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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- 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
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- My Heart Is Free
- Never Talk About It
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- 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
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- Sweet Spot
- Tender Branch
- Too Soon To Go
- Traveling Alone
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Tift Merritt - Hopes Too High
## NOTE: ~ = Walk-Down from F ##
CAPO: 1st Fret
INTRO: C
Listen baby, I won't leave no trace
Gonna light out of here for some cleaner place
D
I'll be sitting in the backseat with my hair in my face
G
Gone fast, as freedom on good wind
CHORUS:
N.C. F ~ G
If I got my hopes too high
C F
This is no easy kind of life
~ Dm F G
Here in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
N.C. C
I can't keep from trying
No place to run for a girl like me
Whole lot of used to's and supposed to be's
D
I want to burn like August, shine like gold dust
G
Where everyday living can't hold me
CHORUS:
N.C. F ~ G
If I got my hopes too high
C F
This is no easy kind of life
~ Dm F G
See in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
N.C. C
I can't keep from trying
INSTRUMENTAL: Dm Em Dm Am Dm Em F G
N.C. C
So when I reach for you from some way down place
Don't be a stranger who won't show his face
D
I got no promise, but these words I say
G
I carry you, you carry me
CHORUS:
N.C. F ~ G
If I got my hopes too high
C F
This is no easy kind of life
~ Dm F G
See in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
C
I can't keep from trying
Dm F G
I see it in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
N.C. C
I can't keep from trying
## NOTE: ~ = Walk-Down from F ##
CAPO: 1st Fret
INTRO: C
Listen baby, I won't leave no trace
Gonna light out of here for some cleaner place
D
I'll be sitting in the backseat with my hair in my face
G
Gone fast, as freedom on good wind
CHORUS:
N.C. F ~ G
If I got my hopes too high
C F
This is no easy kind of life
~ Dm F G
Here in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
N.C. C
I can't keep from trying
No place to run for a girl like me
Whole lot of used to's and supposed to be's
D
I want to burn like August, shine like gold dust
G
Where everyday living can't hold me
CHORUS:
N.C. F ~ G
If I got my hopes too high
C F
This is no easy kind of life
~ Dm F G
See in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
N.C. C
I can't keep from trying
INSTRUMENTAL: Dm Em Dm Am Dm Em F G
N.C. C
So when I reach for you from some way down place
Don't be a stranger who won't show his face
D
I got no promise, but these words I say
G
I carry you, you carry me
CHORUS:
N.C. F ~ G
If I got my hopes too high
C F
This is no easy kind of life
~ Dm F G
See in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
C
I can't keep from trying
Dm F G
I see it in my mind's eye, touch me real as daytime
N.C. C
I can't keep from trying
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