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 - Still Not Home
INTRO: C
F
Jesus at the table in the early morn'
C
"Dad, I've been thinking I got to get born
F
Got to mean something heavy to somebody somewhere
C
I don't know who I am, but I can't stay here"
G C
I didn't mean to stand up, I didn't mean to daydream
G C
I didn't want to hear it calling my name
F C
Regular life don't suit me at all
G F C
Oh, I gotta get going, I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I try so hard and I'm still not home
F
Robert Johnson was trembling, calling for help
C
At the edge of the field talking to himself
F
Not a woman, not a dollar, not even his soul
C
Feels as good in his hands as that old guitar
G C
He say, "Nobody sees how desperate I'm torn
G C
I feel like I'm crazy the way that I'm going
F C
Don't know if it's from up high or way down low
G F C
Oh, I try so hard and I'm still not home
G F C
Hey, I gotta get going and I'm still not home
BRIDGE:
F C
You know that ache's grown so familiar
F C
How many times I got to shoo it from my door
F C
Putting the shine on the far side of the river
G
Oh, come round to bruise me up a little bit more
C
Come round to bruise me up just a little bit more
INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F C
F
One day I'm gonna light like a season of green
C
And my heart is gonna run like a flying machine
F
Lipstick and a nickel in the pocket of my coat
C
And I won't even care if I never come back
G C
All the windows open and the wind like wheels
G C
Nobody can tell you the way that it feels
F C
Oh, but lord, if you could see the way I'm gonna soar
G F C
Oh, I gotta get going, I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I best be going, I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I try so hard and I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I gotta get going, I'm still not home
INTRO: C
F
Jesus at the table in the early morn'
C
"Dad, I've been thinking I got to get born
F
Got to mean something heavy to somebody somewhere
C
I don't know who I am, but I can't stay here"
G C
I didn't mean to stand up, I didn't mean to daydream
G C
I didn't want to hear it calling my name
F C
Regular life don't suit me at all
G F C
Oh, I gotta get going, I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I try so hard and I'm still not home
F
Robert Johnson was trembling, calling for help
C
At the edge of the field talking to himself
F
Not a woman, not a dollar, not even his soul
C
Feels as good in his hands as that old guitar
G C
He say, "Nobody sees how desperate I'm torn
G C
I feel like I'm crazy the way that I'm going
F C
Don't know if it's from up high or way down low
G F C
Oh, I try so hard and I'm still not home
G F C
Hey, I gotta get going and I'm still not home
BRIDGE:
F C
You know that ache's grown so familiar
F C
How many times I got to shoo it from my door
F C
Putting the shine on the far side of the river
G
Oh, come round to bruise me up a little bit more
C
Come round to bruise me up just a little bit more
INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F C
F
One day I'm gonna light like a season of green
C
And my heart is gonna run like a flying machine
F
Lipstick and a nickel in the pocket of my coat
C
And I won't even care if I never come back
G C
All the windows open and the wind like wheels
G C
Nobody can tell you the way that it feels
F C
Oh, but lord, if you could see the way I'm gonna soar
G F C
Oh, I gotta get going, I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I best be going, I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I try so hard and I'm still not home
G F C
Oh, I gotta get going, I'm still not home
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