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Sixteen Floors

by Caroline Vermillion

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1.
May the bridges we burn light the way You're the soundtrack to my college days I want to wake up with my makeup on your shirt May the city lights guide us home Every night, make me your own I want to be everything you never thought you'd need Miles away from everything I've ever thought I've known In the loneliness of a crowded city I found you as my home Sixteen floors above the sidewalk with a stranger who's my friend Thanks to you and a little bit of Boston, I found myself again I'm drunk on you and high off the city Pretend I don't know it when you tell me I'm pretty We're drinking the rain and loving the same mistakes So when that cigarette burns out light another or stay on my couch if you promise me you won't leave when I fall asleep Miles away from everything I've ever thought I've known In the loneliness of a crowded city I found you as my home Sixteen floors above the sidewalk with a stranger who's my friend Thanks to you and a little bit of Boston, I found myself again So may the bridges we burn light the way You're the soundtrack to my college days I want to wake up with my makeup on your shirt May the city lights guide us home Every night make me your own I want to be everything you never thought you'd need
2.
You can take my favorite side of the bed You can take the books that I gave you that I know you never read You can say goodbye to good mornings and 'hello sleepy head' I can't take back the words I swore by that you never said I hope it feels wrong when she sits in my place On the red leather sofa where you and I swore we'd never be this way I miss the times of small paychecks and dreaming the biggest dreams Your plans got to big to fit me, like we always believed I don't love you like I used to You never loved me at all A big misconception I lost my direction I jumped but you didn't fall No I don't love you like I used to you couldn't say the same I don't love you like I used to Oh, my my, how times change I always think of you when I hear 'Stars Go Blue' How we danced all night in nothing but smiles in the light of the living room It hurts me now to see how your hand holds around her waist Like a piece in a puzzle oh, I did't fit, you never looked at me that way I don't love you like I used to You never loved me at all A big misconception I lost my direction I jumped but you didn't fall No I don't love you like I used to you couldn't say the same I don't love you like I used to Oh, my my, how times change You can take my favorite side of the bed You can take the books that I gave you that I know you never read
3.
Sitting crooked, and just looking at your photographs on the wall reminiscing, and just wishing you missed me at all Took your records from where you left them, and gave them away Don't need a constant reminder that you didn't stay I hope you like the city of the angels You won't find this angel anymore Hope you get everything you wanted Three-thousand miles from the Carolina shore and I hope you find just what you're looking for I'm trying hard to be a whole person not the half you left behind It's so hard to move on when I'm always reminded of the times we spent in New Orleans, dancing barefoot on the street Then you took back your things and the promises you couldn't keep I hope you like the city of the angels You won't find this angel anymore Hope you get everything you wanted Three-thousand miles from the Carolina shore and I hope you find just what you're looking for I know it's sunny in Los Angeles In Carolina we've got rain If you ever come back This little angel has flown away I hope you like the city of the angels You won't find this angel anymore Hope you get everything you wanted Three-thousand miles from the Carolina shore and I hope you find just what you're looking for You swore LA could give you everything you'd ever need Funny how LA doesn't have another me
4.
Nineteen 03:29
What's another breath I'm too numb to feel What's another blown-out candle on another year What's another unopened greeting card in my top drawer They're all yours Next to my bed I keep your picture in a frame With a short prayer from when the preacher said, bow your heads and pray The fucking lucky world held you for nearly two decades Then took you away Happy nineteenth birthday Happy nineteenth birthday Happy nineteenth birthday From a lifetime away You'd wear that flowered scarf wrapped around your beautiful mind All the days I left you home I did't know I didn't have much time You would laugh and I'd smile about the years flown by Then I'd step outside Happy nineteenth birthday Happy nineteenth birthday Happy nineteenth birthday From a lifetime away I got tired of cursing I got tired of spitting at heaven Realized time was our deadliest weapon I held your hand in that sterile bed with your bracelets of tubes And I would sing to you Happy nineteenth birthday Happy nineteenth birthday Happy nineteenth birthday From a lifetime away What's another breath I'm too numb to feel What's another blown-out candle on another year?
5.
The chapel crumbled when I was tired so I let it fall Hands in my pocket because it's not my problem, not my fault Now I'm buried deep beneath the stone forcing me into the ground Well Jerusalem is winning It got the best of me somehow Oh Father, Oh Father Help me find the land Drain the ocean, part the sea Force my knees upon the sand Maybe I got comfortable with an unholy man So lock me out of the Promised Land The water is stained with sinner's blood again Tried to rid these hands of problems and threw my body in Now I'm trying to keep my head above the water, I'm drowning now The Red Sea is winning It got the best of me somehow Oh Father, Oh Father Help me find the land Drain the ocean, part the sea Force my knees upon the sand Maybe I got comfortable with an unholy man So lock me out of the Promised Land Amazing Grace, what have you done to me? I liked it better in the dark, now I have to see Amazing Grace how sweet the sound Of a shovel digging my hole in the ground Amazing Grace what have you done to me? I liked it better in the dark now I have to see Amazing Grace couldn't save a wretch like me Oh Father, Oh Father Help me find the land Drain the ocean, part the sea Force my knees upon the sand Maybe I got comfortable with an unholy man So lock me out of the Promised Land Oh Father, Oh Father Help me find the land Drain the ocean, part the sea Force my knees upon the sand Maybe I got comfortable with an unholy man So lock me out of the Promised Land

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Every song on this EP was written during my freshman year of college, from the comfort of my dorm room on the 16th floor, overlooking the city of Boston. The songs and words on this EP were inspired by the people and friends who surrounded me throughout this time. That being said, this EP is for you: the friends who slept on my floor, and let me sleep of theirs; the friends who shared clothes, laughs, and cries; the friends who joined me at swing dances, tattoo parlors, and on late night train rides; the friends that taught me how to be open, when to be closed, and how to re-string my guitar; the friends who are not friends, but family.

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released September 13, 2016

Music and Lyrics- Caroline Vermillion
Vocals-Caroline Vermillion
Keys, Drums, Bass, Guitar- Jered McKenna
Production & Engineering- Jered McKenna

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