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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Tift Merritt - All The Reasons We Don't Have To Fight
CAPO: 1st Fret
INTRO: G Am C (3x) G
N.C. Am D
We used to sleep real late
G
Play our records loud
Am D
Times we were broke
G
We'd laugh about it
Am D
Sometimes we'd just leave town
G
Go down to the shore
Am
Watch the waves close out
C G
Just to be close, to be close
CHORUS:
Dm7
I don't wanna fight anymore
C G
'Bout what we lost or things we swore
Dm7 C G
I didn't mean what I said last night
Dm7
I love you more than who is right and wrong
C G
I wanna stay and I make this song
Dm7 C
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
G
I don't wanna fight
INTERLUDE: Am G Am G Am G
N.C. Am D
These words we shout
G
Well, who's to say
Am D
Where they will go
G
When they fall away?
Am D
Maybe they hang around
G
With the lonely kids
Am
With a balled up fist
C G
Saying, "You did this, you did this"
CHORUS:
Dm7
I don't wanna fight anymore
C G
'Bout what we lost or things we swore
Dm7 C G
I didn't mean what I said last night
Dm7
I love you more than who is right and wrong
C G
I'm gonna stay and I make this song
Dm7 C
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
G
I don't wanna fight
INSTRUMENTAL: G Am C G
N.C. Am D
The morning light
G
Goes red to grey
Am D
On what we've broken
G
And throw away
Am D
If I could I just know how
G
To walk away from my pride
Am
Could you help me out?
C G
Can we put it back, put it back?
CHORUS:
Dm7
I don't wanna fight anymore
C G
I don't even know what it started for
Dm7 C G
I didn't mean what I said last night
Dm7
I love you more than who is right and wrong
C G
I stayed up late and I made this song
Dm7 C
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
G
I don't wanna fight
OUTRO: Am G Am G Am G
CAPO: 1st Fret
INTRO: G Am C (3x) G
N.C. Am D
We used to sleep real late
G
Play our records loud
Am D
Times we were broke
G
We'd laugh about it
Am D
Sometimes we'd just leave town
G
Go down to the shore
Am
Watch the waves close out
C G
Just to be close, to be close
CHORUS:
Dm7
I don't wanna fight anymore
C G
'Bout what we lost or things we swore
Dm7 C G
I didn't mean what I said last night
Dm7
I love you more than who is right and wrong
C G
I wanna stay and I make this song
Dm7 C
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
G
I don't wanna fight
INTERLUDE: Am G Am G Am G
N.C. Am D
These words we shout
G
Well, who's to say
Am D
Where they will go
G
When they fall away?
Am D
Maybe they hang around
G
With the lonely kids
Am
With a balled up fist
C G
Saying, "You did this, you did this"
CHORUS:
Dm7
I don't wanna fight anymore
C G
'Bout what we lost or things we swore
Dm7 C G
I didn't mean what I said last night
Dm7
I love you more than who is right and wrong
C G
I'm gonna stay and I make this song
Dm7 C
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
G
I don't wanna fight
INSTRUMENTAL: G Am C G
N.C. Am D
The morning light
G
Goes red to grey
Am D
On what we've broken
G
And throw away
Am D
If I could I just know how
G
To walk away from my pride
Am
Could you help me out?
C G
Can we put it back, put it back?
CHORUS:
Dm7
I don't wanna fight anymore
C G
I don't even know what it started for
Dm7 C G
I didn't mean what I said last night
Dm7
I love you more than who is right and wrong
C G
I stayed up late and I made this song
Dm7 C
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
G
I don't wanna fight
OUTRO: Am G Am G Am G
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