The Strays

"The Strays" is a song by Sleeping with Sirens, released as a single through Epitaph Records. It serves as the sixth track from their fourth studio album, Madness. The music video was posted to YouTube on May 5, 2015, directed by the film company, Sitcom Soldiers. Lyrics are about uncertainty in life, not belonging, but being okay with that.

Composition and lyrics
As reported in an interview with radio.com, frontman Kellin Quinn shared, "A lot of kids go to college and spend a lot of getting degrees and get out of school and have no idea how to get a job, or can't get a job… It goes back to having that belief and positive feeling in yourself. The idea behind the lyric isn't necessarily the person saying that you'd be nothing but kind of really putting forth that power of, "But I am! [going to amount to something]" and just having that self belief rather than relying on other people to make you feel a certain way."