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Love Soldiers On: Concert At The Historic Playmakers Theatre

by Tift Merritt

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Dusty man, there goes my dusty old dusty old man. He loves my mouth, he loves my hips Piece of my mind don't make no difference He don't bow down and don't make plans He's mean as a snake, he's my dusty man He say Love me enough to right my wrongs. Love me until the scars are gone. Young man think he seen know everything My baby's broke in long and lean More real living than that young boy could stand You take a young boy, I keep my dusty old man I say Love me enough to right my wrongs. Love me until the scars are gone. Dusty man, here come my dusty old dusty old man. Calloused hand and tear stained heart The world can't won't hand you what you want Sometimes all you can do is say goddam Give your love to your dusty old man Singing Love me enough to right my wrongs. Love me until the scars are gone.
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My Boat 04:33
My boat, is being made to order. Right now, it's at the builder, my boat. My friends, room for all of my friends I'm serious about this, my boat. George, Gary, Chuck and Jim, room enough for all of them, And my baby, I won't go without my baby. Stories, a place on board for stories, My own and everybody's, going on and on. Short ones, true ones, and the made up, The ones still being written on my boat. Cherries, chicken, cheese and wine, everything good my friends like And my baby, on my boat. No one will be denied on my boat, on my boat. No getting ahead or falling behind on my boat, on my boat. Just having a real big time on my boat. Singing, eating and laughing down on my boat. You can do whatever you want, on my boat. We may go a little way down the coast on my boat. Listening to the The Rolling Stones on my boat. I've always wanted a trip like that - But if it don't work out with my boat, my boat. No one will be denied on my boat, on my boat. No getting ahead or falling behind on my boat, on my boat. Just having a real big time on my boat on my boat. No one will be denied on my boat, on my boat, on my boat.
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Icarus 03:54
I found him out in the field up there His clothes were torn, glue in his hair Feather down over everything On the ground, his broken wings. I washed his hair and I held his bones I nursed the way he felt alone Keeping watch over his fitful sleep To Caught him falling out of dreams Oh Icarus There's a wing down in each of us Faster than the speed of sound inside Everything flies A rush of breath, a turn of touch The up and down arch of loving so much The way your heart will race and rise A tear handing in long, slow dive Oh Icarus There's a wing down in each of us Faster than the speed of sound inside Everything flies Night comes on in fits and stalls Twilight colors looking on As all the evening dust kicks up A small hope lands where doubt once was Oh Icarus There's a wing down in each of us Faster than the speed of sound inside Everything flies
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Light on the water makes it look easy to be free I dream ways back to you and you a way back to me Those days rush back, rolling in Like the eastern light like on the tide changing And there’s my shadow is waiting for you like it always used to Hanging around and looking behind for you come up beside me In the eastern light How did we lose each other like something at sea Was I so hard to love and so love let go of me Out in the eastern light on the open wind Is broken love ever forgiven And there’s my shadow waiting for you like it always will do Hanging around dragging behind me so that you can find me. In the eastern light. Eastern light, fill my eyes so no one knows I’m crying Eastern light, my love is gone despite all of the trying Eastern light, can you see the way I’ve come apart When I think of how we did each others hearts Light on the water makes it look easy to be free I see it on your face and your arm around me Somewhere in the eastern light, I am holding you Across the eastern light, will you hold me too And there’s my shadow waiting for you like it always will do Hanging around and looking behind me for you to come home beside me. In the eastern light.
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Late night city after a train A corner dressed in flyers and rain Something came over me, something came over me. Without asking, it came right in To my bones, through my skin Something came over me, the way it came over me. Something so loud without a sound at all Like a sweet old song, playing there all along And it came over me. At lot like a seeing a ghost you know Or the beat in the water way down low Something came over me, something came over me. A thread in a thread, I felt complete Like lightening made by summer heat Something came over me, something came over me. Something so loud without a sound at all Like a sweet old song, playing there all along And it came over me I forgot my heart had room like that Open spaces through all the cracks Something came over me, something come over me. I stood there thinking how good it is Wasn't any different than a night like this Something came over me, something came over me. Something so loud without a sound at all Like a sweet old song, playing there all along, and it came over me.
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Bruised Up and skinny as a stray No one I know so underpaid Been around the block about a 100 times today Love soldiers on, love soldiers on. There’s nothing you can do, love soldiers on. Lock it out and don’t return its call, Swear you’ve never seen its face at all, Throw it in the river, lose it in the storm, It will show up in its bandages tomorrow at your door. I know you’ve been hurt before, but it’s beat up even more. Scars you’ve never seen before, from every country and every war. You think that love is lost. You’re swear you’ve run it off. But it hardly asks for nothing, it’s got courage like the wind Out there in the streetlights waiting to come in Love soldiers on, love soldiers on. There’s noting you can do, love soldiers on.
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I would give anything to play a concert right now. To sit as close together as possible and keep time with Eric Heywood on guitar, golden-throated Daughter of Swords Alexandra Sauser-Monnig singing. To feel the stage underfoot in time, the lights warm, the air move with sound. To hear a crowd clap and laugh. To put arms around each other after a good song. I forgot this concert was even recorded; I’m so happy it was. What a wonderful memory. I hope it brings you some joy until our jubilant reunions.
-Tift Merritt

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released April 10, 2020

Tift Merritt: Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Eric Heywood: Pedal Steel & Guitar
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig: Vocals

Recorded Live at The Historic Playmakers Theatre in Chapel Hill, NC on January 20-21, 2017

Audio Engineer: Luc Suèr, Mike Westbrook
Live Sound: Luc Suèr
Recording and Mixing: Mike Westbrook
Mastered by Nicholas T. Petersen
Photography: Josh Steadman
Design: Nathan Golub

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Tift Merritt Raleigh, North Carolina

Raised in North Carolina, Tift Merritt has released five full-length albums and two live records,
including a recent reissue of her debut album Bramble Rose earlier this year. The New Yorker
has called Tift Merritt “the bearer of a proud tradition of distaff country soul that reaches back to
artists like Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry.” Emmylou Harris calls her a diamond in a coal
mine.
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