Intro
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Lying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed away
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Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said
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"There's got to be a better way"
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She said "You light a thousand matches and you finally set fire while you
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run away
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So why'd you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stay
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I hit the wall in frustration - the conversation had been circling for days
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She said "Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been supportive in the best of ways"
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We're laughing and crying like mad men dying in the snow
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For just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go.
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She said "Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know."
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And I said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go"
Bridge
Riff #1*3, Riff #2, 2 bars of CVerse 2CEmFmaj7 Gadd11 CEmFmaj7 Gadd11
She handed me a stone in the perfect shape of a heart
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She said "I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after dark
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In some faceless hotel room where you seem to lose everything you own"
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She didn't mean it how it sounded, what she meant was she would stay and I would go
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I said "Love, you know I love you so. When you love someone well you've got to let them know
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She said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let them go"
[Refrain]
(Riff#1 *3)
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Sometimes you tear it all apart
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to see the wood from the trees.
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Sometimes you break your own
Verse 3
(quietly - single plucking / strums)
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I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our tone
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Words finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd become
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See, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to grow
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We reluctantly agreed that when you love someone, you've got to let them go
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