Stayed is an album about the kinds of love that don’t shout, but linger. Built on quiet moments, half-closed doors, and the echoes of words never said, each track traces the soft ache of connection—how it forms, how it frays, and how it somehow endures. These aren’t grand declarations. They’re confessions left on voice memos. Glances held too long. Goodbyes that felt like maybe.

With textures ranging from ambient folk to cinematic indie, Stayed drifts through longing, memory, and stillness. Some songs ask to be heard in headphones at midnight. Others belong to empty roads or rooms that still hold someone’s scent.

This is not an album about falling in love.
It’s an album about the people who never left you—
even when they did.

Like I Belonged

In the Age of Indifference, only radical acts of kindness will do, to keep hope alive.

Janice and Jambres

Love Will Come

WINTER MONDAY
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Day trips back to your hometown
On a winter Monday
Street full of empty wind, closed now
And I’m rushing nowhere 
Beach break, you tied your lace, we sat down
And in slow motion

Break me open and pour yourself in
When the leaves start falling 
Will you be home again?

Last stop, they wake you up far from
The city skyline
Hotels and cinemas long gone
I don’t recognise the face, but I know the name
From another lifetime

Break me open and pour yourself in
When the leaves start falling 
Will you be home again?

Day trips back to your old road
On a winter Monday
Homes where we used to play, all sold
But the memories don’t fade 

Break me open and pour yourself in
When the leaves start falling 
Will you be home again?

______________________________

Written by Annie Rew Shaw and Billy Wright
Produced by Aviv Cohen
Mastered by Tom Waterman

Dust In The Sunlight EP

Winter Monday

Riding the crosstown 
I see my breath on the window, form a cloud  
Next to me, a seat that is vacant
but just for a moment, before you sit down

You turn to a crossword
Back of a magazine you had found
"Can you lend me a pen? Help with these questions?
See some are so simple, but some are profound"

Oh, how I wish I had one 
I wish I had the answers too 
You just smile say it's alright dear,
none of us do 

Ask where you’re going
to see it’s someplace that I could be going soon 
"Don’t you have a plan? 
A future thats written? somewhee you’re moving to?"

Oh how I wish i'd had one 
I wish I had the answers too 
You just smile, say its alright dear,
None of us do 


None of us 
None of us
None of us do 
Have the answers 
Have the answers

None of us
None of us
None of us do 
Have the answers 
Have the answers

But riding the crosstown
I see my breath on the window, form a cloud
Next to me, a seat that is vacant
But just for a moment, just for a moment

Answers

A Place to Call Home

Northwoods

Poetry - EP

Honesty

Listen to 'Runaway Jane (two)' from Simon XO's upcoming album Relief EP, to be released November 13, 2020

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📝 Lyrics:

Grab your big coat
Leave the folded note
Don’t forget your alibi
He’s off on it again
And it pours when it rains
You just gotta get out this time

Shake the panic loose
They can’t touch you if you move
Love’s a lost game of one
Runaway Jane
If that’s your real name
How long can you hold on?

You’re on your way now
Don’t stick your hand out
You know the punishment fits the crime
The silver-lit gates
Are rusted shut of late
The less you look the less you’ll find

Shake the panic loose
They can’t touch you if you move
Love’s a lost game of one
Runaway Jane
If that’s your real name
How long can you hold on?

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Simon XO - Runaway Jane (two) (with lyrics)

Listen to Oskar Nordbø's new single 'First Snow Falling', released September 4, 2020

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🎧 'First Snow Falling', released 04-09-2020
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📖 About the song:
Oskar delivers a strong folk-tune filled with catchy melodies and rhythmic guitars. With a comforting and relaxed energy, the new single perfectly accompanies the vibe of a morning coffee or the last glimpse of sun on a late autumn evening.

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📝 Lyrics:

First snow falling in the end of June
early winter, maybe summer soon?
A year has gone, but it feels more like ten
It took some time to grow again

We'd been waiting patient for too long
for the summer, and for the sun to warm
a perfect fishing trip we'd planned
the silk green water trough our hands

The oceans finally boiling right here underneath me
So far away from where i´d thought i´d be
And it has just exploded out in shimmering sunlight
Your closer now, then you have ever been

This early morning, winds were building up,
we filled the boat with harps and fishing rods
A wall of clouds touching the waterline,
Said snow in June must be a sign

You stood there waiting when we got home
You'd maid a fire on the beach, you said please come and join,
And all your fears will be gone

Oskar Nordbø - First Snow Falling (with lyrics)

Listen to The Satellite Station's new single 'Come Home', released July 31, 2020

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📝 Lyrics:

Can we talk it through? 
I don’t want to fight with you
Because I know you said, that you just need some time
How did we get so low? 
I can’t do this on my own
So tell me why, you need to be alone. 

And I can’t stand 
When I reach over to take your hand
And you shake it off and give a look so cold 
It gives me chills 

I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
Just come home 

I can’t sleep at all 
I’m starting, at my phone
But no matter how I check you still haven’t called. 

And I admit, I’m not well
I’m losing track of myself
Cause the hours pass 
And I haven’t moved at all 


And I can’t stand 
When I see you with another man
And you tell me that he is just a friend 
But I don’t know

I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
Just come home 

Tell me what it is you want me to do 
Should we just pack our bags and head off somewhere new
Tell me what it is you want me to say
Cause I can’t believe that you would turn and walk away 

I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
I will hold my breath 
Until you come home
Just come home

Come Home

The Satellite Station - Come Home (with lyrics)

Listen to Thomas LaVine's new single 'Rivers', released August 28, 2020

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📖 About the song:
Rivers was born out of the feeling of being lost in the difficulty to maintain a balance. Life is so full of changes , always being caught in the unfamiliar bends. It gets easy to feel alone as if you are the only one experiencing these changes, to feel like your head is an island. Rivers is about that journey of understanding and connecting with yourself through these changes.

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📝 Lyrics:

I left 
Went on a drive 
For a 
Peace of mind 
Rivers
Constantly fold 
Stories 
Left untold 

Come back 
Yell across 
The canyon 
deep unknown 

You took my hand 
With a nervous shake 
'Cause you felt alone 
You never know when it all might change 
When you
might get lost 

Would you 
Come back home,
Would you
Come back home

Forests 
Rows of tall pine 
Weathered 
Left behind 
Secrets 
Lie in their grain 
In there 
Locked away 

You took my hand 
With a nervous shake 
Cause you felt alone 
You never know when it all might change 
When you
might get lost 

Would you 
Come back home,
Would you
Come back home

Saw you off 
Into the night 
Settle down 
You’ll be alright 

Saw you off 
Into the night 
Settle down 
You’ll be alright

Thomas LaVine - Rivers (with lyrics)

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