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Future Past Present Tense

by The Color Study

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1.
Somewhere 03:27
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Somewhere near the ending I heard your voice beginning To say something familiar, but I cannot remember you I want to be in love with someone new Or maybe fall in love again with you It might take forever but i can wait for longer Never waste a chance to say goodbye Open door, waving back at me I saw everyone, and then I saw everything We're not careful with our alters We give our offering to others Broken light on broken bodies We all repeat our stories I want to be in love with someone new Or maybe fall in love again with you It might take forever but i can wait for longer Never waste a chance to say goodbye Open door, waving back at me I saw everyone, and then I saw everything We fire at 50 paces At figures in the darkness Never waste a chance to say goodbye
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1983 03:16
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I found a picture on the back it reads Happy birthday from the 70s I remember you with bloody knees Riding bikes in 1983 We're closer to the end of this parade and then we'll start again Little brother wears his broken wings Young lovers with suburban dreams Your best friend smiles through his broken teeth These neighborhoods are never what they seem You're closer to the end of this parade then you'll start again Reflected light, reflected rays Colors bloom and colors fade Every love inside a frame Repeated infinite and great Another take and take and take replayed You'll fall in love when you are 17 You'll fall in love with everyone you see A face that's ageless in a memory Your body frozen in a fantasy We're closer to the end of this parade and then we'll start again
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Quiet (again) 05:28
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What's left of us When you take All of the pieces That once fit in places Rearrange them Leaving spaces now vacant, again Cracks in the ceiling Let the light in again Shining brightly on my skin Hands are freezing feeling nothing but they're bleeding for believing It's quiet again The feeling Of falling without end Saying all your goodbyes Call up all your friends Voices over speakers Everything's in order Everything is right on Time to get this going Nothing lasts forever In the end What will come next After the coldest winter yet Swimming in air You're falling forever Tumbling down Scream at the bottom Can someone hear me now It's quiet again
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Future Past Present Tense 05:11
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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 we 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 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
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Satellite 03:33
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I want to be a satellite I want to be a stone thats falling through your ceiling Or breaking through your window Spinning in the darkness The quiet and the cold Everything you lost is With every love that you have known Maybe somewhere Near the end When you hear me I'll be calling Can you see me now It goes on and on If everything's a figment Eternity a moment Played inside the fevered frames of some great picture Then the operators That keep the scenes in order Shine their light upon us To brighten up the darkest corners Maybe somewhere Near the end When you hear me I'll be calling Can you see me now It goes on and on In some future morning When everything has ended The stars turn off their porch lights And everything is sleeping I’ll find you in the quiet We’ll wait for the beginning Forever keeps repeating I’ll be with you singing I can see you now I can see you now It goes on and on
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I Wanted Light / Between 05:02
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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 your lovers in the south Your diet coke and your cigarette 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 know 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 I guess 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
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Sidewalk 04:27
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I can see you on the sunny side of the sidewalk I wear a raincoat, to make it rain So I can sleep in wet clothes It’s the thing i deserve most Underneath these volcanoes Buried deep in the fallen snow Every beginning a broken hearted ending Somebody’s crying, with every word that you’re reading But you can go to sleep when You’re still looking for reasons That keep getting lost when You try to believe them Is this the end or the beginning? I can hear your voice every night when you’re sleeping You tell me that you miss someone maybe we all miss someone The hidden sound of sorrow that follows us around It keeps us screaming Every night until we drown it all out If every love is an angry god Please make an offering out on the lawn No salvation, I won’t go down to the water So when it takes me, I’ll go on fire Is this the end or the beginning of the ending Tie off the ends of me I've come undone We’re torn to pieces and split our seams Try to do your best on me We always do our best
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Echos (in echos) 05:30
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I think I can see you from my window Whisper through the screen door “Everything repeats, were coming to the end now” Maybe you'll be walking somewhere and hear Someone losing it and you’ll turn to see Me screaming at the pigeons again Echo in echos within echos Echo in echos within echos Circles in circles within circles I think I read about you in the paper again You’re living in a city I’ll never see married to someone that i’ll never meet You speak from a sidewalk tv screen In some foreign language you say to me “Je te verrai bientôt” my love? My love Echo in echos within echos Echo in echos within echos Circles in circles within circles I will see you soon What is the sum, of everything multiplied by everyone , carried remainders of love that you won, the hurt that you’ve given and that you’ve grown from. If you could see every beautiful temporary memory made every time that we meet, you’d forget everything. Lost and then found over and over and over the sound foreign familiar the echos surround me, but I'll know your voice
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Savior || Death 03:28
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You took me down to the river And held my head under water “I might be your Savior or your death” Or something else instead You remind me of someone that I might soon forget Borrowed your ghost skin And pretend that we’re not living But I am not hidden, I’m out in the open Dance with me in daylight While darkness closes in One day always ends for another to begin If we fall apart by winter What's left for the rain and wind I have been trying to tell you a secret There’s nobody looking and nobody listening try building a ladder, but you’ll never reach it You’re laughing and crying, please stop your crying Now do you remember What comes after waiting Forever, be patient Your memory is fading It's cold and alone Cold and alone Then I heard your voice, I heard your voice
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Find Me (any other way) 05:45
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Letters we write but will never send There’s no way to read them in the end Written with words we’ll forget You can find me any other way Call on me by someones else's name I'll know your voice all the same Somewhere near the beginning of the end I’ll wait for you again, i’ll wait, always Forever without, light or sound I'm calling out And when, the final light goes dark We will watch it all restart Maybe there's a secret hidden place That we will go and wait I’ll wait, always Forever without, light or sound I'm calling out And when, the final light goes dark We will wait for the first spark

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released November 11, 2022

Melissa Atillo - Keys / Piano, Percussion, Vocals
Matt Jackson - Bass
Steven Reinhardt - Guitar
Andy Jacobs - Drums, Vocals
Miguel Mendoza - Horn, Percussion
Andrew Lyons - Sax
Sarah More - Art
Recorded and Mixed by Scott Oliphant at Parkway Sounds
Additional Mixing guidance, Larry Crane
Mastered by Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound NJ

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The Color Study Bend, Oregon

The Color Study started as the studio project of Scott Oliphant and has since evolved into a 6 (and growing) piece band that is bringing the debut, self-titled album from the studio to the stage.

Live and in the studio, the band veers from quieter moments of melancholic instrospection to giant wall of sound sonic productions. ... more

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