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Sixteen Floors
03:26
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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
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Like I Used To
03:25
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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
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City of Angels
03:53
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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
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Nineteen
03:29
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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?
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Promised Land
03:48
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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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