Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings (live acoustic)

Live acoustic version of "ceilings" by Lizzy McAlpine

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Music Credits:
Written and Performed by Lizzy McAlpine
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Caleb Parker

Video Team:
Will Noyce
Jeremy Ivory-Chambers
Brian Niles
Emilia Haddad

Produced by Fengari

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Lyrics:

ceilings, plaster
can’t you just make it move faster?
lovely to be sitting here with you you’re kinda cute but it’s

raining, harder
my shoes are now full of water
lovely to be rained on with you it’s kinda cute but it’s

so short
then you’re driving me home
and i don’t want to leave but i have to go
you kiss me in your car and it feels like the start of a movie i’ve seen before
before

bed sheets, no clothes
touch me like nobody else does lovely to just lay here with you
you’re kinda cute and I

would say all of this
but i don’t wanna ruin the moment
lovely to sit between comfort and chaos

but it’s over
then you’re driving me home
and it kind of comes out as i get up to go
you kiss me in your car and it feels like the start of a movie i’ve seen before

but it’s not real
and you don’t exist
and i can’t recall the last time i was kissed
it hits me in the car and it feels like the end of a movie i’ve seen before before

[LizzyMcAlpine]

'Older', the new album, out now!

[KelliHarrah]

She sounds exactly like she does on the recording. Which means she’s ultra talented.

[davidmaria]

Ceilings is one of my all time favourite... I can't even describe how much I can relate to this song and HOW WELL IT IS WRITTEN LIKE DAMN

[grannylife]

dude her range and the way she seamlessly switches between chest and head voice is so incredible

[covers._.]

THE “BUT ITS NOT REAL” was mesmerizing

[CtrusBoy]

We need MORE acoustic versions. They are just a delight

[jgpix]

Ok, I’m a 45 year old Dad…I’m not ashamed to say that I love the music that Lizzy makes. I really can’t explain it but she’s reaching into my soul with this stuff. I can’t remember that happening since the first time I heard Joni Mitchell. She deserves way more recognition than she gets. I have no doubt that someday ..the rest of the world will find out what they’re missing.

[thiswillnotdo]

i think its cool how so many people have different interpretatinos of this song. Some people think of it as a breakup song, others like me feel like its an anthem for hopeless romantics who live in our own heads because love is terrifying in real life

[madelaxia]

“but it’s not real, and you don’t exist” hits so hard🥺🥺

[HappyNBoy]

I've said it before, but this song is absolutely tremendous. I think the production on the record is immaculate and so impressive, but the song stands up so well when it's just vocals and acoustic guitar. It's a masterpiece of a song.

[shai.p]

This song was a cure for me during the hardest time of my life. Being in a position where you love someone who doesn't love you back and doesn't feel the same way, you start to believe things that happen in your dreams. You get so lost in those feelings that you start to miss the line between fantasy and reality- until it hits you. when you realize it's not real and the person you love so much is not really that person, you fell in love with a person that you mostly made up in your dreams and mind. It hurts the most when you realize that. To anyone who's reading this and facing the same problem- my only advice is that you try to bare it. There's nothing you can do. Things will get easier with time but I still don't feel "cured" from this feeling after all this time, but time moves on and so will you. You can do it. Good luck.

[DallasCoryell]

"I can't recall the last time I was kissed" - Damn Lizzy...this just hits different 😔

[budw]

‘Five seconds flat” is the album of the year, and this is one of my all time favorite songs. The emotion conveyed by Lizzy is something you feel in the core of your sole. Lizzy’s fans (of all ages) genuinely feel this emotion and have responded with much deserved adoration. She is destined for greatness.
There are things that can be explained to others, and things that can’t. You either feel what she is singing about emotionally or you don’t.
It can be hard for me not get emotional knowing that the songs are about real experiences she has lived through. I do hope Lizzy finds the “love of her life” soon. She deserves it.

[jac]

i sobbed and screamed to this song during my last breakup. it hurt but especially because it happened the week before we had planned to go to new york city together. the lyrics are just so beautiful and raw and real and hearing it acoustically is even more tearjerking. great work as always <33

[yurimarques]

can we talk about the fact that her voice sounds EXACTLY the same (and even better) as the studio version?

[noelle]

screaming crying, im in love with this song. and the live version is just, AH, beautiful, angelic, everything.

[elizabethshk]

Came across this song almost by accident and I'm genuinely stunned... This song has made me realise - for the first time - how beautiful it is that every time you listen to a new piece of music it might speak to you in a way nothing else has, it might become your favourite song, or bookmark the next chapter of your life.

[oscarwaterman]

ceilings is definitely my favorite song off five seconds flat. i remember the first time i heard it in the car i pulled over and just cried and then listened to it another 8 times until i knew it by heart. something about this song just hits me right in my chest and this live rendition is so fucking powerful im so grateful to be alive while you're making music lizzy. thank you

[yamony.]

Did anyone else notice how this song loops perfectly?? Every time I click on this I can't help but listen to it over and over and over again

[NurHabibah-bk]

her voice sounds like soft rain, so comforting