{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1935401,"song":"A Thousand Matches","artist":"Passenger","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1935401-a-thousand-matches-chords-by-passenger/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1935401?type=chord","rating":4.8205,"votes":27,"content":"Capo 4\r\n\r\n[tab](Picking pattern throughout the entire song. Every first C has a hammer on the D string like below)\r\ne|-------------------|                                            e|---------------------|\r\nB|-----x---------x---|                                            B|-----1-----------1---|\r\nG|-----------x-------|                                            G|------------0--------|\r\nD|-----x-------x-----|                                            D|-----0h2-------2-----|\r\nA|-x-------x---------|                                            A|-3--------3----------|\r\nE|-------------------|                                            E|---------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] - [ch]Em[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] \r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed away[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"There's got to be a better way\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe said \"You light a thousand matches, when you finally set fire,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwell you run away\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo why'd you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stay[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI hit the wall in frustration, the conversation had been circling for days[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                         \r\nShe said \"Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been    [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nsupportive in the best of ways\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe're laughing and crying like mad men dying in the snow[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI said \"Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd she said \"Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] - [ch]Em[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] \r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]        [ch]Gadd11[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]      [ch]Gadd11[/ch]\r\n  She handed me a stone in the  perfect shape of a heart[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]            [ch]Gadd11[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]     [ch]Gadd11[/ch]\r\nShe said \"I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]         [ch]Gadd11[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]Gadd11[/ch]\r\nIn some faceless hotel room you seem to lose everything you own\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe didn't mean it how it sounded, what she meant was she would stay and I would go[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI said \"Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd she said \"Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go\"[/tab]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab][ch]Fmaj7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]          \r\n     Sometimes you tear it all apart[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fmaj7[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          \r\n     to see the wood from the trees.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fmaj7[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]   (quick walk down from [ch]C[/ch] to [ch]Am[/ch])\r\n     Sometimes you break your own   heart[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fmaj7[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\n        to set yourself free[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] - [ch]Em[/ch] - [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] - [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] \r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]         [ch]Gadd11[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]     [ch]Gadd11[/ch]\r\n   I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our tone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]          [ch]Gadd11[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]     [ch]Gadd11[/ch]\r\nWords finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd grown[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]       [ch]Gadd11[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]    [ch]Gadd11[/ch]\r\nSee, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to grow[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]Fmaj7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                     \r\nWe reluctantly agreed, that when you love someone, you've got to let them go[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo 4\n\n\n\n\n[Intro]\nC - C - Fmaj7 - G\nC - C - Fmaj7 - G\nAm - Em - Fmaj7 - G\nC - C - C - C \n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nC - C - C - C\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nC - Fmaj7 - G\nC - C - Fmaj7 - G\nAm - Em - Fmaj7 - G\nC - C - C - C \n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\nC - C - C - C\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nC - Fmaj7 - G\nC - C - Fmaj7 - G\nAm - Em - Fmaj7 - G\nC - C - C - C \n\n\n[Verse 4]","chords":["C","D","B","G","A","E","Fmaj7","Am","Em","Gadd11"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"Fmaj7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,0,3,4,2,0],"frets":[1,-1,2,2,1,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}