We Are Scientists return with the third single from their upcoming album 'Qualifying Miles', out on the 18th July via Groenland Records, sharing the emotionally charged 'What You Want Is Gone', a poignant indie-rock slow-burner that blends shimmering guitar lines with a lyrical sense of reckoning and resolve.
Anchored by a wistful looping riff and Keith Murray’s earnest vocal delivery, the track captures the weight of missed chances and late realisations, encapsulated in the refrain: “You can’t just wait around for what you want / if what you want is gone.” Drawing from the sonic palette of early-2000s indie ballads, it’s a track that finds quiet catharsis in its rise and fall, a reflection of lessons learned a little too late.
Murray explains the song as a departure from his early writing ethos of “celebrating total passivity,” joking that it only took two decades to trade inertia for a little hard-earned self-awareness.
'What You Want Is Gone' follows on from 'I Could Do Much Worse' and 'Please Don’t Say It', continuing a strong run of singles ahead of the band’s much-anticipated ninth studio album. Watch the new video for it in the player below.
