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Tift Merritt — All The Reasons We Don't Have To Fight
Album: See You On The Moon
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Released: 2010
Length: 4:33
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We used to sleep real late, play our records loud
Times we were broke, we'd laugh about it
Sometimes we'd just leave town, go down to the shore
Watch the waves close out, just to be close, just to be close
I don't want to fight anymore
About childish things we did before
I didn't mean what I said last night
I love you more than who is right and wrong
I want to stay and I made this song
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight

These words we shout, so who's to say
Where they will go when they fall away?
Maybe they hang around with lonely kids
With a balled up fist, saying "you did this, you did this"
i don't want to fight anymore
About what we lost or things we swore
I didn't mean what I said last night
I love you more than who is right and wrong
I'm gonna stay and made this song
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight

The morning light goes red to gray
On what we've broken and thrown away
If I could, I just know how to walk away from my pride
Could you help me out? Can we put it back, put it back/
I don't want to fight anymore
I don't even know what it started for
I didn't mean what I said last night
I love you more than who is right and wrong
I stayed up late and I made this song
Of all the reasons we don't have to fight
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Her name reminds me of The Old Blind Dogs: Mill O' Tifty. Not that that is at all significant, just the way the synapses click.
Posted 10 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Nice enough but not original enough to be given too much credit. Add Cowboy Junkies to the comparisons...too similar to too many other artists out there (which is, of course, the norm now days :^ /  )
Posted 11 years ago by dragon1952    [ Reply ]
 handyrae wrote:
Is it just me or does anyone else hear bits and pieces of the Jayhawks' "I'd Run Away?"

 

Yes, I do. This is very good on its own merits.   {#Music}
Posted 11 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
Dont forget Patti Griffn
Posted 11 years ago by Rmike    [ Reply ]
Yes...Tiff, Emilylou, and Lucinda.

Now there is your Austin City Limits line up for a show.
Posted 11 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
In her voice I hear Emmy-Lou Harris, and the music reminds me somewhat of Lucinda Williams. I dig it, baby!
Posted 12 years ago by meinthecorner    [ Reply ]
Her voice is so expressive, so warm, so real...kinda Martha Wainwright-sounding...I LIKE IT!  Thanks, RP!
Posted 12 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Saw her open for Andrew Bird this spring.  She was great!  Definitely worth seeing live if you get the chance.
Posted 12 years ago by membeth    [ Reply ]
Hey Cuz! If you're listening, always love hearing you....
Posted 12 years ago by billymann    [ Reply ]
Nice, I thought it was Kasey Chambers at first.
Posted 12 years ago by jim1964    [ Reply ]
Meh...{#Yawn}
Posted 12 years ago by dragonlady    [ Reply ]
Patti Griffin's long lost sister?
Posted 12 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Smooth vocals and a little screaming guitars - works for me.
Posted 13 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
I think I like this one better than the other song of hers ('Mixtape'?)

Posted 13 years ago by domine-astronomy    [ Reply ]
Is it just me or does anyone else hear bits and pieces of the Jayhawks' "I'd Run Away?"
Posted 13 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
A Bleyfusz wrote:

Same here!
 


Posted 13 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
That reminds me......time for Old Blind Dogs Tifty Annie

Old Blind Dogs - Mill O' Tifty  



Posted 13 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Tift - aha...!!!
Posted 13 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
She's so good.
Posted 13 years ago by teapot    [ Reply ]
 Leslie wrote:
Good enough on first listen to make me stop working to see who was singing this.
 
Same here!

Posted 13 years ago by Bleyfusz    [ Reply ]
Good enough on first listen to make me stop working to see who was singing this.
Posted 14 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]