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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.
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 :^ /  )
 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}
Dont forget Patti Griffn
Yes...Tiff, Emilylou, and Lucinda.

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

Is it just me or does anyone else hear bits and pieces of the Jayhawks' "I'd Run Away?"
Bleyfusz wrote:

Same here!
 


That reminds me......time for Old Blind Dogs Tifty Annie

Old Blind Dogs - Mill O' Tifty  



Tift - aha...!!!
She's so good.
 Leslie wrote:
Good enough on first listen to make me stop working to see who was singing this.
 
Same here!

Good enough on first listen to make me stop working to see who was singing this.