-----------------------------------------------------------------A Thousand Matches - Passenger (Mike Rosenburg)----------------------------------------------------------------Tabbed by Tom Nichols October 2013Email: tom@tomnichols.comBased on his recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RncRYO9dbSQTuning: Standard, Capo on 4Notes:Tab designed to allow fingerpicking (original) or strumming (simpler)The Fmaj7 is easiest to play if your thumb holds down the bottom E stringFor the Gadd11:Fingerpicking - notes in brackets are not plucked so you need not hold the stringsStrumming - it will sound more natural to hold the full chordChords: (shapes relative to capo)C Fmaj7 Gadd11 Am Em G0 0 (3) 0 0 31 1 1 1 0 30 0 0 2 0 02 3 0 2 2 03 3 (2) 0 2 23 1 3 0 0 3For fingerpicking, where I have added notes in brackets, they are optional and canbe taken out for variation.Riff#1In this riff, only the bottom E of the Em is plucked / strummedC Em Fmaj7 Gadd11e|---------------------------------|------------------------------------| B|-----1--------(1)----1-----------|-------1---------------1----------1-| G|-----------0------------0--------|-------------0----------------0-----| D|-----0h2-----2-------2-----------|-------2-------2-------0--------0---| A|-3-------3-------3-------3-------|------------------------------------| E|-----------------------------0---|---1-------1-------3-------3--------|Riff #2Am Em Fmaj7 Ge|------------------------------------------------------------------| B|-----1--------(1)----0---------0-----1---------1-----3--------(3)-| G|-----------0---------------0---------------0---------------0------| D|-----2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0----| A|-0-------0--------------------------------------------------------| E|-----------------0-------0--------1------1-------3-------3--------|IntroRiff#1 is played three times, Riff#2 once before returning to 2 bars of CVerse 1C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11 CLying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed awayEm Fmaj7 Gadd11C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I saidC Em Fmaj7 Gadd11"There's got to be a better way"C Em Fmaj7 Gadd11She said "You light a thousand matches when you finally set fire while youC Em Fmaj7 Gadd11run awayAm Em Fmaj7 G CSo why'd you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stayI hit the wall in frustration - the conversation had been circling for daysShe said "Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been supportive in the best of ways"We're laughing and crying like mad men dying in the snowFor just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go.ChorusFmaj7 C G Ce|-------------------------------------------------------------------| B|-----1---------1-----1---------1-----3---------3-------1---------1-| G|-----------0---------------0---------------0-----------------0-----| D|-----3-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0---------2-------2---| A|-----------------3-------3-------------------------3-------3-------| E|-1-------1-----------------------3-------3-------------------------|She said "Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know."And I said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someonesometimes you gotta let 'em go"BridgeRiff #1*3, Riff #2, 2 bars of CVerse 2She handed me a stone in the perfect shape of a heartShe said "I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after darkIn some faceless hotel room where you seem to lose everything you own"She didn't mean it how it sounded, what she meant was she would stay and I would goI said "Love, you know I love you so. When you love someone well you've got to let them knowShe said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someonesometimes you gotta let them go"RefrainRiff#1 *3Sometimes you tear it all apart, to see the wood from the trees.Sometimes you break your ownC Gadd11 Ame|----------------------------------------------| B|----1-------1------1--------(1)-----1---------| G|-------------------------0----------------0---| D|----2-------0------2-------2--------2---------| A|3-------2------0-------0--------0-------0-----| E|--------------------------------------------0-|heartFmaj7 Gadd11e|----------------------------------| B|-----1---------1------1---------1-| G|-----------0----------------0-----| return to Riff #1 D|-----3-------3--------0-------0---| A|----------------------------------| E|-1-------1--------3-------3-------|to set yourself freeVerse 3 (quietly - single plucking / strums)I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our toneWords finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd becomeSee, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to growWe reluctantly agreed that when you love someone, you've got to let them go
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