Promised Land

from Sixteen Floors by Caroline Vermillion

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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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from Sixteen Floors, released September 13, 2016

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