Passenger - A Thousand Matches

      Capo 4

(Picking pattern throughout the entire song. Every first C has a hammer on the D string like below)
e|-------------------|                                            e|---------------------|
B|-----x---------x---|                                            B|-----1-----------1---|
G|-----------x-------|                                            G|------------0--------|
D|-----x-------x-----|                                            D|-----0h2-------2-----|
A|-x-------x---------|                                            A|-3--------3----------|
E|-------------------|                                            E|---------------------|


[Intro]
C - C - Fmaj7 - G
C - C - Fmaj7 - G
Am - Em - Fmaj7 - G
C - C - C - C 


[Verse 1]
C                             Fmaj7          G              C           Fmaj7       G
Lying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed away
         C                              Fmaj7         G
Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said
         C                         Fmaj7       G
"There's got to be a better way"
               C                                 Fmaj7       G
She said "You light a thousand matches, when you finally set fire,
         C             Fmaj7    G
well you 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


[Interlude]
C - C - C - C


[Verse 2]
          C                              Fmaj7           G               C            Fmaj7       G
I hit the wall in frustration, the conversation had been circling for days
                C                           Fmaj7           G                         
She said "Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been    
    C                                Fmaj7       G
supportive in the best of ways"
       C                       Fmaj7     G            C          Fmaj7       G
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
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
And she said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go"


[Interlude]
C - Fmaj7 - G
C - C - Fmaj7 - G
Am - Em - Fmaj7 - G
C - C - C - C 


[Verse 3]
C                                Fmaj7        Gadd11        C          Fmaj7      Gadd11
  She handed me a stone in the  perfect shape of a heart
              C                          Fmaj7            Gadd11              C           Fmaj7     Gadd11
She said "I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after dark
        C                      Fmaj7         Gadd11               C         Fmaj7       Gadd11
In some faceless hotel room 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


[Chorus]
        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
And she said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go"
C - C - C - C


[Bridge]
Fmaj7              G             C          
     Sometimes you tear it all apart
Fmaj7            G            C          
     to see the wood from the trees.
Fmaj7          G                 C G Am   (quick walk down from C to Am)
     Sometimes you break your own   heart
Fmaj7      G        C
        to set yourself free


[Interlude]
C - Fmaj7 - G
C - C - Fmaj7 - G
Am - Em - Fmaj7 - G
C - C - C - C 


[Verse 4]
C                                   Fmaj7         Gadd11            C          Fmaj7     Gadd11
   I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our tone
C                             Fmaj7          Gadd11                      C       Fmaj7     Gadd11
Words finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd grown
              C                                 Fmaj7       Gadd11            C       Fmaj7    Gadd11
See, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to grow
     Am              Em              Fmaj7                G                     
We reluctantly agreed, that when you love someone, you've got to let them go