All songs written and performed by Stray Fossa (William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount)

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Recorded and engineered by William Evans with Stray Fossa in Sewanee, Tennessee

"I Was There" - cello by Lillia Keyes; violin by Sunny Bowers
"In Debt" - additional vocals by Anita Richardson

Cover and gatefold art by Melissa Santamaría

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Blossomer

Limited edition Vinyl Moon pressing of "With You For Ever" available on www.strayfossa.com/shop

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
All music written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert, from "Swimmer" (2015)

Do you think I see myself as part of something old?
Foreseen to hunt in water and multiply to millions?
You said it was preordained if you're soma, I am brain cell
A little faith will split your conscience, pit the world against its hopeful odds

All, all that was, all that was 
You feel that it haunts every move in a constellation of what you are
All, all that was, all that was 
You know that the time to find out what can never be found won’t last for long

If you feel so much of what you give is what you are
How do you know what's left will prove enough to carry on?
And if you carry what you're worth and what you sacrifice 
Wears you out, would anyone else notice if you died?
Do you have to be so, do you have to be so over and under I?
Do you have to be so, do you have to be so over and under I?

All, all that was, all that was 
You feel that it haunts every move in a constellation of what you are
All, all that was, all that was
You know that the time to find out what could never be found won't last for long
All, all that was, all that was 
All, all that was, all that was

All music written and performed by Stray Fossa
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert, from "Swimmer" (2015)

With You For Ever B-Sides & Live

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All That Was

Limited edition Vinyl Moon pressing of "With You For Ever" available on www.strayfossa.com/shop

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
All music written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert, from "Swimmer" (2015)

We’re moving out to the west coast, we used to say
however long it takes, we’ll hold the line
We’ll hold the line
But if it bottoms out we’ll throw the whole thing off
Pitch a castle somewhere no one can be bothering us
We’ve waited so long
We’ve waited so we’ll go wherever you’ll feel okay
And I know a place in the sun
I know a place in the palms of our hands
If you wanna bear the waves oh
If you wanna bear the waves

Or take another route
Throw the whole thing off
Raise a chance from all the past we’ve been blowing off
Friends of old homes for sake of our families
We’ll throw it all to the waves of a notion
If you wanna go away oh 
If you wanna go away

If you wanna go away
If you wanna go away
If you wanna go away (we waited)
If you go another way (we waited)
I won’t hold you back (we waited)
If you go another way (we waited)
I won’t hold you back (we waited)
If you wanna go away (we waited)		
I won’t hold you back (we waited)
If you go another way (we waited)
I won’t hold you back

All music written and performed by Stray Fossa
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert, from "Swimmer" (2015)

Bear The Waves?

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Closer Than We'll Ever Know

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Transpiring

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa 
Produced by William Evans 
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Comma, Comma

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa
Produced by William Evans 
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Never Rest For Good

Perfectly Out Of Time

Better Late Than...

So Still

© 2023 Born Losers Records / Bayonet Records

Written and performed by Stray Fossa and kelz
Produced by William J. Evans & Kelly Truong
Album art by Estephanie Barrera

Lyrics:
I hadn’t seen you in a while
Your shadow turns to me and smiles
That was before but this is now
We leave the space we owe ourselves

Pretend the past didn’t change us
Start to laugh at the Rolling Stones
Just you and I playing strangers
You turn around and you’re on our own

I lost my friend, I don’t know how
Alone again, oh where are you now?
It’s you by my side
It’s you on my mind
(Your shadow screams not to talk alone)
Can we turn back the time?
Can we get peace of mind? 
(You turn around and you’re on your own)

As if the past couldn’t change us
A shadow screams not to talk alone
You pull ahead to be earnest
Turn around and you’re on our own 
As if the past didn’t change us
You used to laugh at The Rolling Stones
Just you and I playing strangers
You turn around and you’re on your own
It’s you by my side
It’s you on my mind
(You turn around and you’re on your own)
Can we turn back the time?
Can we get peace of mind?
(You turn around and you’re on your own)

As if the past didn’t change us
You used to laugh at The Rolling Stones
Just you and I playing strangers
Turn around and you’re on your own

Playing Strangers

Playing Strangers (feat. kelz)

© 2024 Born Losers Records

Written and performed by Stray Fossa and Jaguar Sun
Produced by William Evans
Art by Nicholas Evans

Lyrics:
See all the gulls rushing over
To steal a piece 
Of what’s been thrown 
Picked apart until it’s gone

