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 - Engine To Turn
CAPO: 1st Fret
INTRO: C F Am F
C F
I don't know how to fix the world
Am F
I don't know how to fix myself
C F
Seems like we both need some love
Am F
seems like we both need some help
C F
Maybe you could fix with might
Am F
Maybe you could just stare it down
C F
Seems like some tenderness
Am F
Could turn the whole thing around
CHORUS:
C Am
I'm just trying to get the engine to turn
C Am
I'm just trying to smile through my tears
C Am
And I still got so much to learn
C Am
But the best I can, is what I got to give
F C
Gonna give it while I'm here
F
Most days I want to speed up
Am F
Seems like I ought to slow down
C F
Maybe the pieces are here
Am F
Got to take a good look around
C F
Maybe the world feels like me
Am F
Wishing someone would sing it a song
C F
About how there's a lot of good here
Am F
About how it's done nothing wrong
CHORUS:
C Am
I'm just trying to get the engine to turn
C Am
I'm just trying to smile through my tears
C Am
And I still got so much to learn
C Am
But the best I can, is what I got to give
F C G
Gonna give it while I'm here
BRIDGE:
Am
Sometimes there's a choir in my head
F C
Singing at the top of their voice
F Am
Singing at the top of their voice
C G F
They sing, "Don't look back"
C G F
"Don't be scared"
C G F Am G
"Don't be scared_____"
CHORUS:
C Am
I'm just trying to get the engine to turn
C Am
I'm just trying to smile through my tears
C Am
And I still got so much to learn
C Am
But the best I can, is what I got to give
F C
Gonna give it while I'm here
CAPO: 1st Fret
INTRO: C F Am F
C F
I don't know how to fix the world
Am F
I don't know how to fix myself
C F
Seems like we both need some love
Am F
seems like we both need some help
C F
Maybe you could fix with might
Am F
Maybe you could just stare it down
C F
Seems like some tenderness
Am F
Could turn the whole thing around
CHORUS:
C Am
I'm just trying to get the engine to turn
C Am
I'm just trying to smile through my tears
C Am
And I still got so much to learn
C Am
But the best I can, is what I got to give
F C
Gonna give it while I'm here
F
Most days I want to speed up
Am F
Seems like I ought to slow down
C F
Maybe the pieces are here
Am F
Got to take a good look around
C F
Maybe the world feels like me
Am F
Wishing someone would sing it a song
C F
About how there's a lot of good here
Am F
About how it's done nothing wrong
CHORUS:
C Am
I'm just trying to get the engine to turn
C Am
I'm just trying to smile through my tears
C Am
And I still got so much to learn
C Am
But the best I can, is what I got to give
F C G
Gonna give it while I'm here
BRIDGE:
Am
Sometimes there's a choir in my head
F C
Singing at the top of their voice
F Am
Singing at the top of their voice
C G F
They sing, "Don't look back"
C G F
"Don't be scared"
C G F Am G
"Don't be scared_____"
CHORUS:
C Am
I'm just trying to get the engine to turn
C Am
I'm just trying to smile through my tears
C Am
And I still got so much to learn
C Am
But the best I can, is what I got to give
F C
Gonna give it while I'm here
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