my door 
You're still comin' in
When I clean beneath my fingers 
It's all your skin
Even when I close my door
You're still comin' in

Favors Still Run Deep

I made it home in the morning
And it was warm without a warning
So I shed my skin 

I felt so tired in the daytime
I get so wired when he arrives
I see the veil is thin

Is it alright
Is it alright
Tell me, is it alright
Is it alright
Is it alright
Tell me, is it alright

I take more shit than I'd prefer to
I make more money than I used to
I think I'll be just fine

He played my fingers on the table
On steel, we lingered when we were able
To color out of line

Is it alright
Is it alright
Tell me, is it alright
Is it alright
Is it alright
Tell me, is it alright

It is alright
It is alright
I say it is alright 
It is alright
It is alright
I say it is alright

I started driving in the gloaming
Did not want to see where I was roaming
I never stopped to sleep

Most days I get there with my own legs
No more or less than I want to beg
And favors still run deep
And favors still run deep
And favors still run deep
Enough

The last time I tried to break ground
That patch of dirt was too tough
I drank all my blood from the ground
Until that dirt made me tough
It wasn't all that rough
I only hurt so much

I tried to escape a car crash
But that road was too tough
I crawled through a pile of ash
Until that road made me tough
It wasn't all that rough
I only burn so much

Surely we still must be rotating toward the sun

I climbed up a tree to see you
But that view was too tough
I fell through the branches to you
Where our view made me tough
It wasn't all that rough
I only hope so much

Surely we still must be rotating toward the sun

I don't want anything else
Except what feels like enough
I won't ask for anything else
If it feels like enough
It shouldn't be that rough
I only want so much

You know I like it rough
I always want so much
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Eat From Your Hands

Take another turn in time
Make another curve inside
Break another steering wheel
Shake another you don't feel

And eat from your hands
Eat from your hands

Trace another scent of mine
Taste another, unrefined
Place another name at bay
Chase another game in play

And eat from your hands
Eat from your hands

Cross another broken bridge
Toss another backwards hinge
Wash another dirty skin
Cause another falling in

And eat from your hands
Eat from your hands
Eat from your hands
Eat from your hands

When To Burn


This parade
I didn't see it come, I didn't see it come
Where I laid
Don't know where it came from, don't know where it come from
I'd have paid
More than just parts in sum, more than just parts in sum
If they stayed
I didn't see it come, I didn't see it come

How we wonder
When to burn
Matters not
If it's already our turn

Where I stand
I bet you didn't know, I bet you didn't know
I had planned
To be a blazing show, to be a blazing show
With a band
But I played it on my own, I played it on my own
With these hands
I bet you didn't know, I bet you didn't know

How we wonder
When to burn
Matters not
If it's already our turn

There I fell
I watched the flames go higher, I watched the flames go higher
When we smell
Smoke then there must be fire, smoke then there must be fire
Please don't tell
Me that I'm on a wire, me that I'm on a wire
Heard you yell
I watched the flames go higher, I watched the flames go higher

How we wonder
When to burn
Matters not
If it's already our turn

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Hunt For The Sound


I've always been that kind of hound
Dirty feet on the kill
You're in the bushes making sounds
I think I heard what you will
From your mouth

I've always been that kind of hound
Sniffing for something ahead
I know you wanna feel safe and sound
I just want everyone fed
From my mouth

On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound

I've always been that kind of hound
Circling under the gun
You pull the trigger from the ground
You know you don't have to run
From my mouth

On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound

Remember when you used to make up time
Now where ya start ain't ever what you find

I've always been that kind of hound
Rarely feeling regret
Sometimes that means the long way around
So what I want I can get
From your mouth

On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound 
From your mouth
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound
From your mouth
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound
From your mouth
On the hunt for the sound
On the hunt for the sound

Since I Felt Lonely

You know it's been a while
Since I felt lonely
Every time I walk that mile
I think if only
I could just rewind the clock
To when he used to know me
Doesn't take too long to stop
'Cause nobody owns me 

I don't wanna burn too fast
Seen enough ash under the snow
Someone told me once I crash
Sound is what never really goes

I have the greatest sense
That we're moving forward
On a path of slight eclipse
Still I'm moving toward
Something tasting bittersweet
Leaves me wanting more
Ripened in an early seat
Fingers on the floor

I don't wanna burn too fast 
Seen enough ash under the snow
Someone told me once I crash
Sound is what never really goes
I don't wanna burn too fast
Seen enough ash under the snow
Someone told me once I crash
Sound is what never really goes

You know it's been a while
Since I felt lonely
Every time I walk that mile
I think if only
I could just advance the clock
To when he's gonna know me
Doesn't take too long to stop
'Cause nobody owes me

I don't wanna burn too fast
Seen enough ash under the snow
Someone told me once I crash
Sound is what never really goes
I don't wanna burn too fast
Seen enough ash under the snow
Someone told me once I crash
Sound is what never really goes

You know it's been a while
Since I felt lonely

Without These Promises

You could have wasted our time more
I would have let you go all the way in the red
I'll try to stop feeling so sore
'Bout what's unsaid

If you've forgiven somebody
Don't for a second think that I am not at risk
Of turning into nobody
Who would you miss

I'm ok without these promises
You're ok without them, too

You could have paid for our crime more
I would have let you go all the way in the black
I always open the front door
Before the back

Too many days I remember
Love only coming with conditions, that's not you
I'm really trying to surrender
To something new

I'm ok without these promises
You're ok without them, too
I'm ok whichever way it is

I'm always waking up thirsty
I take a sip like a new best friend you just met
We go to bed when we're dirty
Don't get up yet

I like to sleep with the fan on
When even after it's dark the air is so thick
That as I'm dreaming I still want
Something to drink

I'm ok without these promises
You're ok without them, too
I'm ok whichever way it is
We're ok, you want it, too

Walking On Frozen Water

Who's gonna hold you up
Do you think you'd recognize the sound
Of ice cracking underfoot 
If you knew you were about to drown

I ain't no savior
But I'm walking on frozen water
There ain't no danger
When you know you've already suffered
If you had asked me 
Would I try again with another
I'd tell you watch me
As I'm walking on frozen water

Sometimes you sound the same 
As my daddy did when I was young 
I understand that pain
Changes shape but it is never gone

I ain't no savior
But I'm walking on frozen water
There ain't no danger
When you know you've already suffered
If you had asked me 
Would I try again with another
I'd tell you watch me
As I'm walking on frozen water

If you could hear your voice
Through my ears, I wonder what you'd say
If you could feel your choice
Through my veins, I wonder how you'd play

I ain't no savior
But I'm walking on frozen water
There ain't no danger
When you know you've already suffered 
If you had asked me 
Would I try again with another
I'd tell you watch me
As I'm walking on frozen water

I saw you write 
My name in the snow
When the melting fights
With you, where will I go

After the springtime comes
What new life will your fresh puddles feed
I can survive a flood
If it won't wash away what I need

I ain't no savior
But I'm walking on frozen water
There ain't no danger
When you know you've already suffered
If you had asked me 
Would I try again with another
I'd tell you watch me
As I'm walking on frozen water

I'd tell you watch me
As I'm walking on frozen water
Oh baby, watch me
I'm walking on frozen water

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