A Thousand Matches by Passenger
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro
Riff#1 is played three times, Riff#2 once before returning to 2 bars of C
Verse 1
C                          Em Fmaj7          Gadd11         C          Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Lying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed away
         C                           Em Fmaj7        Gadd11
Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said
        C                         Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
"There's got to be a better way"
               C                           Em  Fmaj7       Gadd11
She said "You light a thousand matches and you finally set fire while you
C              Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
run away
   Am               Em             Fmaj7               G                       C
So why'd you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stay
          C                            Em  Fmaj7           Gadd11       C            Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
I hit the wall in frustration - the conversation had been circling for days
                C                       Em  Fmaj7           Gadd11  C                       ...Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
She said "Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been    supportive in the best of ways"
       C                       Em  Fmaj7     Gadd11           C         Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
We're laughing and crying like       mad men dying in the snow
             Am                 Em        Fmaj7             G                     C
For just one second it was funny     that she would have to stay and I would go.
Chorus
   Fmaj7           C               G                 C
         Fmaj7      C      G        C            Fmaj7        C           G               C
She said "Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know."
            Fmaj7        C      G             C             Fmaj7            C             G               C
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 C
Verse 2
C                            Em  Fmaj7     Gadd11          C       Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
  She handed me a stone in the   perfect shape of a heart
              C                      Em  Fmaj7         Gadd11                  C         Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
She said "I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after dark
        C                        Em  Fmaj7         Gadd11               C       Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
In some faceless hotel room where you seem to lose everything you own"
             Am           Em                Fmaj7               G                     C
She didn't mean it how it sounded, what she meant was she would stay and I would go
       Fmaj7      C      G            C           Fmaj7        C             G                    C
I said "Love, you know I love you so.    When you love someone   well you've got to let them know
         Fmaj7             C    G            C                  Fmaj7        C             G                 C
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)
C               Em Fmaj7             Gadd11
     Sometimes you tear it all apart
C           Em  Fmaj7                Gadd11
     to see the wood from the trees.
C              Em  Fmaj7             Gadd11
     Sometimes you break your own
 
Verse 3
(quietly - single plucking / strums)
  C                        Em  Fmaj7             Gadd11                  C   Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
I walked her to the station,   hesitation in our movements and our tone
C                        Em   Fmaj7        Gadd11                        C   Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
Words finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd become
              C                              Em  Fmaj7    Gadd11            C   Em Fmaj7 Gadd11
See, what you want and what you need, well they  seldomly succeed to grow
     Am          Em                 Fmaj7                G                     C
We reluctantly agreed that when you love someone, you've got to let them go