Everybody’s gotta wait and see
What gets cut out and then what will make the movie
The happy ending’s always bringing out the critic in me 
I wanted light, It’s out
I wanted comfort but it’s quiet company now
Don’t forget that it was given by the others in the south
Your diet coke and your cigarettes
Your first kiss in that college apartment
Living lives your parents never knew about 
Why can’t you say you’re sorry 
Why can’t you just listen
Are you the sum of every 
Mistake you’ve made since then
Can I believe in something 
Or maybe just pretend 
There’s something waiting in the end 
The worlds still on fire 
Maybe It will always be
So strange, how our lives so suddenly will weave
Inside, and out
Of lines like drivers after going out
The strangers we all become eventually will meet 
I want to know what's left
I want to where they have hidden it
The darkest, places you were warned about
Why can’t you say you’re sorry 
Why can’t you just listen
Are you the sum of every 
Mistake you’ve made since then
Can I believe in something 
Or maybe just pretend 
There’s something waiting in the end 
There is no evil that awaits
No angry god that’s giving grace
maybe no secret hid 
No one enlightened 
Maybe we will have to wait and see, what comes, after the end of everything
I wanted light but i think it’s gone out / i wanted light but now I think it’s gone out

I Wanted Light / Between

Are you looking for this
Or maybe looking for someone that you’re going to miss 
Late at night in the summer 
Cross eyed kids caught in the lens of someone’s camera
How many times have me met
How many lines are running parallel and never connect 
You spend your life with a stranger 
In another they’ve driven their car into the water 

Believe me, believe in something better than this
Or should we try to put it all back together again
You’re leaving 
What’s leaving but another way to be missed
Or should we try to put the pieces back together again

Someone give me a hit
I need something that will get me out of this quick 
Turned my head just to see you
A Quick kiss a in the hallway by the bedroom 
Everything that we lost 
The clothes we keep out of the suitcase we pack in the dark
I cannot get rid of feeling 
That the beginning will one day meet up with the ending 

Believe me, believe in something better than this
Or should we try to put it all back together again
You’re leaving
What’s leaving but another way to forget
Or should we try to put the pieces back together again

And the cities we lived in 
may turn out just to be places that used to exist 
Before any of this 
Before your idiot kiss
Your future past and present tense

Believe me, Believe in something better than this
Or should we try to put it all back together again
You’re leaving 
What’s leaving but another way to forgive
Or should we try to put the pieces back together again

Future Past Present Tense

Somewhere

I don’t know what i’m doing or even what direction this ship is headed in. I go to sleep on ceilings, it keeps away the demons this house is haunted with. Burn down the city to kill the snake. Biting down on my tongue now to stay awake. I’m getting used to living without you. There is no easy answer, and no one knows the questions. We will keep listening. And will we love another, what if we ask forever? I can’t keep falling for some strangers, surround me, keeping me awake. 
There’s something about you that I can’t escape.

I’ve been trying to tell you, I feel like I’m being erased. Drawing on a chalkboard, a long list of my mistakes. Maybe there is a stranger? Maybe there is a face.
That will save us from this fate. I’m getting used to living without you.

Without

Turn Around

Open The Windows

The Color Study is a rock band from Oregon. Their self titled debut, recorded by Scott Oliphant at his studio Parkway Sounds before forming the band, was released June 18, 2020. Available on all digital platforms, streaming, and vinyl / cd / cassette at our store.

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