As I, hopeful once, 
Fear it’s hopeless
Every chance to take them over
Is sinking down into the bone 

But I’m pushing off to try 
To feel, as it all divides
The roaming of your heart 
That beats from afar

I see you in the moon 
I feel you everywhere 
It casts a ghostly light
Down all the roads you’ve been

Out into open waters
Hoping for the chance
To meet you in the blinding sun 
To hold you once again

I see you in the moon 
I feel you everywhere 
Guess I’m only trying 
To reach you best I can

Out into open waters
Hoping for the chance
To meet you in the blinding sun 
To hold you once again

I see you in the moon 
(Through the stars, through the air I breathe)
I feel you everywhere
(Feeling off, feeling time move deep)
It casts a gsshostly light
(Coming back into it, into me)
Down all the roads you’ve been
(Every time, every night it’s real)

Out into open waters
(I don’t, know what) 
Hoping for the chance
(To do, to choose)
To meet you in the blinding sun 
(Feel it, come through)
To hold you once again
(Through me, through you)

In The Moon

In The Moon - Stray Fossa x Jaguar Sun

Got my life in your hands
Don't mess it up friend
Put the wheel to your chest
Suck it up, take a deep breath and begin
Take the long trip home
A little numb and broke
But I've got your love
Just kickin' it back and runnin' with it

Indebted, indebted, indebted
Indebted, indebted to you

Missed the sun go down
As the band plays to the house
Woke up early and found
Broken bottles in the bathroom

Meant to stay with her
But he didn't like that much
So we cozied up on the floor
True friends don't get so possessive

Wouldn't want to be like that
Though I know she's got my back
These things don't always last
Washing the rosy off my glasses

But I couldn't find them there
Left them on the street somewhere
Good thing you got your pair
Now we don't have to die in collision

Indebted, indebted, indebted
Indebted, indebted to you

(Indebted) Got my life in your hands
(Indebted) Don't mess it up friend
(Indebted) Put the wheel to your chest
Suck it up, take a deep breath and begin
(Indebted) Take the long trip home
(Indebted) A little numb and broke
(Indebted) But I got your love
Just kickin' it back and runnin' with it

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by William J Evans
Music by William J Evans and Nicholas Warren Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Additional vocals by Anita Richardson

In Debt

The cherry blossom start
A summer with all the bugs
We stumble out for air
Like we've never seen the world
The tags inside our collars
Cut them out for good
And wash them till they're soft

I can tell
You're gonna leave a mark on me
All as well
We're weaning off cetirizine

The skin we lost is settled
In corners we don't go
And growing like the guilt
Of never calling home

I can tell
You're gonna leave a mark on me
All as well
We're weaning off cetirizine
I can tell
You're in it till you can't be seen
For a while
And then we're trading allergies

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by Nicholas Warren Evans
Music by Nicholas Warren Evans and William J Evans

Produced by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Take time 
Don’t want to fight
But the words you said
Somewhat unfair 
And I don’t know how
You and me, my friend
Can start again
Can start again

Or that’s how
It always seemed
When the blood spilled out
One moment, the next
It would all cool down
You and me, my friend
Seemed always better
With than without

Drains fast
Rushing like water
Through your hands
Threatening to rip us off
From the banks
Where nothing grows
And all your faith
Is all that floats

Oh well
Nothing could stop us
From spilling out
All of our guts 
Into something now
You and me, my friend
We’ve had our go
You know?

And that’s alright
And that’s alright
And always was
And always was
And always was
And always was
And always was
And always was
And always was
And always was

And that’s alright
And that’s alright
And always was
And that’s alright
And that’s alright
And always was
And that’s alright

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by William J Evans
Music by William J Evans and Nicholas Warren Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

All Cools Down

I saw it clear as I'd hoped
After all these years
You'd say photographs
Leave nothing to talk about
Why stay holding on
If it's all been kept?

Oh, I remember it
So much better now
That I've got nothing to prove
I was there
I was there

You always could
Pull faces right out of the rocks
You'd fill up your phone
With ordinary empty coast
Never needed to show
That you were there

How you'd erase yourself
And I remember it better now
'Cause we had nothing to prove
We were there

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by William J Evans
Music by William J Evans and Nicholas Warren Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Cello by Lillia Keyes
Violin by Sunny Bowers

I Was There

Tried to get away from there
Late enough the coast was clear
We'll go on living
We'll go on living

Can't escape the latest trend
Or friends who find a second wind
They'll go on living
They'll go on living

Take your time (as if I saw)
What's the rush? (it cross your mind)
Make our exit

Come to me so comfortably
Ex-extravert social fatigue
We'll go on living
Quietly quitting

