A Thousand Matches – Passenger
Nghệ sĩ: Passenger
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Artist: Passenger
Song: A Thousand Matches
Email: [email protected]
(Based on this recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RncRYO9dbSQ)
One of my live performancesbased on this tab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSTaCu5BFtc&t=3091s
Tuning: Standard, Capo on 4
Notes
Tab designed to allow fingerpicking (original) or strumming (simpler)
The is easiest to play if your thumb holds down the bottom E string
For the [ch]Gadd11[/ch]:
Fingerpicking - notes in brackets are not plucked so you need not hold the strings
Strumming - it will sound more natural to hold the full chord
Suggestion on learning this: learn the two main Riffs and practice them independently before trying to sing at
the same time. When you have mastered the Riffs, it should be quite natural to approach the song by looking
at the lyrics only
shapes relative to capo
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
0 0 (3) 0 0 3
1 1 1 1 0 3
0 0 0 2 0 0
2 3 0 2 2 0
3 3 (2) 0 2 2
3 1 3 0 0 3
For fingerpicking, where I have added notes in brackets, they are optional and can
be taken out for variation.
Riff 1
In this riff, only the bottom of the is plucked / strummed
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
e|---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
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 #2
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
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--------|
Intro - Instrumental
Riff#1 is played three times, Riff#2 once before returning to 2 bars of
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
Lying on the mattress 'cos my friend's crazy sister took my bed away
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
Sleeping she looked like an actress, in theory and in practice, I said
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
"There's got to be a better way"
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
She said "You light a thousand matches and you finally set fire while you
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
run away
ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
So why'd you go and do it when you knew that you would go and I would stay
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
I hit the wall in frustration - the conversation had been circling for days
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] ...[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
She said "Don't take it out on him, for the wall has always been supportive in the best of ways"
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
We're laughing and crying like mad men dying in the snow
ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
For just one second it was funny that she would have to stay and I would go.
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
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-------------------------|
ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
She said "Love, you know I love you so; when you love someone well you've got to let them know."
ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
And I said "Nothing's changed I love you the same, but when you love someone sometimes you gotta let 'em go"
Riff #1*3, Riff #2, 2 bars of C
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
She handed me a stone in the perfect shape of a heart
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
She said "I'm gonna take this home for I know you'll only lose it somewhere after dark
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
In some faceless hotel room where you seem to lose everything you own"
ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
She didn't mean it how it sounded, what she meant was she would stay and I would go
ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
I said "Love, you know I love you so. When you love someone well you've got to let them know
ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
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)
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
Sometimes you tear it all apart
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
to see the wood from the trees.
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
Sometimes you break your own
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----1-------1------1--------(1)-----1---------|
G|-------------------------0----------------0---|
D|----2-------0------2-------2--------2---------|
A|3-------2------0-------0--------0-------0-----|
E|--------------------------------------------0-|
h e a r t
ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
e|----------------------------------|
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 free
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
(quietly - single plucking / strums)
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
I walked her to the station, hesitation in our movements and our tone
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
Words finally left after they realized how uncomfortable they'd become
ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]Gadd11[/ch
See, what you want and what you need, well they seldomly succeed to grow
ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Fmaj7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
We reluctantly agreed that when you love someone, you've got to let them go