The title track of Tift Merritt’s Stitch of the World zooms out from the more personal focus of the earlier songs and takes a more metaphysical look at the world.
I’ll let Merritt explain the song’s origin in her own words:
The inspiration came when I was in California and had rented a cabin for my 40th birthday. I was looking out the window at one of those surreal California sea cliff views where the stars and the trees were just so startlingly beautiful that it didn’t look real. It looked like some of those old felt cut-outs where you could create your own landscapes. I just started to think about how it looked stitched together and how lucky I was that I was stitched into the picture as well. I asked myself what all of these invisible stitches that hold us together and to each other might look like. Where are all of those invisible seams? Which ones are in our control and which ones are not?
Meet Me In Montauk 