Take your time (as if I saw)
What's the rush? (it cross your mind)
Like before (we're past the point to)
Make our exit

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by Nicholas Warren Evans
Music by Nicholas Warren Evans and William J Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Quiet Quitting

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Music by William J Evans and Nicholas Warren Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Cello by Lillia Keyes
Violin by Sunny Bowers

Still There

Trapped in a way
Perusing it all
I could just scroll
Around the universe alone
It's not like I care
'Til sometimes I do
Notice the leak that's
Slowly filling up the room

Day's last breath is spent
Drenched in your silence

The sun is angled low
Animates the shore
Shadows running out to sea
Into the swell

Took a trip
Deep in the week
Had to get out
Because the walls began to peel
The ginkgo and oak
Showered the street
The mid-morning ghost
You know that I can sometimes be

And I don't mind
Water burns our eyes
Throws us from all sides
A chance to surface right

As sun is angled low
Animates the shore
Shadows running out to sea
Into the swell
All your breath is spent
Falling through the sand
Drenched in the silence

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Music and lyrics by Nicholas Warren Evans and William J Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Drenched In Silence

In a thousand years
You wonder how it'd be
To walk the ancient yards
Of all the places left
Abandoned or eclipsed
Would you notice still
The ones we'd once called home?
I want to take you there
Where we can never go
I want to show you how

This heart aches on and on for you
Forever, all the days we'd lose
Wishing that something
Beautiful would stay
Better keep moving on and on
And on and on and on and on
Better keep moving

You start turning back
Wondering how it's fared
Your love, all overgrown
I want to take you there
Where we can never go
I want to show you how
The garden's spilled over
I want to show you how
This heart aches on and on
This heart aches on and on

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by William J Evans
Music by William J Evans and Nicholas Warren Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Spilled Over

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Music by Nicholas Warren Evans and William J Evans

Produced and mixed by William Evans

Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Morning Air

We were turning into old
Versions of ourselves
If it were only up to me
I’d get used to no one else
We were walking out on ice
Anybody’s guess
Shot the coast in black and white
Know I said I meant to

Change the film
Nothing to show for
How you felt
Sun off your shoulder

Feeling like we’re seventeen
Back where we grew up
So imperfect, in between
Probably my fault
There are days that throw us off
Haven’t read all year
Hard to finish what we start
Been too close to see it clear

And I know what you would say
And I know what you would say

Change the film
Nothing to show for
How you felt
Sun off your shoulder

And I know what you would say
And I know what you would say

Performed by Stray Fossa (W. Evans, N. Evans, Z. Blount)
Lyrics by Nicholas Warren Evans
Music by Nicholas Warren Evans and William J Evans
Produced by William Evans
Cover art by Melissa Santamaría

Change The Film

"Miss the Darker Nights" 

Some see the whole affair 
A start to the end of time 
And pretend not to care 

I miss the darker nights 
Louder than a city fire 
Incessant, emergent 
Hum of a thousand cries 
Booming with the sound of life 
Take a deep breath, inhale it 

Some read the warning signs 
Blind to the wool on their eyes 

How could we think of love 
As if it's not enough 
Someone investing 
Smothered the stars with light 
Forcing them down to shine 
Etched in pavement 

I miss the darker nights 
Louder than a city fire 
And the incessant, emergent 
Hum of a thousand cries 
Booming with the sound of life 
Take a deep breath, inhale it

released August 5, 2018 
Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans 
© 2018 Stray Fossa 

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William J. Evans in Charlottesville, VA. 

Nick Evans: lead vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount: bass 
Will Evans: drums, percussion, vocals

Sleeper Strip

Miss the Darker Nights

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by William Evans 
© 2018 Stray Fossa 

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA. 

Nick Evans: lead vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount: bass, vocals 
Will Evans: drums, percussion, vocals

Commotion

released January 18, 2019 
Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans 
© 2018 Stray Fossa 

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA. 

Nick Evans: lead vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount: bass, vocals 
Will Evans: drums, percussion, synth

Swells

released July 1, 2019 
Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by William Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
It goes it comes the feeling right now
It goes it comes the feeling right now

The time I wait, the time I waste
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste

Eyes

Laridae

Eyze

released August 1, 2019 
Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion
Arielle Korman - violin

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
Never thought that I could be so cold?
Try me
After all the rest have all gone home
And I’m
Living on a caldera how dare I
Temper myself
Fortunate that I’m not 
Sinking
These days
These days

Thinking of the past that other world
Spying
Whose enamored authors wore their 
Better selves?
Honestly the truth seems
Oh, so very empty,
Mislaid 
These days
These days
These days
These days

These Days

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa
 Produced by William Evans 
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Lyrics:
I wanted to get out there anyway,
try to catch a cold in for the day.
To see a film meant more decisions,
and no one watches television.

