Tift Merritt "One Good Thing"
from SONGS FOR SEX
A benefit Compilation by NOISE FOR NOW and the Artist Rights Alliance
100% of net proceeds to charity.
Lyrics and Music by Tift Merritt
Performed and Produced by Tift Merritt
Recorded and Mixed by Chris Boerner
Recorded July 28 in North Carolina
Mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio
Published by Hipgnosis
Songwriter represented by ASCAP
SONGS FOR SEX Executive Produced by: Amelia Bauer, Tift Merritt, Lisette Rioux, Victoria Roe
Cover Artwork by: Najeebah Al-Ghadban
Design by: Ben Tousley
Special thanks to: Artist Rights Alliance, Lance Banks, Zoë Blilie, Marissa DeVito-Seigal, Lynn Elliot, Jen Jacobsen, Grandstand Media, Samantha Kirby-Yoh, Sheila Lewis, Shazila Mohammed, Eleni Psaltis, Janine Small, Dane Sundseth, Thomas Manzi, Elsa Vivero, All of the artists and their management teams for their support, and to all those fighting for Reproductive Justice worldwide.
LYRICS:
Spent my whole life building these walls,
In a minute you realize, they’re gonna have to all come off.
It’s gonna take a little time, it's gonna take a little time,
But baby, I’m trying, you know I’m really gonna try.
Living at the end of the world,
There’s only one thing to do.
Now they wanna take that away too --
But you know moving in the dark is all that people can really do.
Who would take this pleasure from me?
Everything tender, everything free,
One good thing, we could all agree,
Leave it alone with my baby and me.
Who walks around thinking only they can see,
What I’m supposed to do, what a woman’s supposed to be?
Thinking God is on speed dial, calling shame on me,
They must be some kind of some kind of some kind of lonely.
To take this pleasure from me,
Where everything's tender, everything's free,
One good thing, we could all agree,
Just leave it alone with my baby and me.