The Letter – Passenger
Nghệ sĩ: Passenger
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Attempt to capture chords for the track from Passenger's new album
One for the Road (Songs from the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry the Musical)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFO_XsGfOjA
I used Mike's live stream from 14 Sep 2025 for reference
(even though the audio was glitching during this song).
Starts at approximately 45:50 during the live stream
Capo 4 to play these shapes with the original recording.
The C/B is just a passing chord he uses when moving between
and
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3x0013
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Intro
x2
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Dear girl in the garage
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
I owe you the full story
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Years ago I buried my son
ch]Fsus2[/ch
I found him hanging where he'd hung
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
Himself out like an old pair of jeans
ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
It's the worst thing that I've ever seen
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Fsus2[/ch
And the first thing I see when I dream
ch]G[/ch
So I don't do much sleeping now
ch]E[/ch
I just keep wondering how
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch
I lost the only thing I can't replace
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
Silently screaming in space
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
N.C. [ch]Fsus2[/ch]
And it destroyed our marriage
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
Threw it from the top story
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Maureen couldn't leave the house
ch]Fsus2[/ch
She just stood there looking out
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
Through curtains like he'd be home soon
ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
And the worst thing was that I knew
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Fsus2[/ch
She'd see him in all that I do
ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
She'd see him in the way I walked
ch]E7[/ch
And hear him in the words I talked
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch
And catch him in the shadows on my face
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
We went silently drifting through space
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Then there was Queenie
ch]G[/ch
She said I shouldn't take the blame
ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
She was soft and warm and all the things I lack
ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
She helped me carry the heaviest burden
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch
That a father can have upon his back
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
And I never thanked her for that
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
ch]Fsus2[/ch
But I searched for courage
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
Like my father did before me
ch]Fsus2[/ch
In the bottom of a whiskey glass
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Spiralling and spinning fast
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
And bleeding out with every drink they'd pour me
ch]G[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
It was the worst way to deal with my pain
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Fsus2[/ch
But the first thing that I turned to that didn't turn away
ch]G[/ch
Then one night when I was drunk and hurt
ch]E7[/ch
I vandalised my place of work
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch
And lay down all broken and disgraced
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]G5[/ch
Wishing I could vanish in to space
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Then there was Queenie
ch]G[/ch
She stood and took the blame
ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
She was kind and brave and all the things I lack
ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
She took the bullet for me, she took the burden
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch
She lost her job and never came back
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
Oh, and I never thanked her for that
Instrumental
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Dear girl in the garage
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
Now you know the full story
ch]Fsus2[/ch
Four months ago I left my home
ch]Fsus2[/ch
To walk to Queenie all alone
ch]Am7[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch
Not for love, I've only ever loved my wife
ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]Gsus4[/ch
But she helped me long ago and that is why
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Fsus2[/ch
I knew I had to go I had to try
ch]Gsus4[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch
And I never would've walked if we never had've talked
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Fsus2[/ch
And the sun wouldn't have shone through the cracks
ch]Fsus2[/ch] [ch]Asus2[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Asus2[/ch] [ch]A7sus2[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
And I'd just like to thank you for that