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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- 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
Stray Paper
Em 022000
G 320003
A x0222x
D xx0232
Bm x2443x
Capo on 3
Verse 1:
Em
I've got a postcard
D A
with no address
Em
A picture of Houston
D A
in a creased up mess
Em
Just to remind me
D
That it all went wrong
G A
Just to beat me up – just to turn me on
Chorus:
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning my hands
Verse 2:
Em
Cigarettes in the glove box
D A
with the classified ads
Em
ashes and silver
D A
worn into your hands
Em
“I gotta see you”
D
on a burnt napkin
G A
gas station quarters, I gotta see you again
Chorus:
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning in my hands
Verse 3:
Em
Somewhere there's a letter
D A
that I never sent
Em
it used to read pretty
D A
now it's empty as
Em
that night in the headlights
D
with the blankets passed, Was it something to
G A
you, babe? Was it always just
Chorus:
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning in my hands
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning in my hands
G A
Burning in my hands
G A
Burning in my hands
(Solo over verse chords, end on Em)
Stray Paper
Em 022000
G 320003
A x0222x
D xx0232
Bm x2443x
Capo on 3
Verse 1:
Em
I've got a postcard
D A
with no address
Em
A picture of Houston
D A
in a creased up mess
Em
Just to remind me
D
That it all went wrong
G A
Just to beat me up – just to turn me on
Chorus:
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning my hands
Verse 2:
Em
Cigarettes in the glove box
D A
with the classified ads
Em
ashes and silver
D A
worn into your hands
Em
“I gotta see you”
D
on a burnt napkin
G A
gas station quarters, I gotta see you again
Chorus:
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning in my hands
Verse 3:
Em
Somewhere there's a letter
D A
that I never sent
Em
it used to read pretty
D A
now it's empty as
Em
that night in the headlights
D
with the blankets passed, Was it something to
G A
you, babe? Was it always just
Chorus:
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning in my hands
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
D Bm
Stray paper
G A
Burning in my hands
G A
Burning in my hands
G A
Burning in my hands
(Solo over verse chords, end on Em)
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