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 - Keep You Happy
INTRO: C
Em F Em C
The sky is turning and longing for something far away
Em F Em F
The moon's a tear drop, see it slowly, as he falls away
Em F
Miles running down a face
Em Am
Everything's bound to change
Em Am
It's bound to change
PRE-CHORUS:
C Am
Day breaks of tenderness
C
So hold me here like this
Dm F
So still and quiet as if it might
CHORUS:
C
Keep you happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
C
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
F C
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
Em F Em C
A feeling has me and tells me it will never stay
Em F Em F
Your heart beats miles now, I feel them as they fly away
Em F
Close gets so far away
Em Am
Close gets so far
PRE-CHORUS:
C Am
Day breaks of loneliness
C
I'd weather all of this
Dm F
If I could find a place where I'd
CHORUS:
C
Keep you happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
C
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
F Em
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
BRIDGE:
Am F Em Am
Why do we pretend there is something to hold onto?
F
See how my world fell in
Em Dm
I was trying to hold you
Em Dm C
I was trying to hold you
Em F Em C
Night is a gypsy who tells me he will never stay
Em F Em F
Miles are like heart beats, I know them as they fly away
Em F
See how they fly away
Em Am
See as I fly
PRE-CHORUS:
C Am
Day breaks of restlessness
C
I'm filled with all of this
Dm F
But deep inside, what will I find
CHORUS:
C
To keep me happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep me happy
C
Oh, oh, oh, keep me happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep me happy
Oh, oh, oh
OUTRO: C F (## repeat numerous times - fade to end ##)
INTRO: C
Em F Em C
The sky is turning and longing for something far away
Em F Em F
The moon's a tear drop, see it slowly, as he falls away
Em F
Miles running down a face
Em Am
Everything's bound to change
Em Am
It's bound to change
PRE-CHORUS:
C Am
Day breaks of tenderness
C
So hold me here like this
Dm F
So still and quiet as if it might
CHORUS:
C
Keep you happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
C
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
F C
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
Em F Em C
A feeling has me and tells me it will never stay
Em F Em F
Your heart beats miles now, I feel them as they fly away
Em F
Close gets so far away
Em Am
Close gets so far
PRE-CHORUS:
C Am
Day breaks of loneliness
C
I'd weather all of this
Dm F
If I could find a place where I'd
CHORUS:
C
Keep you happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
C
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
F Em
Oh, oh, oh, keep you happy
BRIDGE:
Am F Em Am
Why do we pretend there is something to hold onto?
F
See how my world fell in
Em Dm
I was trying to hold you
Em Dm C
I was trying to hold you
Em F Em C
Night is a gypsy who tells me he will never stay
Em F Em F
Miles are like heart beats, I know them as they fly away
Em F
See how they fly away
Em Am
See as I fly
PRE-CHORUS:
C Am
Day breaks of restlessness
C
I'm filled with all of this
Dm F
But deep inside, what will I find
CHORUS:
C
To keep me happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep me happy
C
Oh, oh, oh, keep me happy
F
Oh, oh, oh, keep me happy
Oh, oh, oh
OUTRO: C F (## repeat numerous times - fade to end ##)
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