Biography:
Catherine Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina soon after) is a critically acclaimed American singer-songwriter, musician. She is currently based in New York.
Merritt's father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. She began her professional career in 1998 with her band The Carbines playing small clubs. In her early twenties, though Tift had gigged by herself, she decided she was not very good at music and better suited for writing short stories.
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Other songs:
- Aint Looking Closely
- All The Reasons We Dont Have To Fight
- Another Country
- Bird Of Freedom
- Broken
- Diamond Shoes
- Drifted Apart
- Eastern Light
- Engine To Turn
- Feel Of The World
- Feeling Of Beauty
- Good Hearted Man
- Hopes Too High
- I Am Your Tambourine
- I Know Him Too
- I Know What Im Looking For Now
- Keep You Happy
- Laid A Highway
- Late Night Pilgrim
- Little Birds
- Live Till You Die
- Mixtape
- Morning Is My Destination
- My Heart Is Free
- Never Talk About It
- Plainest Thing
- See You On The Moon
- Shadow In The Way
- Six More Days Of Rain
- Small Talk Relations
- Something To Me
- Still Not Home
- Still Pretending
- Stray Paper
- Sunday
- Supposed To Make You Happy
- Sweet Spot
- Tender Branch
- Too Soon To Go
- Traveling Alone
- Trouble Over Me
- Virginia No One Can Warn You
- Wait It Out
- Write My Ticket
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Tift Merritt - Ain't Looking Closely
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: Em A Em A Em
A Em
Perfect sky
Dm C F C Em
The sun and I are going our own way
A Em
I can tell
Dm C F C
No one else gonna know how to love me
G C
But the wind with its hands on my face
A C
And the tall grass, lord, how it shakes
Em Dm C
All of my worries, worry about me for a change
CHORUS:
G C
'Cause I ain't looking closely today
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
Like a river so wide, I'm gonna let it slide___ away
INTERLUDE: Em A Em A Em
A Em
Long way off
Dm C F C Em
Someone calling, ain't calling my name
A Em
Old blue jay
Dm C F C
Fly away, rather than explain
G C
Water carries voices and the devil may care
A C
Me, I don't have an answer to spare
Em Dm C
No use in asking, I'm feeling the same
CHORUS:
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
I'm feeling so high I'm gonna let it fly___ away
INSTRUMENTAL: Dm C Dm C Dm C G C A C
CHORUS
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G C
I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
Like a river so wide, I'm gonna let it slide___ away
CHORUS
G C
Oh, I ain't looking closely today
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
I'm feeling so high I'm gonna let it fly___ away
OUTRO: (## repeat and fade to end ##))
Em A Em A Em A
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: Em A Em A Em
A Em
Perfect sky
Dm C F C Em
The sun and I are going our own way
A Em
I can tell
Dm C F C
No one else gonna know how to love me
G C
But the wind with its hands on my face
A C
And the tall grass, lord, how it shakes
Em Dm C
All of my worries, worry about me for a change
CHORUS:
G C
'Cause I ain't looking closely today
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
Like a river so wide, I'm gonna let it slide___ away
INTERLUDE: Em A Em A Em
A Em
Long way off
Dm C F C Em
Someone calling, ain't calling my name
A Em
Old blue jay
Dm C F C
Fly away, rather than explain
G C
Water carries voices and the devil may care
A C
Me, I don't have an answer to spare
Em Dm C
No use in asking, I'm feeling the same
CHORUS:
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
I'm feeling so high I'm gonna let it fly___ away
INSTRUMENTAL: Dm C Dm C Dm C G C A C
CHORUS
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G C
I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
Like a river so wide, I'm gonna let it slide___ away
CHORUS
G C
Oh, I ain't looking closely today
G C
No, I ain't looking closely today
G Dm7 C
I'm feeling so high I'm gonna let it fly___ away
OUTRO: (## repeat and fade to end ##))
Em A Em A Em A
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