It’s not that I could help it; to start
I was a kid and cut my own hair in the dark—
belief I found annoying.
The talk of death could get so boring.

Time goes to waste in a year,
and I’m hoping
that we’ll remain friends.
Are you gonna be
okay?

Bet you’re thinking that there must be more to this,
window shopping in a life that you made of glass.
Oh won’t you tell me what you’re feeling,
not another reason.

Look around a land of fibers at the cars,
at the stores all pushing nothing and at once;
hope that you enjoy it—
not that you can own it.

Smile, are you really there,
and you’ll give it
everything that you can?
Timeless and mean in the end,
and you dare it,
all we left unsaid.

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA
© 2020 Stray Fossa

Will Evans: vocals, drums, percussion
Zach Blount: vocals, bass
Nick Evans: vocals, guitars

Cover photo by Steven Miller 
(CC BY 2.0; cropped, full image found here: https://bit.ly/2B7JBpw)

Are You Gonna Be Okay

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa 
Produced by William Evans 

Lyrics:
Split me right from the start
One half deserving more than the other
Lean into stranger thoughts
Stronger than I could dare ignore
Once more once more once more

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer

Now you’re dulling it down
With every vain attempt to relate
As every match holds a fire
In all the histories burnt out of place

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer
No way in love for what was
No way in love for what was
No way in love for what was

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer

Something I could be the first to know
If you’d give it one more chance
I’d give all that I was sure you’d hoped
But I know it’s not the answer

I can’t help it [No way in love for what was]
I want more from it [No way in love for what was]
I can’t help it [No way in love for what was]
I want more from it, from it
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it
[No way in love for what was]
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it, from it
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it
[No way in love for what was]
[If I dream alone is it real love?]
I can’t help it
[No way in love for what was]
I want more from it, from it

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.
© 2020 Stray Fossa

Will Evans: vocals, drums, percussion, synths
Zach Blount: vocals, bass, synths
Nick Evans: vocals, guitars, synths

Cover art by Kris Williams (IG: no_ghsthuntr)

For What Was

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© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

This time seems
There's no getting out 
Of the headspace that 
You made yourself

You don't have it bad, 
But you're mad, and 
You mean to feel significant

Staring down the harm, 
You take it to the sun
To preach at all the pawns;
You don't fool me

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

The kid guards its toy
Like the thing is the last remaining
Sign of home

The freedom to say 
What you want like you can 
When you're among your own

It must be tiresome
To play a victim,
It must feel so absurd;
You don't fool me 
   
Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Put down the guns
Come take a walk
Why don't you try
To get along?
It's not that hard
It never was 
To be a part
To be someone

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

With You For Ever

Hypocritic

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© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

I don't belong here
Pass another season
Move along dear
It's the best kind of moment
The kind that goes 
It's the best kind of moment
When we never know, when

It cuts in
Like a razor blade,
Smooth sail
Between sky and lake
It's the best kind of moment
The kind we love
It's the best kind of moment
Passing over us

The summer
Melts like ice on black
Pavement,
Scrapes the knees
And takes me back
It's the best kind of moment
The kind that goes
It's the best kind of moment
And now it's gone, oh no

I've noticed
You're not the same
You've changed
Time to save some face
It's the best kind of moment
The kind we love
It's the best kind of moment
And now it's gone

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA

Best Kind Of Moment

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© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

My sun'll rise, and I know
It's not much longer now
Somewhere begins a future
A stranger to ourselves
What's left of me and you 
Is a geyser rushing out at night
No chance to see it through,
To feel it boil out from under

I can't keep waking up   
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm looking at you always)
To dreams of orange days 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm ready to lose our way)
That held us in her arms 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm pushing away the truth)
And kept us for a while

Our time has come
To uncover every answer kept
Beneath the white burn of August
That carries us to bed
What chance to see it through
If the moment falls out from under
And holds a heavy heart
In the open odds of ever landing

I can't keep waking up   
I can't keep waking up   

I can't keep waking up   
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm looking at you always)
To dreams of orange days 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm ready to lose our way)
That held us in her arms 
(Somewhere, somehow 
I'm pushing away the truth)
And kept us for a while

Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by William Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA

Orange Days

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